Tuesday, December 16



UCLA’s Typhoon Haiyan Relief Committee to donate around $6,000

Student groups have raised about $6,000 in donations for Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts, through a donation campaign and a benefit concert. UCLA students from more than a dozen student groups formed the Typhoon Haiyan Relief Committee in mid-November after Typhoon Haiyan slammed through the Phillippines and part of Vietnam, destroying towns and leaving many injured, dead or missing. Read more...

Photo: The Typhoon Haiyan Relief Committee at UCLA held a week-long donation drive that culminated in a benefit concert by the UCLA Mabuhay Collective, a network of students from groups affiliated with the UCLA Pilipino community. (Felicia Ramirez/Daily Bruin)




UCLA student shares experiences from world travel

Min Woo Sun did not pay for tutoring classes to supplement his education when his South Korea high school shut down. Instead, he homeschooled himself and traveled the world. Read more...

Photo: Min Woo Sun, a first-year economics and international development studies, homeschooled himself and traveled the world after his high school shut down.


Food Stamp Challenge at UCLA explores food insecurity

Pushing his cart through the aisles of Ralphs, Edwin Eshaghzadeh picked out peanut butter, bread, eggs, yogurt, tuna and black beans. Eshaghzadeh had only $31.30 to spend for a week’s worth of food, a budget he has not followed since he was a child and his family was on food stamps. Read more...

Photo: Edwin Eshagzadeh, a fourth-year psychobiology student, tried to follow a food budget that replicated food stamps this past week.



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