For the Daily Bruin’s full coverage of the UC Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine encampment, see here.
Statewide labor unions expressed support of on-campus protesters’ pro-Palestine encampment Wednesday following an attack from counter-protesters late Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. 
United Auto Workers Local 4811 – formerly known as the two unions UAW Local 2865 and UAW Local 5810 – which represents University of California academic student employees and graduate student, academic and postdoctoral researchers, announced in a press release Wednesday afternoon that it voted to hold a strike authorization vote as soon as next week.

For the Daily Bruin’s full coverage of the UC Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine encampment, see here.
Police detained a student protester inside Powell Library for an hour Tuesday morning.

This post was updated March 6 at 1:19 p.m.
Policy experts remain largely skeptical of the merits of Proposition 1, which plans to reallocate and add state funding toward housing and treatment for unhoused people with mental illness.

UCLA will pilot an Associate Degree for Transfer Program in the 2026-2027 academic year.
Established by Assembly Bill 1291, which was signed into law by Gov.

Dozens of students demonstrated in support of Palestine and called for divestment from companies involved with weapons manufacturing outside of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center and Murphy Hall on Thursday. 
The assembly began at 8:15 a.m.

A power outage Thursday forced Epicuria at Covel, one of UCLA’s residential restaurants, to close early.
The dining hall, which offers Mediterranean food to students on the Hill, closed early Thursday evening, over an hour before its normal closing time of 9 p.m.

This post was updated May 17 at 12:16 a.m.
The North Westwood Neighborhood Council is the official neighborhood council representing UCLA and Westwood Village to the Los Angeles City Council.

Five UCLA professors were selected as 2023 Guggenheim fellows.
The names of the 171 individuals selected as this year’s awardees were announced April 5 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Hundreds of UCLA community members gathered at a memorial for Powell Cat on Thursday afternoon to reflect on the cat’s nearly decadelong campus legacy following their death March 9.

This post was updated March 15 at 8:25 p.m.
Powell Cat was found dead outside Kaufman Hall on Thursday afternoon. 
Long considered an unofficial campus mascot, Powell Cat has resided at UCLA since around 2015.