Because of recent Undergraduate Students Association Council action, all UCLA students have won a tremendous victory in terms of their student governance. For the first time in many years, all student groups will be able to apply for funding from USAC, as it is now recognizing newly revised funding guidelines that will include independent groups. Read more...

“The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.” These words comprise the text of the “Flag Protection Amendment” now pending in the U.S. Read more...

Without variation and with omnipresent intensity, the single cure to every natural, economic and political calamity is said to be civil dialogue. What is the solution to heated debates between campus groups? Read more...

By now you probably have been congratulated and praised by every other person both inside and outside of UCLA for being admitted here. It is well-deserved recognition. Read more...

One of the gifts of UCLA is that each of you is welcome here, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and same-gender-loving people. You are expected to be here. Read more...

The Office of Residential Life places a strong emphasis on student development and academic involvement within the university’s living community. We strive to make living on campus at UCLA as positive as possible. Read more...

Welcome to UCLA. You are about to begin one of the most important, most challenging, most exciting times of your entire life. During the next few years most of you will transition from the last days of the relatively confined, somewhat predictable world of adolescence into the wide-open, unpredictable world of the rest of your life. Read more...