Author Archives: Shaudee Navid

At 5 a.m., while most students are still asleep, others strategically plan how to claim a table on Bruin Walk to advertise their student groups. Strolling through the stretch ““ beginning from the dorms and ending in the Royce Hall plaza ““ is no easy feat as dozens of students and group leaders bombard fellow […]

While most people use vegetable oil for cooking their french fries, some use it to power their cars. On Thursday and Friday students stood in awe as a 60-foot articulated city bus, driven solely on recycled vegetable oil, rolled through campus. Sporting a massive stereo system on the roof of what once was a New […]

Students buying textbooks from the Associated Students of UCLA textbook store were in for a treat as they received coupon booklets offering students a variety of savings around campus. Though most students spend several hundred dollars on textbooks every quarter, purchasing these books from the textbook store may help them save money this time around. […]

Since its establishment in 1919 as the second University of California campus, UCLA has been repeatedly renowned for excelling in research and providing a good education, yet some students and faculty believe there is still something lacking ““ the inclusion of a diversity requirement in the existing general education curriculum. Out of the eight undergraduate […]

Upon the completion of two new residence halls and the arrival of 2,000 more students on the Hill, the demand for recreational facilities for dorm residents will increase and continue to do so in upcoming years. But with each new facility added, the surrounding Westwood community has a say in the way things unfold. This […]

From funding student groups to influencing what eateries are available on campus, the Undergraduate Students Association Council ““ an entity on campus of which most are unaware ““ heavily impacts student life at UCLA. USAC consists of 13 offices and over 100 students and is a leadership body where students can get involved in various […]

The newly elected officers of the Graduate Student Association were officially sworn in to office in the council’s final meeting of the year Wednesday night. The meeting started out slowly when quorum could not be met. Only needing one more voting member, GSA officers decided to swear in the new officers, allowing Haig Hovsepian, former […]