Author Archives: Menaka Fernando

The undergraduate government is set to vote on a significant change to their bylaws at its meeting tonight ““ a change that would extend the council’s funding to all student groups. Under its current bylaws, the Undergraduate Students Association Council can only fund student groups that it officially recognizes. Officially recognized groups are groups registered […]

It was a relatively uneventful day in Encino when members of the Students United for Reform and Equality slate gathered to discuss their platform for the upcoming undergraduate student government’s spring elections. At that time, Undergraduate Students Association Council President and slate leader David Dahle introduced what would become a controversial campaign document. More than […]

Even UCLA students adamantly against the war in Iraq generally still strongly support the U.S. troops in Iraq. But the question that arose at the Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting Tuesday night was whether a resolution intended to support the troops could actually end up being a resolution in support of war. In this case, […]

Public bodies in the state of California are subject to the state’s open meeting laws, with only a few exceptions ““ which include all of the University of California’s elected student governments. While the Bagley-Keene Act of 1967 mandates state bodies to meet and deliberate openly, it does not apply to UC associated student bodies. […]

A document written by UCLA’s undergraduate student government president and passed out to students planning to run for office on his slate includes a “friends and enemies” section and lists ways to manipulate campus politics and deal with student media. “Manipulation is the key,” Undergraduate Students Association Council President David Dahle wrote, as the first […]

The two leading undergraduate student government slates will have new company this year at the upcoming spring elections. Headed by Andrew LaFlamme, the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s current financial supports commissioner, a new slate called United Independents was recently formed and will compete for positions in the 2003 USAC elections. Members of United Independents will […]

It was just another busy day in the airport, hundreds of travellers going on vacation, coming home, visiting friends. But for fourth-year electrical engineering student Ajish Antony, who is of Asian descent, this was also just another day that he would be reminded of his race ““ reminded he was different. Waiting for a flight, […]