Undergraduate student government officials are set to decide how to spend more than $150,000 of surplus funds at their meeting Tuesday night. Undergraduate Students Association Council surplus funding is money carried over from one year’s council to the next and calculated every November. The councilmembers are working with about $152,000 this year. Last year’s surplus […]
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USAC left with smaller surplus than previous years
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. The undergraduate student government will have to work with a smaller amount of funds left over from previous councils than it has in recent years after the 2012-2013 council spent much of its […]
Students protest lack of diversity in higher ed during UCSA conference
Hundreds of students blocked traffic on part of Westwood Boulevard for about an hour Saturday afternoon as part of the annual Student of Color Conference.
Student political groups debate at-issue items
The UCLA Bruin Democrats, Bruin Republicans and Bruin Libertarians faced off against one another for the first time at a debate on campus Tuesday night. The Political Science Student Organization organized the debate, which touched on issues such as the Affordable Care Act, prison reform, immigration reform and the recent government shutdown. “We want students to know that […]
Hundreds of Bruins participate in Day of Service
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. Hundreds of pounds of canned foods and boxes of cereal moved down a conveyor belt to dozens of UCLA students, including Phoebe Lam, at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank on Saturday. Lam, […]
Students honor domestic abuse victims in awareness walk at UCLA
Danielle Herrera walked in silence Saturday morning to honor her mother, a survivor of domestic violence. The second-year psychology student said her father often abused her mother when they were together, but the strength she has shown is an inspiration to Herrera. “There were no events like this to allow her to say it wasn’t […]