One quarter into the 2025-2026 term, the Daily Bruin spoke to the Undergraduate Students Association Council about each officer’s goals – and what they’ve accomplished so far. Read more...
Photo: The 15 members of the 2025-26 Undergraduate Students Association Council are pictured. The council spoke with the Daily Bruin about its policy goals and predicted challenges for the upcoming year. (Courtesy of USAC Officials)
When one student said they found a “nuclear bomb” in their Epicuria pizza, “Charles” was there to answer from the dining hall’s television screen. “Welcome to Housing-Dining,” he wrote from the screen. Read more...
Photo: Charles Wilcots, the associate director of UCLA Housing, poses at Epicuria at Covel. Wilcots has focused on personalizing the Dine & Dish program for the past 10 years. (Photo by Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff. Photo illustration by Desiree Gonzalez/Daily Bruin staff)
Shelley Weng returned to her eight-person Palo Verde apartment to find piles of unwashed dishes, sauce-splattered counters and bugs flying in the kitchen on several occasions last year. Read more...
Photo: (Yuri Mansukhani/Daily Bruin staff)
This post was updated Sept. 24 at 11:17 p.m. Jewish community members criticized the federal government’s citation of “antisemitism and bias” as justification for suspending university funding. Read more...
Photo: Hillel at UCLA building is pictured. UCLA’s Hillel chapter, along with the Jewish Faculty Resilience Group, are forming a Jewish faculty working group to advocate for the restoration of UCLA’s research funding. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Sept. 17 at 8:26 p.m. The UC Board of Regents approved the UCLA police department’s request for less-than-lethal munition launchers and sponge rounds at a Wednesday meeting. Read more...
Photo: UCPD officers with less-than-lethal weapons enter the Palestine solidarity encampment. The UC Board of Regents approved the UCLA police department’s request for less-than-lethal munition launchers and sponge rounds at a Wednesday meeting. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Sept. 22 at 2:20 p.m. A UC Board of Regents committee voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend allocating an additional $2 million to replace an outdated UCLA emergency power system. The project, first approved in 2020, will upgrade the emergency power system for the Center for Health Sciences and its adjacent buildings to ensure that research, clinical activities and safety remain protected in case of a power outage. Read more...
Craig Valenzuela, a UCLA alumnus and former Los Angeles Police Department commander, was appointed UCPD’s chief of police in July. He stepped into the role Sept. Read more...
Photo: Craig Valenzuela, UCPD’s chief of police, is pictured. Valenzuela, a UCLA alumnus and former LAPD commander, stepped into the role at the beginning of September. (Courtesy of UCPD)
