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May 15, 2026 11:02 p.m.
Attendees celebrate at an announcement event for the Undergraduate Students Association Council 2026 election. Undergraduate students rejected $87 in referendum fees, approved changes to the USAC constitution and chose new officers in the 2026 election. (Kai Dizon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Undergraduate students rejected $87 in referendum fees, approved changes to the Undergraduate Students Association Council constitution and chose new officers in the 2026 USAC election.
From 31,803 eligible voters, 3,205 ballots were cast – a 10.1% turnout, said Syed Tamim Ahmad, USA Elections Board chair, who announced the results at a Friday event outside Kerckhoff Hall.
By Nicholas Mouchawar
Los Angeles
May 15, 2026 9:14 p.m.The North Westwood Neighborhood Council passed a community impact statement calling for improvements to the Westwood Boulevard Safety and Mobility project at its May meeting.
The council, which represents UCLA and Westwood Village, meets on the first Wednesday of every month at UCLA’s Weyburn Terrace.
By Charlotte Martling
Campus
May 15, 2026 7:04 p.m.UCPD detains demonstrator in pro-Palestine protest for Nakba Day
This post was updated May 15 at 7:16 p.m.
UCPD detained one person at a Friday demonstration that recognized the 1948 mass displacement of Palestinians.
Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA organized the protest for Nakba Day – which remembers the roughly 750,000 Palestinians who were displaced by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
By Nicholas Mouchawar and Charlie Hamilton
Campus
May 15, 2026 11:44 a.m.USA Judicial Board reinstates general representative candidate in USAC elections
The USA Judicial Board reinstated a disqualified general representative candidate in the Undergraduate Students Association Council elections Thursday evening.
Susie Turner, a second-year African American studies and public affairs student, was initially disqualified by the USA Elections Board for exceeding the elections board’s $200 personal-spending campaign expenditure limit by $8.20, according to the board’s notice of disqualification.
By Lucine Ekizian
News
May 14, 2026 9:56 p.m.Latinx Success Center connects students with professionals, faculty in new event series
A UCLA student who amassed more than 300,000 followers on social media by sharing his experience as a Latino and first-generation Bruin in medicine spoke at an on-campus event May 8.
By Sophia Pu
Campus
May 14, 2026 1:55 p.m.2nd USAC general representative candidate disqualified for inaccurate finances
This post was updated May 14 at 8:51 p.m.
The USA Elections Board disqualified a second general representative candidate from the Undergraduate Students Association Council elections Wednesday evening.
By Rune Long
Campus
May 14, 2026 2:52 a.m.AFSCME Local 3299 reaches contract with UC after 2 years, cancels indefinite strike
A union representing about 40,000 UC workers reached a contract with the University early Thursday morning after more than two years of negotiations, averting an open-ended strike hours before it was set to begin.
By Alexandra Crosnoe
A Closer Look
May 13, 2026 11:51 p.m.Students explore intersection of nature, health through ecological medicine class
Students in a UCLA Ecological Medicine seminar traded their classroom for the outdoors in spring quarter.
Conor Murray, the instructor for Psychiatry 186, led students through the Mildred E.
By Maanasi Kademani
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