Audit asks for student feedback on sexual assault incidents

The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. California state officials are asking for UCLA student feedback about university officials’ responses to incidents of sexual assault. In an emailed statement, Pamela Thomason, UCLA’s Title IX coordinator, said the California State Auditor […]

Muslim Students Association prays for rain at service

Members of the local Muslim community bowed, knelt and swayed their bodies toward the northeast corner of the room – in line with Mecca – praying to God for “ghaith,” the Arabic word for “perfect rain.” As an unseasonably warm light flooded into the John Wooden Center’s Pyramid Room Friday, about 60 members of the […]

USAC passes resolution calling for reevaluation of company investment

The undergraduate student government unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday calling for UCLA and the University of California to divest from companies that invest in private prisons. The resolution states that by investing in companies that benefit from prison labor, the UC and UCLA support a private prison system composed of a disproportionate number of people […]

USAC endowment avoids loss with UCLA Foundation refund

The undergraduate student government will receive about $6,500 from the UCLA Foundation, after a miscommunication about administrative costs involved with an endowment for student programing. Last school year, the Undergraduate Students Association Council established a $100,000 endowment with the UCLA Foundation, a business entity that manages investments for the university. The funds came from USAC’s […]

UCLA offers online counseling for LGBT students

Chad Lazzari hopes a new online program will help him reach out to students who may be struggling with their sexual identity the way he did before coming out. The third-year psychology student is one of six peer advisers for Rainbow Connection, an anonymous online counseling service housed in the UCLA Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender […]

On solid ground: UCLA coming close to finishing seismic retrofit program

Peter Hendrickson began his career in seismic restoration in the midst of one of the most damaging earthquakes to rock Southern California in recent memory: the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Now, the UCLA associate vice chancellor of design and construction heads the decades long Seismic Correction Program, a $2.2 billion program for renovating and reconstructing UCLA-owned […]

USAC to vote on resolution regarding sexual assault

Undergraduate student government officials will vote Tuesday on a resolution that calls for UCLA administrators to add additional provisions to the Student Conduct Code regarding sexual assault and harassment. The proposed Undergraduate Students Association Council resolution demands that UCLA administrators improve existing sexual assault and harassment education programs, provide a clearer definition of sexual consent […]