What’s happening at UCLA this week: Dec. 9

What: Campus partners are hosting a “study night” in Pauley Pavilion. The Undergraduate Students Association Council Facilities Commission is co-programing the event with UCLA Recreation, the USAC Academic Affairs Commission and the USAC General Representative 2 office. The study night will include a trail mix bar, free blue books and library resources. Where: Pauley Pavilion […]

Selection of USAC Election Board chair halted amid allegations of bias

The undergraduate student government postponed appointing a student to run its spring elections Tuesday after a councilmember raised concerns about the candidate’s political impartiality. The Undergraduate Students Association Council Election Board chair is tasked with creating a timeline for the spring quarter USAC elections process, appointing other members of the Election Board and screening candidates […]

Student groups call for USAC to defer stipend increase

Several student groups are calling for members of the undergraduate student government to defer their stipend increase until next year. About 10 student groups have signed a recently drafted letter that asks the members of the Undergraduate Students Association Council to put the money used to pay for their stipend raises back into a fund […]

UCLA takes steps to address reports of racial discrimination among faculty

Reports of racial bias and discrimination among faculty at UCLA have spurred changes in university policies and procedures for addressing claims of discrimination – a move that some faculty members say is a first step to remedy a larger institutional problem. “There has got to be a mechanism, unless of course we don’t really care […]

Dean Waterman to resign June 2015, hopes to teach more

Christopher Waterman stood in the theater lobby four hours before his first Musicians’ Union gig and nervously played his bass arrangement over and over. He was 19 years old and had recently left his home in Florida to attend college in Boston and become a professional musician – a decision that would bring him to […]