Sexual assault survivors and advocates carried mattresses covered in the handwritten accounts of their experiences with gender-based violence in a student-led demonstration Wednesday. The event was inspired by Emma Sulkowicz, a Columbia University student who lost her disciplinary case against the man she claimed raped her in a university dorm room two years ago. Read more...

Photo: Students carry mattresses through Bruin Plaza and across other walks of campus to symbolize the emotional weight that survivors of sexual assault carry each day. The students marched in a loop, past Murphy Hall, through UCLA’s sculpture garden and back to the Bruin Bear. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)

Professional cyclists streaking by in neon blurs made a lasting impression on Sebouh Bazikian. He was in eighth grade and at his first bike-a-thon, taking in the scene while pedaling at his own pace. Read more...

Photo: First-year Sebouh Bazikian mounts his racing bike, which helped inspire the charity he created when he was 16 to deliver bicycles to orphans who must walk several miles to get to school. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)