UCLA awarded the Daily Bruin Alumni Network with its Network of the Year award at the UCLA Awards on May 13. The Network of the Year award goes to the UCLA alumni group that has made outstanding contributions to the university’s community. Read more...

Photo: All of the awardees from the ceremony, including DBAN President Lawrence Ma, stand with Chancellor Gene Block. At the event, DBAN was awarded Network of the Year by UCLA. (Courtesy of Sandy Nguyen)

UCLA community members discussed an FBI report that found that hate crimes in the United States increased by nearly 12% between 2020 and 2021. Hate crimes are defined as criminal incidents against an individual where the offender is partially or totally motivated by racial, ethnic, gender, disability, sexual orientation or other biases unique to the victim. Read more...

Photo: Royce Hall is pictured. As the number of reported hate crimes increases around the country, the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate has been researching the many facets of hate. (Daily Bruin file photo)

This post was updated May 31 at 5:20 p.m. Rafik Wahbi’s favorite memory at UCLA is a simple one: Eating warm-in-your-belly chili on a crisp day, playing his Darbuka outside Bunche Hall and talking with other graduate students about the nerdy things graduate students talk about. Read more...

Photo: People pick up food from a table set up near Bunche Hall during the United Auto Workers strike. The Kitchen Committee, which was set up during the UAW union strike but remains open now, aims to create a close community among food-insecure graduate students. (Courtesy of Kitchen Committee)