Author Archives: Saba Riazati

It wasn’t until 12:51 a.m. Wednesday when the gavel hit the long table to end the first meeting of the newly elected Undergraduate Students Association Council. A long-time staff representative called the meeting the longest of its kind as far as she recalls. In the USAC transition session in which the outgoing councilmembers conduct one […]

Student Power! received its first taste of victory Thursday night, as the results of the Undergraduate Students Association Council runoff election were announced. Student Power! won two additional seats in the runoff elections, giving it more representation on council. Since slates are made of students with similar ideologies, some question whether unity will exist on […]

Bruins United candidates will not be able to campaign for the majority of the day today, the last day of the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s runoff election, because of sanctions from the Elections Board. The sanctions are the result of candidate endorsements for runoff election that were sent by the On Campus Housing Council via […]

All four Future Front candidates running for general representative and the Facilities commissioner offices responded with shock and disappointment, but said they were not discouraged, when they learned that none had won any positions when student government election results were announced Thursday night. There were six candidates running for the general representative office, and the […]

Today is the last day of voting for the undergraduate student government primary elections, and both candidates and slates are bustling to campaign as the cutoff time for the elections approaches. Hours of campaigning and soliciting has had its ups and downs for candidates and their supporters. Tensions reached a boiling point Wednesday afternoon during […]

Slates provide a pool of resources and moral support for their candidates. Independents have the satisfaction of not having to align with slate lines. For the seven commissioner candidates, choosing whether to join a slate has influenced their campaigns, which culminate with the undergraduate student government election starting today. Four commissioner candidates are running under […]

After a series of endorsement hearings and debates, 30 student organizations on campus provided their approval and support for the candidates running in the undergraduate student government election. While some groups only endorsed candidates of a particular slate, other organizations endorsed candidates who were independent. With a history of support from ethnic student groups, it […]