A tent city set up in support of the diversity requirement kicked off Tuesday night, and some believe the event’s timing is a way for Students First! Read more...

The graduate council of the Academic Senate endorsed on Monday the departmental proposal submitted by the César E. Chávez Center for interdisciplinary instruction in Chicana/o studies and said the legendary labor organizer’s name could stay in the department title. Read more...

Correction appended For 17 years, students at UCLA have pushed to make a diversity requirement part of the general education curriculum for each undergraduate student. While propositions for the requirement have been submitted to the university over that period, the Academic Senate ““ UCLA’s faculty government directly in charge of academic matters ““ has decided against such plans in favor of other measures to foster multiculturalism. Read more...

Correction appended As the circle of student supporters of the diversity requirement deepened, so did the emotions Tuesday night at the inauguration of tent city. Amid tears, students from numerous minority campus organizations joined Undergraduate Students Association Council members for the beginning of a three-day campout in front of Schoenberg Hall to demand that UCLA incorporate a diversity requirement into its curriculum. Read more...

With proposed cuts to outreach, drops in the underrepresented minority enrollment and the call from several students for a diversity requirement, promoting the issue of diversity is a priority for many of the candidates running for seats on the undergraduate student government next term. Read more...

Tiffany Kim, a first-year undeclared student, leaves her room to study. Kim, a resident of Rieber Hall, says she cannot study in the heat of her non-air conditioned room. Read more...

People on campus today around noon may see a funeral-like procession of students marching silently and bearing crosses. The object of their mourning? The loss of minority and low-income students to the university. Read more...