The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every week on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Watch a livestream of the meetings on the USAC Live! YouTube channel. Special presentations Inan Chowdhury, former general […]
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University police investigate suspicious package near School of Dentistry
This post was updated May 25 at 4:27 p.m. University police investigated a suspicious package near the entrance of the UCLA School of Dentistry Thursday afternoon and determined it was harmless. UCPD spokesperson Nancy Greenstein said police officers arrived at the scene and cordoned off the perimeter around the package. Officers then used a bomb […]
UC Board of Regents votes in favor of capping nonresident enrollment
This post was updated May 18 at 7:33 p.m. University of California campuses will cap nonresident enrollment starting in fall 2018. The UC Board of Regents voted to limit the percentage of nonresident students at 18 percent at five UC campuses Thursday at its bimonthly board meeting at UC San Francisco. UC campuses where nonresident […]
EDI office to accept applications for student advisory board
Vice Chancellor Jerry Kang is looking for three to five more students to the advise his office on campus climate issues. Kang announced in an email to students Friday that the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion will be accepting applications to serve on its student advisory board for the next academic year. Kang created […]
Afrikan Student Union releases list of demands for UCLA administration
The Afrikan Student Union called on UCLA to create a Black Resource Center and a $40 million endowment to address African-American underrepresentation on campus in a list of demands it released Thursday. Fourth-year philosophy and African American Studies student and Afrikan Student Union Chair Alicia Frison said the group worked on the demands throughout the […]
Candidates discuss influence of national politics in USAC election
Several candidates who ran in this year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council elections said they think national politics influenced this year’s election. Nine independent candidates were elected to the council in Friday’s election. The election also featured two slates, with the Defend Affirmative Action Party winning one seat and the Bruins United slate winning four positions. […]
2017 USAC election sees 27.5 percent voter turnout, down from 2016
Voter turnout in the 2017 undergraduate student government election was the lowest it has been in recent years, falling more than 10 percentage points from 2016. About 8,000 students, or 27.5 percent, voted in this year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council election, compared to more than 40 percent last year. Voter turnout has been about 30 […]