Students carry weight of mattresses in silent protest

Sexual assault survivors and advocates carried mattresses covered in the accounts of their experiences with gender-based violence in a student-led demonstration Wednesday. The event was inspired by Emma Sulkowicz, a Columbia University student who lost her disciplinary case against the man she claimed raped her in a university dorm room two years ago.

Test of Strength: ROTC Ranger Challenge 2014

SAN DIEGO — The UCLA cadets went to sleep at 9 p.m. and woke up three hours before sunrise. By 2 p.m. they had sprinted, jogged, climbed and hauled equipment for more than eight miles up and down steep brush- and dirt-covered terrain, most of it while carrying more than 45 pounds of military gear, […]

USAC Special Election Results

Results of the fall undergraduate student government special election were announced in Meyerhoff Park Friday afternoon. Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed, a fourth-year political science student, was elected the first transfer student representative on USAC. Her campaign partner Sofia Moreno Haq was elected general representative 2. A constitutional amendment passed, and two ballot referendums failed because less than 20 […]

Hundreds gather at vigil to remember Santa Barbara victims

Hundreds of UCLA students, UC Santa Barbara alumni and other University of California community members gathered on Monday night in Royce Quad in solidarity with those affected by Friday’s shooting near UC Santa Barbara. University of California campuses held vigils across the state to honor them.