No candidates from Slate Refund won positions in the undergraduate student government general elections, but general representative candidate Shauna Peterson will advance to next week’s runoff. Read more...

As a brisk mist rose up Bruin Walk, students cheered, jeered and hugged ““ both before and after the undergraduate student election results were announced. Students gathered in Meyerhoff Park in preparation for the expected 9:30 p.m. Read more...

No slate gained more than two seats in the primary elections and more than half of council positions will go to runoff elections next week, including a very close presidential race, according to results announced Thursday night. Read more...

While UCLA prepares to award 11,000 degrees, three students at UC Merced will participate in the university’s first graduation ceremony today. In a room that seats 300, UC Merced plans to award diplomas for the first time ““ to one graduate student and two undergraduate students. Read more...

Going against years of certain commission positions being filled by independent officers, Slate Refund is running candidates for commission positions in this year’s undergraduate student government election, and independent candidates have altered their campaigns in response. Read more...

Editor’s note: Audio clips in this story contain some expletive lyrics. Six-foot-two with freckles and reddish hair, Patrick Williams is not your typical MC. Neither is his friend, dreadlocked Jessica Amisial, a spoken word performer and poet. Read more...

Editor’s note: Audio clips in this story contain some expletive lyrics. Usually quiet after dark, the heart of campus Wednesday night thumped to phat beats as some of UCLA’s finest b-boys and MCs popped, flowed and spit their illest rhymes. Read more...