The phrase "campus climate" usually only surfaces when an event like the recent viral YouTube video "Asians in the Library" sends ripples through the community. Read more...

Sean Pattison didn't have a story.
Or at least it felt that way, entering the Orientation Program last summer as a counselor. Read more...

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Orientation counselor Sean Pattison displays a poster signed by incoming freshmen that he worked with. As a counselor, he works to build connections between new students.

Rushing for a fraternity this week, Taylor Bazley decided not to mention that he is gay. Read more...

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Taylor Bazley, a first-year business economics student and member of the Queer Alliance, has tried to interact with different student groups to leave his comfort zone.

When Yun Shin arrived at UCLA as a transfer student, she felt the full weight of the label ­"“ she had landed in a world where many students already had groups of friends, and there was no niche she could easily fall into. Read more...

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To build community, Yun Shin founded the Korean Church on Campus with a few friends.

Counting the beats out loud, Alex Franceschi stepped and shimmied and dipped, salsa dancing with his father in the kitchen of his house in Puerto Rico Read more...

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Salsa instructor Alex Franceschi, who teaches classes in the Wooden Center.

Undocumented students in California may soon be able to receive financial aid under the latest California DREAM Act, which consists of two bills introduced to the California State Assembly in January by Assemblyman Gilbert Cedillo. Assembly Bill 130 would allow undocumented students to receive privately funded scholarship money, including the Board of Governors' fee waiver for community college students and most university scholarships at UCLA. Read more...

The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, shut down last December by a 55-41 vote in the U.S. Read more...