Author Archives: Melinda Dudley

On-campus housing construction projects are not only changing the physical appearance of the Hill, but may alter its population composition and affect the social atmosphere in the new buildings. Existing residential suite complexes, which include Sunset Village and De Neve Plaza, are sometimes criticized by students as being more antisocial than the high-rises because of […]

Graduate student government officials say Congress needs to take action to make student visas more accessible if UCLA wants to continue to attract the best and brightest students not only from California, but from around the world. The UCLA Graduate Students Association and other advocates of student visa reform are building a campaign throughout the […]

Associated Students UCLA passed the budget for Undergraduate Students Association Council for the 2006 fiscal year at their board of directors meeting Friday. The approved budget divides $2.86 million between administrative overhead, fee and program specific expenses, and the student government and student organizations operational funds. The rise from last year’s funds, $2.45 million, is […]

The newly elected undergraduate student government members took their oaths of office Tuesday night and sat around the council table for the first time. After the outgoing Undergraduate Students Association Council closed its final meeting, councilmembers and their advisors passed the gavel and offered fond recollections and thanks to one another, with the occasional insults […]

In a flood of yellow light, reflecting off the facade of Kerckhoff Hall, Elections Board Chairman Nathan Lam stood in front of a mass of students Thursday night, just as he had a week before. Only this time, the results he read were very different. While the Bruins United slate took council majority in last […]

As the undergraduate student government election cycle draws to a close, both the candidates involved and most of the general student body are exhausted with the process ““ but there remain two key executive positions yet to be filled. Voting for the Undergraduate Students Association Council runoff elections lasts until 7 tonight, with students casting […]

Results for the Undergraduate Students Association Council elections were released Thursday night, with the opposition slate Bruins United winning council majority ““ the first time the Student Power! slate and its predecessors will not control council in over a decade. Runoffs will be held for the positions of president and external vice president, as no […]