This post was updated June 11 at 7:49 p.m.
UC community members are calling for a ban on caste-based discrimination and further support for caste-oppressed students and faculty following similar movements in other California institutions.

This post was updated May 14 at 10:05 p.m.
The 2023 Undergraduate Students Association Council election saw the highest voter turnout since 2020, with students re-electing three incumbents and ousting President Carl King Jr. 
The USA Elections Board announced results Friday night.

This post was updated May 14 at 9:32 p.m.
Bruin Woods, UCLA’s summer camp under litigation for alleged hazing and sexual assault, will close this year’s operations, preventing alumni and their families from attending.

This post was updated May 11 at 11:44 p.m. 
The Jamba by Blendid smoothie machine in Ackerman Union closed Wednesday afternoon after a drain pipe broke open, leading to putrid smells and light spillage. 
A hole burst in one of Ackerman Union’s drain lines that was connected to kitchens in the building, said Tony Mercado, a member of the Associated Students of UCLA maintenance department working on-site at Ackerman Level 1, where Jamba by Blendid is located.

This post was updated April 13 at 11:28 p.m.
Graduating Bruins will hear from UCLA alumnus and famous actor and director Randall Park at the UCLA College commencement on June 16, UCLA announced Wednesday.

The White House honored Judith Baca with one of the nation’s most prestigious awards for artistic excellence March 21.
President Joe Biden awarded Baca – professor emeritus of Chicano/a and Central American Studies and world arts and cultures – the 2021 National Medal of Arts alongside 21 other individuals and two organizations.

Stepping onto the tarmac at Santa Monica Flyers, Vedant Bhargava always reminds himself to go back to the same checklist – a mindset he calls “airplane mode.”
The second-year economics student completes a laundry list of pre-flight checks before takeoff in a four-seat, single-engine airplane, including some for weather, passenger safety, fuel, and other flight technologies and conditions.

This post was updated Feb. 22 at 11:10 pm
Around 100 UCLA community members gathered Wednesday afternoon at Murphy Hall to protest reports of administration-backed cuts to graduate student admissions in light of recently won wage increases.

This post was updated July 12 at 8:03 p.m.
Dozens of UCLA students participated in a recent technical competition to address persistent disparities facing the LGBTQ+ community.

Throughout her early college years, Kelsey Kawana never really saw the snacks she grew up with lining the campus vending machines.
That feeling led her and two other former students at the UCLA Anderson School of Management – Eric Luo and Anne Marie Bessacini – to form dachi, an Asian-inspired treat and beverage company, in 2022.