Author Archives: Ian Stevenson

Election Board recognizes slates, enforces registration deadlines

Candidates who plan to run in the spring undergraduate student government election have until March 13 to register with slates. Slates are groups of two or more students running together for Undergraduate Students Association Council seats. Any candidates who fail to register together in time will, by default, run independently, said Shagun Kabra, USAC Election […]

GSA votes against rejoining UCSA

The graduate student government voted unanimously Wednesday night to not rejoin the University of California Student Association because of concerns over membership fees. To rejoin UCSA, which advocates for UC students, the Graduate Students Association would have to pay about $16,000 annually for membership. At the forum Wednesday, GSA officers said they were worried graduate […]

UCLA doctoral student forges path to college for girls of color

Nyambi Maecely Ford had been rejected by two college mentorship programs before she found JANRAH. At View Park High School, she wasn’t receiving the college guidance she thought she needed, she said. A friend convinced her to apply to JANRAH, a mentorship program that aims to help young women of color get into the colleges […]

Moot court debates sex, LGBT discrimination

The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for more information. A moot court justice interrupted a law student mid-sentence Saturday to ask if derogatory comments about a nurse’s physical appearance – short hair, lack of lipstick and jewelry – were gender or sexual […]