Author Archives: Robert Salonga

Cultures will come together and Bruin-produced cinema will reach out into Latin America as a result of an agreement signed between UCLA and the University of Veracruz, Mexico. The international agreement, sponsored for UCLA by the Chicano Studies Research Center, establishes an exchange of research, faculty and students between the two universities. “I hope this […]

Partisan politics in student government has a long history at UCLA, and it continues today. In recent memory, this has been the case since a mid-’90s demographic transformation in the undergraduate student government, but this year, officers said they are working to minimize its effect on important decisions. This year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council has […]

After hours of grueling and often heated partisan debate, the undergraduate student government rejected an appeal by one of the largest student groups on campus that alleged unfair allocations of student fee-supported funds. The Muslim Student Association failed in its bid to be reconsidered for more funding from the Undergraduate Students Association Council, with the […]

In a state often characterized by the amount of sunshine it receives, students are trying to parlay these rays into providing energy to a substantial amount of the University of California. The UC Go Solar campaign has made its way to UCLA, with organizers and students currently garnering support from student governments systemwide to make […]

It’s official: about 80 non-student campus food workers have gone from part-time uncertainty to receiving full career wages and benefits as a result of a contract negotiated between the Associated Students of UCLA and the workers’ union. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represents 17,000 University of California workers, announced the […]

This year UCLA will gear two groups of courses primarily toward freshmen in an effort to personalize their education within the context of a 35,000-student university. In addition to the six-year-old general education cluster courses, UCLA is offering 32 one-unit seminars in the Fiat Lux (“Let there be light”) series designed to expose freshmen to […]

Using the backdrop of the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation that will provide paid leave for workers who take time off to care for their children and family members. “I don’t want Californians to choose between being good parents and good employees,” Davis said. Effective July 1, 2004, workers can take […]