Editor’s note: Because of the offensive nature of discussion around this article, commenting has been closed. Lines of students stretched the length of Ackerman Grand Ballroom Tuesday night as an impassioned discussion unfolded about a controversial undergraduate student government divestment resolution. More than 500 students attended the Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting to support or criticize […]
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BruinBill addition has students ‘Promise to Pay’ fees
A new “Promise to Pay” notification on UCLA’s BruinBill website requires students to sign an electronic contract agreeing to pay all of their student fees on time. The feature, which went live Thursday, will serve as a reminder that students have a responsibility to pay their tuition, though enrolled students are always technically responsible for […]
Calif. schools ally to boost graduate, faculty diversity
UCLA and three other California universities have teamed up to bolster the ethnic diversity of graduate student and faculty populations within science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. University officials announced Thursday that the new consortium, called the California Alliance for Graduate Education and Professoriate, will be made up of UCLA, UC Berkeley, Stanford University and […]
Students for Justice in Palestine calls for UC, UCLA divestment
Students for Justice in Palestine has authored a resolution asking the University of California and UCLA to divest from some companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The resolution calls for divestment from five companies that some students say are complicit in the human rights abuses of Palestinians, said […]
GSA Recap – Feb. 12
The UCLA Graduate Students Association is the voice of graduate students on campus. The association meets for forum every three weeks and takes positions on current issues affecting graduate students. Forum meetings are at 7 p.m. in the Ackerman Viewpoint Lounge. Agenda The forum unanimously voted to allocate $1,000 from GSA discretionary funds to help […]
Veteran draws on personal experience in teaching, gay rights research
As he paced in front of a class of about two dozen students, William “Ajax” Peris appeared assured and calm. He displayed the same confident demeanor that helped him succeed at testing heat-seeking missiles and monitoring no-fly zones in Iraq throughout the 1990s, after the first Gulf War. The 44-year-old teaching assistant and U.S. Air […]
Hunger Project at UCLA provides free SAT prep to LA students
From his family’s one-bedroom apartment in West Los Angeles, Stiven Pesjaka treks to UCLA alone on Saturday mornings for free SAT tutoring. The high school junior wants a high test score so he can get into the college of his choice and achieve his goal of becoming a mechanical engineer. His end goal is earning enough […]