To find the perfect study spot at UCLA, students have to race for available seats and wrestle one another for power outlets. UCLA has 22 outdoor study spaces, 30 indoor study spaces and eight libraries, according to the UCLA website. Read more...
Photo: Students study in the Charles E Young Research Library. The library has a variety of study spaces, including meeting rooms and collaboration pods. (Karla Cardenas-Felipe/Daily Bruin)
When Dakota ThuyVy Lam was 14 years old, she retaught herself how to write. The athlete, writer and Fountain Valley High School student experienced a stroke caused by immune thrombocytopenia, a blood condition. Read more...
Photo: Incoming UCLA student Dakota ThuyVy Lam is pictured. Lam died Oct. 20 at age 18. (Courtesy of Nghia Lam)
This post was updated Feb. 17 at 5:30 p.m. Thousands of workers struck against the UC on Wednesday and Thursday. Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 – which represents patient care, service and skilled craft workers – voted to authorize a strike with 99% support after alleging that the University bargained in bad faith during contract negotiations. Read more...
Photo: Members of AFSCME Local 3299 march through campus. The union went on strike Wednesday and Thursday after alleging the UC has bargained in bad faith. (Izzy Greig/Daily Bruin)
Students flocked to Wilson Plaza on Wednesday for the Student Alumni Association’s annual Beat ‘SC Rally. Approximately 2,750 people attended the event, a tradition ahead of UCLA football’s yearly rivalry game against USC, according to a written statement from Elizabeth Salgado, a third-year theater student and one of the rally’s directors. Read more...
Photo: Attendees of the Beat ‘SC rally attend the event, which is hosted before UCLA’s football game against USC each year. At the event, spectators watched a light show and were treated to food trucks and refreshments. (Edward Ho/Daily Bruin)
A mental health street team helped students handle Election Day stress outside Ackerman Union on Nov. 5. Octave, a mental health service with a clinic based in Westwood, organized outreach teams outside UCLA voting centers at both Ackerman Union and the Hammer Museum on Election Day, providing resources such as breathing exercises and access to therapy to help students manage their political stress. Read more...
Photo: Students follow the results of the Nov. 5 general election at an election night watch party. Experts from Octave – a mental health service with a clinic based in Westwood – said the election can cause stress for community members. (Edward Ho/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Nov. 24 at 10:28 p.m. November’s election will impact many of Annabelle Shen’s friends, even though she cannot vote. “Some of my friends, they want to immigrate here, so maybe they will follow the policies and the elections,” said Shen, a fourth-year geography student from China. Read more...
Photo: Students observe election results at a UCLA watch party Nov. 5. (Jessica Allen/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Nov. 19 at 11:46 p.m. Around 40 people attended a candlelight vigil in Dickson Plaza on Thursday to raise awareness and commemorate lives lost in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Read more...
Photo: Members of the Armenian Students’ Association board pose in front of roses and candles in the shape of a cross. The ASA held a candlelight vigil Thursday as part of its annual Artsakh Awareness Week, held in remembrance of lives lost in the Nagorno-Karabakh region since a 2023 military offensive led by the Azerbaijani military. (Sam Mulick/Daily Bruin senior staff)
