Author Archives: Anthony Pesce

At last week’s Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting, USAC approved three broad goals for the year, including strengthening student voice, increasing campus safety and helping transfer students adjust to UCLA. Though these goals ““ called action agenda items ““ are conceptual, each USAC officer has pledged to take specific actions to help further them. Action […]

The Undergraduate Students Association Council approved operational funding totaling almost $100,000 for over 100 student groups Tuesday. But this year, more groups applied for funding than have in the past, and because of the increase in applicants all groups received less money. Student leaders are concerned that their groups will be negatively affected because less […]

After two pickets and months of contract negotiations, a union representing UCLA trade and technical workers reached an agreement Friday for a new contract with the university. The union, the State Employees Trades Council, represents nearly 600 UCLA craftsmen, including painters, electricians and sheet metal workers who work for UCLA Housing and Hospitality Services, university […]

After last week’s approval of the new holistic admissions process, UCLA will need to hire more application readers, and applicants may be receiving their acceptance letters weeks later than they have in the past. Though the faculty senate has voted to approve the new admissions process, a final version of the guidelines has yet to […]

The UCLA Academic Senate approved a “holistic” approach to admissions Thursday evening. Starting with this year’s applicants, UCLA will change the way undergraduate applications are read and scored to allow more of an emphasis on personal achievements. UCLA has been criticized recently for declining numbers of underrepresented minority admits. Though administrators have not said that […]

Starting in January, students taking the MCAT can put down their pencils and pick up some eye drops. The MCAT is converting to digital format and students taking the test will be staring into a computer screen for over five hours. With the new digital version, 30 percent of the test questions will be cut, […]

SAN FRANCISCO “”mdash; Talk of student wellness, academic freedom and nuclear research dominated the discussion at last week’s UC Board of Regents meeting in San Francisco. On Sept. 20, the regents decided to bid for the management of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, which contributes to the development of nuclear weapons. The lab’s Web site […]