From posting daily dancing videos on Musical.ly as a teenager to becoming Miss Culver City at 21 years old, Sharlize True Trujillo has continued to achieve her goals.

Christabelle Marbun started acting at two years old because her mother could not find a babysitter. By 12, she had been nominated for an award.
The third-year philosophy student said she immigrated to Pasadena from Jakarta at 12 years old and was offered a chance to act in Hollywood after a showcase in Disney World in Singapore.

This post was updated May 18 at 9:49 p.m.
Undergraduate students elected a new Undergraduate Students Association Council and renewed funding for the Bruin U-Pass in the 2025 USAC election.

Bold Beauty at UCLA is bringing its vision of the connection between art and disability to campus.
The club is a chapter of the Bold Beauty Project – a national organization that pairs women with disabilities and photographers to create “photo-stories” of each model, according to its website.

Sandra Harding, a former distinguished professor of education and gender studies, died March 5. She was 89.
Internationally recognized for developing “standpoint theory” – which frames science as shaped by cultural and social contexts rather than as purely objective – Harding’s work critiqued classic academic theories that often overlooked the impacts of race, gender and ethnicity on knowledge production and the practice of science.

This post was updated May 16 at 12:24 a.m.
Two people were arrested during a demonstration held Thursday by pro-Palestine organizations at UCLA in remembrance of the 1948 Nakba. 
The demonstration was hosted by several campus organizations – including Students for Justice in Palestine, a temporarily suspended organization – and intended to recognize Nakba Day – which recognizes when around 700,000 Palestinians were expelled by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. 
“The day is important to recognize today because it just demonstrates the longevity of the violence of the Zionist entity against Palestinians and the fact that it did not start October 7,” said Mohammed, an SJP spokesperson who was granted partial anonymity due to fear of retaliation.

The Undergraduate Students Association Council allocated over $500,000 in surplus funding at its meeting Tuesday.
USAC is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA.