After months of anticipation, the time for UCLA club badminton’s first meet of the 2022-2023 season had finally come – but their plan soon hit a fatal snag.

After a serious motorcycle accident in April 2022, Ty Wells needed to find a new way to navigate UCLA’s hilly campus. Traveling between classes in their wheelchair proved difficult, but the fourth-year sociology student then discovered they were eligible for BruinAccess.

This post was updated May 9 at 4:18 p.m.
The Geffen Academy at UCLA for years touted its state-of-the-art makerspace. But behind closed doors, the program was rife with safety violations that endangered the academy’s teenage pupils, according to students, faculty and public records.

Hundreds of thousands of student fee dollars go unspent each year as a campus sustainability fund amasses a substantial surplus, according to a Daily Bruin financial analysis.

Multiple students and recent graduates have come forward with allegations about unsafe living conditions in UCLA-owned housing following a Daily Bruin investigation into the university apartment building Westwood Chateau.

First, water started leaking from her kitchen ceiling. Then the coughing began. 
Jaclyn Schwartz moved into Westwood Chateau, a UCLA-owned apartment, in September. The fourth-year biology student said she was excited to live near campus, but before the quarter was even halfway through, problems arose.

This post was updated Feb. 9 at 6:50 p.m.
Editor’s note: The Daily Bruin updated the art for this story. The previous version of art contained an illustration of Christian Secor, which The Bruin decided should not be circulated.