Author Archives: Edward Truong

To hear his mother tell it, passive is not the word to describe Gregory Cendana.

The slate that emerged in last year’s undergraduate student government elections to challenge the two dominant slates will be absent from this year’s elections. Slate Refund debuted last year as a new coalition of students with similar ideologies and goals who pooled their campaign resources and ran together to challenge the dominant slates Students First! […]

Nurit Katz became the 2007-2008 Graduate Students Association president on Tuesday night, beating her opponent, Tony Dunbar, by 47 percent.

After previous meetings with university administrators, a former Saxon Suites resident assistant plans to meet with Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams about the termination of his employment.

With their year coming to an end, members of the Undergraduate Students Association Council said their tenures were largely guided by their campaign promises and, while they had many accomplishments, other projects encountered administrative problems and some are still in progress. Having a specific platform during elections allows candidates to form a plan that can […]

During a luncheon and dinner Monday, candidates emphasized promoting social programs and increasing voter turnout for the upcoming Graduate Students Association elections, which start today. John Slifko, director of elections for GSA, said the events were important opportunities for graduate students to familiarize themselves with the range of issues that may affect them. “They need […]

Hill residents once again voted against adopting the Collegiate Readership Program, which provides free copies of USA Today and the Los Angeles Times to on-campus residents. The referendum, which marked the third attempt in five years to adopt the program, proposed a $3 fee increase each quarter for on-campus residents, said Caitlin Harvey, chair of […]