Friday, February 13

Compas at UCLA provides resources, supports California farm workers amid ICE raids

This post was updated Feb. 6 at 2:06 p.m. Odalis Rojas grew up in an agricultural community in Ventura County, where she saw her farm worker father, uncles and cousins face various health care barriers. Read more...

Photo: Jacob Thene, a third-year business economics and geography student; Sarai Ceceña, a fourth-year political science student; Alexandra Vazquez, a third-year biology student; and Odalis Rojas, a second-year nursing student, sit by Royce Hall. The students are part of Compas at UCLA, an organization dedicated to advocating for California’s farm worker communities. (Chenrui Zhang/Dailu Bruin)


John Wooden Center introduces fresh equipment, expanded space

The John Wooden Center expanded weightlifting zones and installed new equipment over winter break. The on-campus gym added about 100 new strength-training units – including plate-loaded and free-motion cable machines – in its renovations, said Daniel Jauregui, the gym’s manager. Read more...

Photo: A sign in the John Wooden Center’s advanced circuit zone is pictured. The on-campus gym added about 100 new strength-training units over winter break as part of the JWC Improvement Project. (Amanda Velasco/Daily Bruin senior staff)


USAC’s financial transparency website initiative remains delayed past expectations

This post was updated Feb. 5 at 10:12 p.m. The Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Financial Supports Commission anticipated releasing a finalized financial transparency website detailing the council’s funding allocations by June 2025. Read more...

Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Financial Expenditure Viewer draft site is picture in front of Financial Supports Commissoner Nico Morrone’s office. Morrone said the site would show USAC’s funding allocations by the end of spring quarter, but the website has yet to be finalized. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)


SWC’s Peer Support Lounge provides wellness resources, study space for students

This post was updated Feb 8. at 10:44 p.m. The Peer Support Lounge in Kerckhoff Hall offers free wellness resources – including free snacks, emergency contraceptives and toiletries – to students. Read more...

Photo: The inside of the Student Wellness Commission’s Peer Support Lounge is pictured. The PSL offers free wellness resources such as snacks, emergency contraceptives and toiletries for students. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)




LA Fires Research Conference fosters discussion on fire survivors’ experiences

More than half of tested homes in Los Angeles county fire-impacted communities had unsafe contaminant levels one year after the January 2025 fires, a survivor advocacy group said at the first annual LA Fires Research Conference on Jan. Read more...

Photo: A professor in the department of environmental health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is pictured speaking at the event. The conference centered on the experiences of fire survivors from the January 2025 Los Angeles county fires. (Chenrui Zhang/Daily Bruin)