Five cases of measles broke out in Los Angeles County in April.

Urgent messages were sent to 125 UCLA students, asking them to submit to being quarantined. Students were shuffled into a building with metal panels sealing the doors. In the middle of UCLA’s midterm exam season, students hunched over their computers, frantically searching for medical documents.

Health care isn’t the reason students come to UCLA. But it could be the reason they don’t stay.

UCLA’s Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center is charged with addressing the medical needs of students. Paired with Counseling and Psychological Services, the Ashe Center provides students the care they need while being conveniently available on campus.

At least, that’s how it’s meant to be.

Westwood is still reeling from the debilitating, lingering effects of the previous era, despite the WWNC being replaced by the new North Westwood Neighborhood Council – a council that promises a more student- and business-friendly neighborhood. Despite offering minimum services for students, the Village does not offer options for students looking to fulfill their most basic shopping needs.

Do we really need neighborhood councils?

Those words were on every month’s agenda when Jerry Brown was president of the Westwood Neighborhood Council.

Yes, every month. No, not Gov. Jerry Brown.

Brown was WWNC’s first president when the council was formed in 2010. He retired in 2016.

It takes a lot of work to marginalize 3.5 million Americans at once.

But the ROTC did just that when it stereotyped Muslims to portray enemy combatants.

During a training held by UCLA’s and California State University, Fresno’s Army ROTCs in early April, students acting as enemy soldiers in combat simulations wore clothing commonly worn by civilians in Arab countries. The clothing included kufiyyas and iqals, which are better known as the flowing scarves Arab men traditionally wear on their heads.

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain. UCLA probably didn’t expect that moment to come for its bike share program so soon.

UCLA started its Bruin Bike Share program last year in an effort to provide affordable transportation to students on and around campus. UCLA said in November, a month after the program had launched, that initial participation in the program had exceeded its expectations: It expected to sell 425 monthly or yearly memberships and ended up selling 498.

There weren’t many people for me to look up to when I grew up. Born and raised an Egyptian in California, I obviously had my parents, but I never really saw someone like me doing big things in science, politics or entertainment.

It felt like I was living in a world that wasn’t built for me – a world that didn’t include me or people like me in its plan for the future. That was all supposed to change after I came to UCLA, one of the most diverse universities in America.

Step aside, Bruin Bear. UCLA has a new contestant for school mascot – the Bird scooter.

One night, the community went to sleep peacefully. The next morning, the Birds had appeared in large packs around the neighborhood – a silent mechanical invasion. They’re black, branded and can be found parked in front of campus buildings or being ridden by students up and down Bruin Walk.

Imagine being on a campus of 50,000 students and not always being able to hear what’s going on around you. Extracurricular activities would be rather confusing, guest speakers would be speaking gibberish unless you stared intently at their lips and group projects would be a nightmare.

This is the life hard of hearing students live at UCLA.