Students flocked to Wilson Plaza on Wednesday for the Student Alumni Association’s annual Beat ‘SC Rally.
Approximately 2,750 people attended the event, a tradition ahead of UCLA football’s yearly rivalry game against USC, according to a written statement from Elizabeth Salgado, a third-year theater student and one of the rally’s directors.

This post was updated Nov. 24 at 10:28 p.m.
November’s election will impact many of Annabelle Shen’s friends, even though she cannot vote.
“Some of my friends, they want to immigrate here, so maybe they will follow the policies and the elections,” said Shen, a fourth-year geography student from China.

THE HILL – Next to a food truck outside Rieber Terrace, Liam Findley, a first-year global studies student, said he felt people are dejected as the crowd murmurs about Trump’s projected win.

Just outside Pauley Pavilion, when asked to describe her emotions in three words when the news of a projected Trump win in Pennsylvania broke – Anika Maragathavel, a first-year psychobiology student – said she was hungry, sad and contemplative.

Just outside Royce Hall, students deliberated on a potential second Trump presidency. Nicolas Rabadi, a second-year business economics student, said he feels changes in leadership in the House of Representatives, Senate and White House are a good thing.

As UCLA’s Main Campus remains quiet, a group of students with the Bruin Business Literacy club walked out of Haines Hall, discussing their shock at Trump’s lead.