The Speech Team @UCLA secured multiple competition wins in its first year in existence.
The team secured its first-ever national recognition March 22 at the 2025 National Online Forensics Championship, where Alisha Hassanali, a Daily Bruin News contributor, won first place for informative speaking.

The Pediatric AIDS Coalition hosted its annual Dance Marathon on March 1, raising $55,041 total. Participants jumped and spun their way through “morale dances” and performances by UCLA student acts from 2 p.m.

Kaylee Johnson is open about her father’s far-right radicalization.
Johnson was featured in the documentary “Dear Kelly,” released Jan. 15 and directed by Andrew Callaghan – an independent journalist and creator of “Channel 5” on YouTube.

The destruction of Eliana Bernstein’s Pacific Palisades home also threatened the loss of her Westwood apartment.
Bernstein, a third-year political science student, said she moved into her apartment just a few days before the Jan.

This post was updated Feb. 19 at 10:34 p.m.
One person was detained after multiple pro-Palestine groups protested at UCLA on Tuesday.
 
Around 150 people gathered in Dickson Plaza around 2 p.m.

This post was updated Jan. 31 at 12:32 a.m.
“The majority of my family has nothing left back in Mexico,” said a UCLA biology student. “If they just started deporting us, we’ll just start from zero again.”
Undocumented students like them have faced growing fears of deportation following President Donald Trump’s inauguration Jan.

This post was updated Jan. 15 at 12:33 a.m.
580 Café, a not-for-profit organization located along Hilgard Avenue, is not just a basic needs resource for students.

This post was updated Jan. 12 at 11:49 p.m.
Students raised over $15,000 to support a chemistry senior lecturer who lost his home to the Los Angeles County wildfires. 
Laurence Lavelle announced in a Thursday classwide email that he lost his home, adding that the only clothes he owns are the ones he wore to work the previous day.

This post was updated Jan. 12 at 11:58 p.m.
Fires across Los Angeles County sparked unease among UCLA students and criticism of the university’s emergency response.

Hundreds of students, alumni, faculty and staff gathered at Covel Commons on Oct. 28 to celebrate Black excellence at UCLA.
UCLA’s annual Black Convocation, coordinated by organizations including the Ralph J.