Jill DeJager, nutrition education coordinator of UCLA Student Development Health Education, said she believes that diets do not work.

American Indians currently make up less than one percent of the student population on campus.

UCLA’s newly established Indonesian Studies Program will host the “First UCLA Indonesian Studies Graduate Student Conference,” a two-day conference beginning today, which will educate people about a wide variety of Indonesian academics and culture.

To raise financial literacy on campus, the Financial Supports Commission of UCLA’s undergraduate student government has teamed up with the University Credit Union to create two “financial fitness” workshops.

Tonight, Manning Marable, widely known as a scholar of African American history, will deliver this year’s Thurgood Marshall lecture on Law and Human Rights in the UCLA Covel Commons Grand Horizon Room.

University officials announced UCLA Student Affairs is currently in the planning stages of reconfiguring and improving the services offered at the UCLA Center for Women & Men.

his weekend, UCLA’s United Afghan Club will help to host “Remembering the Forgotten,” a fundraising banquet benefitting the people and particularly the impoverished orphans of Afghanistan.

UCLA’s Graduate Students Association will hand out reusable water bottles to GSA members at tonight’s forum meeting. The event follows the group’s ongoing efforts to keep up with sustainability efforts made by the entire UCLA community.

The Afghan Students Association West, an organization created this past summer which consists of all college Afghan clubs across California, held a statewide clothing and supply drive to aid Afghanistan’s youth and families over the past few months.

UCLA Dance Marathon’s week-long Dancer Registration Drive will begin today, aiming to encourage more students to register early for February’s dance-a-thon. Dance Marathon representatives will make announcements and hand out posters on Bruin Walk, on- and off-campus housing areas, and Westwood to publicize the registration.