Addressing the usual Dance Marathon crowd of people, dressed in colorful, wacky outfits, organizers announced that UCLA’s Pediatric AIDS Coalition raised $434,515 for this year’s Dance Marathon. Read more...
Photo: Students celebrate the end of the 2017 Dance Marathon as organizers announce the total amount raised for pediatric AIDS. This year’s event raised $434,515. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The graduate student government president will run again, unopposed, in the upcoming student elections to finish the work that he started this past year, he said. Read more...
Photo: GSA President Michael Skiles, who will run again unopposed, said he hopes to tackle recurring issues next year, such as working for more affordable graduate student housing. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)
Red light flooded Pauley Pavilion early Sunday as hundreds of dancers raised glow sticks in the air for a vigil honoring people living with HIV. Students participated in a moment of silence and used the glow sticks to recognize women living in sub-Saharan Africa with HIV and AIDS at the Dance Marathon vigil, which began at 3:45 a.m. Read more...
Photo: Dance Marathon participants raised red glow sticks and lowered them to remember women living in sub-Saharan Africa with HIV. (Grace Zhu/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated April 9 at 11:25 a.m. Exhausted dancers looked for ways to relieve their aching feet as Dance Marathon entered the early hours of Sunday morning. Read more...
Photo: Dance Marathon participants try to take the weight off their feet as they dance and stand for pediatric AIDS. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The undergraduate student government election board sanctioned three candidates Friday for a Facebook post that violated social media rules. On Thursday morning, a student named Christian D. Read more...
This weekend, dancing comes with a price. Besides the physical and emotional strength it takes to dance 26 hours straight, students must also raise $10 per every hour they dance, which equals to $260. Read more...
The first speaker at this year’s Dance Marathon was infected with HIV at birth and adopted as an infant, even though she wasn’t expected to live for more than a few months. Read more...
Photo: Dancers at the event follow the movements of onstage performers following a speech delivered by Ashley Rose Murphy, an ambassador for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. (Angelina Ruiz/Daily Bruin)
