Bruin Republicans has challenged the Chicana/o student group MEChA to a public debate on Friday to address the merit of MEChA’s founding documents. Radio talk show host Al Rantel will air the debate on his radio show if members of MEChA attend, aiming to broadcast the debate to L.A. County. Bruin Republicans’ campaign against MEChA […]
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Bruin Republicans talk their way to $28,000 in donations
A political student group on campus that has previously voiced their desire to obtain university funding recently discovered an easier way to obtain far more than the university could ever provide. In the span of a mere three weeks, the Bruin Republicans’ budget has grown from zero to tens of thousands. Since appearing on the […]
Accord reached in grocer strike
A tentative agreement was reached between grocery workers and major supermarket chains Thursday that could put an end to the nearly 20-week-long supermarket strike. Details about the agreement were not disclosed by representatives of the United Food and Commercial Workers union. These last rounds of negotiations between the grocery workers union and Albertsons Inc., Kroger […]
Welfare Commission rolls out AIDS awareness event
Over 100 students are expected to show up to roller skate in the Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom tonight to help AIDS victims in the Los Angeles community. This year’s Roll-AIDS program marks the 10th year the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Student Welfare Commission has put on an event designed to raise student awareness about the […]
Donation establishes new chair
A Japanese American who had been forced to enter an internment camp in the 1940s has donated $500,000 to UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center. The center will establish the nation’s first endowed academic chair to focus on the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. The establishment of the chair, announced this week, is named […]
De Neve residents partner up with city youth
They make sad faces and try to climb into the UCLA van with hope of going home with their mentors. The children from the Ujima Village Development hate to see their UCLA mentors leave after their weekly homework help time. Elisabeth Turner, a second-year political science student says she looks forward to the eagerness of […]
Evening midterms test students’ scheduling ability
As midterms approach, some students are finding that they have to change their schedules in order to accommodate evening midterms conflicting with their class schedules. Yasmin Bholat, a second-year neuroscience student, dropped her Life Science 3 course which had an evening midterm so she could continue to take a chemistry lab course scheduled for the […]