Author Archives: Constance Dillon

No candidates from Slate Refund won positions in the undergraduate student government general elections, but general representative candidate Shauna Peterson will advance to next week’s runoff. The nine candidates running under Slate Refund pledged to refund students their $120 annual Undergraduate Students Association fee if elected. Six received over 10 percent of student votes in […]

Going against years of certain commission positions being filled by independent officers, Slate Refund is running candidates for commission positions in this year’s undergraduate student government election, and independent candidates have altered their campaigns in response. With only one day of voting left, independent commissioner candidates have joined campaign efforts, including joint fliers, in order […]

Slate Refund’s campaign platform, based solely on refunding students their quarterly Undergraduate Students Association fee, would require several steps in order to permanently eliminate the fee. The $39.91 quarterly Undergraduate Students Association fee can only be removed through an undergraduate student referendum passed by two-thirds of voters. That measure would be subject to final approval […]

Whether he’s talking about student government or the latest basketball game, Troy Isaac cannot contain his passion for UCLA. The third-year political science and psychology student and candidate for undergraduate student government president would be easy to pick out of a crowd as a UCLA fan: He sports a Bruin pin and blue and gold […]

A bylaws change made last week was reversed by the undergraduate student government Tuesday night after the discovery of a missing clause in its constitution. A section that outlines a two-thirds voting threshold needed to create a bylaws change was accidentally removed from the Undergraduate Students Association’s constitution in 1984 as a result of a […]

The decades-old process that the undergraduate student government has used to make changes to its governing laws is written nowhere in its constitution or bylaws and is invalid, a member of the council said at Tuesday night’s meeting. The Undergraduate Students Association Council historically has operated under the assumption that a two-thirds majority was needed […]

The undergraduate student government voted Tuesday night to adopt single transferable voting for all future elections, with the possible exception of the general election this spring. The Undergraduate Students Association Council added a stipulation to forgo single transferable voting for this spring’s elections, scheduled to begin sixth week, if MyUCLA formally refuses to use that […]