Associated Students UCLA is a multimillion-dollar organization that provides student services and activities that the university does not fund. It oversees the Undergraduate Students Association Council, Graduate Students Association, Communications Board, campus services and enterprises. Proposals Members approved spending about $90,000 to update the heating, ventilation and air conditioning management system in Ackerman Union and […]
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Former UCLA water polo player accepts plea deal for assault charges
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced a former UCLA water polo player to 180 days in jail and five years of probation Thursday after he pleaded no contest to one charge of assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury and one charge of making a criminal threat.
Bruin Value Investing club holds first stock pitch competition
This post was updated on Jan. 26 at 10:17 a.m. Students dressed in business suits brought Wall Street action to UCLA on Friday as part of the first stock pitch competition for the Bruin Value Investing club. Contestants had a week and a half since the kickoff event on Jan. 12 to prepare a stock […]
Phi Kappa Psi continues to rebuild after chapter’s re-establishment
Almost two years after jackhammers tore down the remains of the Phi Kappa Psi house on fraternity row, a newly built $7.5 million fraternity house stands in its place, ready to house a chapter with a fresh focus on service. Phi Kappa Psi re-established its chapter at UCLA in September with a founding class of […]
UCLA chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity rescinds charter
The UCLA chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha stopped operating as an official campus fraternity Wednesday because of financial problems. The fraternity internally decided to pull its charter because it could not pay off its debts of between $10,000 and $25,000 to the national Pi Kappa Alpha organization, said Matthew Li, president of the chapter and […]
Man arrested in connection with UCLA alumnus stabbing to stand trial
A judge ordered a Los Angeles man Tuesday to stand trial for the attempted murder of UCLA alumnus John DeMartini on Christmas Eve. Edris Lamont Banks, 46, appeared in front of L.A. County Superior Court Commissioner Mark Zuckman in the Airport Courthouse during a preliminary hearing Tuesday, where Zuckman heard witnesses describe the stabbing. Police […]
UCLA student groups hold vigil for victims of Charlie Hebdo attack
About 70 students gathered in Meyerhoff Park Monday night to express solidarity with the victims of the recent attacks at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and at a Jewish supermarket near Porte de Vincennes, France.