USAC recap – May 20

The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Watch a live stream of the meeting on the USAC Live! YouTube channel. Agenda The council approved contingency programming allocations with a 12-0-0 vote. Special […]

Daily Bruin, USAC Election Board debate media authority

Members of the Daily Bruin and the undergraduate student government election board debated at a Monday hearing about whether the board has authority over non-paid media elections coverage. Earlier this month, the Undergraduate Students Association Council Election Board told this year’s USAC presidential candidates that they would be subject to sanctions if they appeared on […]

Donald Neuen gives ‘last lecture’ on following passions

Donald Neuen, a choral conducting professor and choral studies director at UCLA, has conducted the orchestra and chorus in front of as many as 5,000 people. But on Tuesday, Neuen anxiously tugged at his tuxedo collar after he stepped up on the stage in front of about 450 students and faculty members to give his […]

IMHOME student volunteers offer support to the homeless

After three hours of unpolished dicing and slicing, Ori Benoni and Amelia Ribbens tasted the pasta they had painstakingly prepared for the residents of Alexandria House, a transitional homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles. Benoni took one bite from her plate of fettuccine alfredo and twisted her mouth. The aftertaste had a curiously smoky tinge […]

Close races culminate in emotional reactions to election results

The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for more information. LET’S ACT! candidate Devin Murphy was elected by a slim margin Friday as next year’s undergraduate student government president, and will lead a council with a Bruins United plurality. “I feel like I […]

USAC candidates debate campus issues, council problems

Undergraduate student government candidates debated Saturday about ways to improve upon the current council’s efforts to address campus climate problems and serve ethnically and socially diverse communities. About 450 students hissed and cheered as they watched the 30 Undergraduate Students Association Council candidates, running as independents or with one of four slates for positions, debate […]