USAC recap – Nov. 18

The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every week on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff Hall 417 and are open to all students. Watch a live stream of the meeting on the USAC Live! Youtube Channel. Public Comments Public comment […]

Hillel at UCLA to host event offering screenings for genetic diseases

Hillel at UCLA will host a gene-screening event Wednesday to help UCLA community members identify their risk of passing down certain genetic diseases. The Los Angeles Jewish Genetic Disease Prevention Project and Progenity lab are sponsoring the event with Hillel at UCLA. Individuals who attend the event will have access to genetic counseling, said Tammy […]

USAC to discuss proposed tuition hike, divestment meeting logistics

The undergraduate student government will hold a special meeting Wednesday to address proposed tuition increases and to confirm the logistics of the Nov. 18 divestment resolution meeting. Internal Vice President Avinoam Baral is scheduled to release the meeting agenda by Sunday night. The meeting will take place Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417, after […]

UCPD reports multiple burglaries in North Village

University police have reported a series of burglaries in Westwood student apartments since Tuesday, Oct. 28. Two burglaries were reported on Strathmore Drive, one was reported at 459 Gayley Ave. and another was reported at 714 Levering Ave., according to a UCPD statement. In each case, an unknown person entered through an unlocked door and […]

USAC to restrict access, limit public comment at divestment meeting

The undergraduate student government will limit public comments to two hours and restrict access for the press and public at its next meeting, where councilmembers will vote on a controversial divestment resolution. The meeting, which will be held seventh week, will include a vote on a resolution calling for the University of California to divest […]

UCLA Parents’ Weekend 2014 a relative success

His kids complained about getting two roommates, but he had 11. Thirty years ago, Zelalem Aychiluhim was a first-year mechanical engineering student in Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. Now his daughter, Bethel Aychiluhim, is a first-year biology student at UCLA. Having moved to the United States from Ethiopia about 20 years ago, Aychiluhim came down from […]

Students carry mattresses in solidarity with sexual assault survivors

Sexual assault survivors and advocates carried mattresses covered in the handwritten accounts of their experiences with gender-based violence in a student-led demonstration Wednesday. The event was inspired by Emma Sulkowicz, a Columbia University student who lost her disciplinary case against the man she claimed raped her in a university dorm room two years ago. As […]