Sunday, March 29

USAC expands efforts to provide free feminine hygiene products

Students will soon have increased access to free menstrual products in the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center. The Undergraduate Students Association Council and the Ashe Center provided 1,000 free pads and tampons to students at the center in November. Read more...

Photo: More free pads and tampons for students will soon be available at the Arthur Ashe Center in three new dispensers outside bathrooms. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Sister duo delivers beauty salon services on the go

Each morning, Liz Garcia rolls bins full of nail polish, hot wax and hair styling tools from her car on Veteran Avenue to the Hill. She and her sister will likely spend 12 hours on campus, a feat they’re happy to accomplish. Read more...

Photo: Jaqueline Garcia (left) and Liz Garcia (right) are sisters who started a mobile salon service last quarter for students living on the Hill and in Westwood Village. The service, called Beauty on Demand, provides nail, hair and waxing services. (Hannah Burnett/Daily Bruin)


Chancellor Gene Block discusses Trump’s executive order, ongoing issues

Chancellor Gene Block meets with the Daily Bruin Editorial Board every quarter to discuss issues affecting campus and to explain administrative policies. At their meeting Monday, Block, who was joined by Vice Chancellors Jerry Kang and Monroe Gorden Jr. Read more...

Photo: Chancellor Gene Block discussed the effect of President Donald Trump’s executive order on travel, housing for additional students and increasing resources for mental health services in his meeting with the Daily Bruin Editorial Board on Monday. (Frank To/Daily Bruin)


Sigma C.H.A.I. aims to promote inclusivity among UCLA communities

Students can drink chai and chat about how to make UCLA a more inclusive campus in a new organization called Sigma C.H.A.I. Undergraduate Students Association Council’s General Representative 3 Inan Chowdhury launched Sigma C.H.A.I., or Coalition of Humans Against Inequality, on Friday. Read more...

Photo: Students discuss what builds the best relationships in the first meeting of Sigma C.H.A.I. (Yixuan Gong/Daily Bruin)


Muslim students concerned about Trump’s immigration restrictions

This post was updated Jan. 30 at 3:45 p.m. Muslim students said they are worried President Donald Trump’s ban on citizens and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries will affect them and their families in the future. Read more...

Photo: UCLA students showed mixed feelings toward President Donald Trump’s ban on citizens and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)


ASUCLA Board of Directors recap – Jan. 27

Associated Students UCLA is a multimillion-dollar organization that provides student services and activities that the university does not fund. It oversees the Undergraduate Students Association Council, Graduate Students Association, Communications Board, campus services and enterprises. Read more...


UCLA union employees stage sit in at chancellor’s office

About 30 UCLA employees crowded into the waiting room of the chancellor’s office Friday afternoon asking to speak with him about their contract negotiations. Members of Teamsters Local 2010, the union representing UCLA skilled trades workers and University of California clerical and administrative workers, used their lunch break to occupy Chancellor Gene Block’s office, asking him to authorize negotiations on terms for a contract with skilled trades workers. Read more...

Photo: Members of Teamsters Local 2010, the union representing skilled trades, administrative and clerical workers at UCLA, asked to speak with Chancellor Gene Block on Friday afternoon. (Erin Gong/Daily Bruin)



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