Author Archives: Constance Dillon

With Election Day less than a week away, the UCLA School of Public Affairs hosted a discussion Wednesday about the propositions on the Nov. 7 ballot in hopes of gathering student attention and encouraging students to vote. Two California State Assembly members discussed reasons in support of and against each proposition on the ballot, including […]

With more than 800 student groups and organizations, it is difficult to miss the enthusiasm and passion of UCLA students. Each day students participate in and help plan countless programs to benefit the UCLA community and the greater Los Angeles area. With so many student groups at UCLA, new and smaller ones say they often […]

Police officers used batons and pepper spray against a crowd of UC Santa Cruz student protesters Wednesday afternoon at the UC Board of Regents meeting on that campus, which resulted in the arrest of three individuals. The student protest, with approximately 150 students in attendance at its peak, escalated when a small number of students […]

In the past year the average member of the Undergraduate Students Association Council slept four hours a night, spent more time in Kerckhoff Hall than anywhere else, and began calling the student support services manager “mom.” The councilmembers graduating this spring, whose terms ended last month, said it is hard to say goodbye to a […]

The senate proposal petition is expected to fail to reach the required number of signatures to put it on a special election ballot for a second straight year. In order for a special election to be held, 3,722 signatures ““ or 15 percent of the undergraduate student population ““ needed to be collected and validated. […]

Newly elected undergraduate student government officials are likely to face opposition in the coming year because the council is equally divided between slates, with no single slate holding a majority of seats on council. Both Bruins United and Students First! slates each won five positions on the Undergraduate Students Association Council. The split between slates […]

With only hours of campaigning left, student government candidates are becoming more creative in their final efforts to keep students interested in the election, since tonight marks the end of two straight weeks of campaigning. Candidates faced disappointment after last week’s low voter turnout, which came in at 28 percent of the undergraduate population. They […]