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April 1, 11:35 pm

Student organization plans to provide peer bonding community for incoming students

A new student organization aims to create a community to provide students with guidance on planning their academic and career goals. Bruin Bonding aims to help incoming students by connecting them with upperclassmen who could give them advice on classes, professors and other opportunities through a peer bonding program. Read more...

Photo: Leanne Ton (left), a third-year business economics student, and Anqi Chen (right), a third-year business economics and music performance student, founded Bruin Bonding to create a community to provide students with guidance on planning their academic and career goals. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)

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March 10, 11:17 pm

Student creates mobile app to help students better discuss mental health

Sahen Rai decided he wanted to help normalize conversations about mental health after a classmate died by suicide during his senior year of high school. “I basically just want to create something that could really help people struggling with mental health issues, or depression or anxiety, and that’s kind of what I want to do for the rest of my life,” he said. Read more...

Photo: Sahen Rai, a first-year computer science student, created the app You Are Loved to help people with their mental health by connecting them to their friends and family. The app lets users rate their happiness each day on a scale from zero to 10, which family and friends can view. (Courtesy of Sahen Rai)

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March 8, 12:36 am

Students with dependents explain daily challenges balancing college and parenthood

Kristen Payne had a 5-year-old daughter when she started school at UCLA. She said taking care of her daughter doubled her workload as a student. “You go through this routine of getting yourself ready, then getting them ready, making sure that everybody has everything they need,” Payne said. Read more...

Photo: Jenneffer Vazquez Moran, a fourth-year human biology and society student and mother of two, said it is not always easy to find resources for students with dependents on campus. (Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin)

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March 5, 11:42 pm

Student groups band together for weeklong fair on homelessness

Campus organizations hosted a club fair on Bruin Plaza to raise awareness of homelessness and kick off the fifth annual Homelessness Awareness Week on Monday. The Mobile Clinic Project, Swipe Out Hunger, Hunger Project, Bruin Shelter and CalFresh Initiative hosted the Homelessness Awareness Fair to promote dialogue about the overarching issue of homelessness in the greater Los Angeles area and inform students about the different organizations’ goals. Read more...

Photo: The Mobile Clinic Project, Swipe Out Hunger, Hunger Project, Bruin Shelter and CalFresh Initiative hosted the fair to promote dialogue about homelessness in Los Angeles. (Elise Tsai/Daily Bruin)

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March 4, 12:29 am

Women’s conference offers attendees exposure to professional fields

Student government officials hosted an all-day women’s conference to encourage women to pursue leadership positions in the professional world. The LEAN IN UC: UC Women’s Leadership Conference 2019 featured 65 speakers, including Amy Ziering, an Emmy Award-winning documentarian, and Cleo Wade, an artist, poet and author. Read more...

Photo: Speakers, including documentarians, artists and businesswomen, addressed issues like the #MeToo movement’s impact and the creation of change at the LEAN IN UC: UC Women’s Leadership Conference 2019 on Sunday. (Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin)

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March 4, 12:29 am

Student organization hosts three-day Korean cultural awareness event

Students celebrated a Korean national holiday on campus for the first time Friday to raise awareness of Korean history by performing Korean drumming, masked dances and a re-enacted march. Read more...

Photo: Hanoolim, a Korean cultural awareness group, hosted a celebration of Samil Day, a Korean holiday that commemorates protests against Japanese imperialism in 1919. The celebration, which was part of a three-day event that began Wednesday, included food, performances and a reenactment of the Samil Day marches. (Jocelyn Dao/Daily Bruin)


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