State senator proposes amendment to strip UC’s constitutional autonomy

A California state senator proposed a state constitutional amendment Wednesday that would strip the University of California of its autonomy from the state. The amendment from Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) would allow the state Legislature to give itself powers to control the UC more closely, such as the ability to veto any of the […]

USAC passes vote of no confidence in Napolitano, regents

The undergraduate student government passed a resolution with a 9-4 vote Tuesday expressing no confidence in University of California President Janet Napolitano and the UC Board of Regents. Undergraduate Students Association Council Internal Vice President Heather Hourdequin, Academic Affairs Commissioner Allyson Bach, Facilities Commissioner Carlos Quintanilla and Financial Support Commissioner Heather Rosen voted against the […]

Senate Democrats propose plan to keep in-state UC tuition flat

This article was updated at 8:59 p.m. California Senate Democrats proposed Tuesday that the University of California increase its nonresident supplemental tuition by 17 percent for next year and up its enrollment by 5,000 students while keeping in-state tuition flat. The proposal comes after the UC Board of Regents passed a policy in November that would increase tuition by […]

UCLA students organize campaign boycotting Wal-Mart on Black Friday

Dozens of UCLA students boycotted and urged others to boycott Wal-Mart on Black Friday, calling for the corporation to pay its workers higher wages and give them better benefits. In a social media campaign, students posted photos online holding signs that read “End corporate greed” and “People over profit,” among other messages, in Kerckhoff Hall […]

Napolitano holds meetings on streamlining transfer process

University of California President Janet Napolitano met with community college leaders in Northern California last week to plan ways to make it easier for transfer students to apply to and get more information about the University, the UC said in a press release Wednesday. Though the UC and its campuses send admission representatives and information […]

UCLA students hold ‘die-in,’ moment of silence for Michael Brown

This post was updated on Nov. 25 at 7:20 p.m.

Several hundred students called for university police to institute a sensitivity training course for all its officers during a protest Tuesday, following a grand jury’s non-indictment of Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.

Students protest Ferguson grand jury decision around campus, Westwood

About 30 protesters marched around campus and in Westwood Monday to protest a grand jury’s non-indictment of a Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot and killed black teenager Michael Brown. The protesters, many of them students, called for reform of the criminal justice system, which they perceive to be biased against racial minorities. They took […]