Author Archives: Udeitha Srimushnam

With the crowd of students along Bruin Walk cheering, doing the 8-clap and scarfing down pizza at midnight, it seemed like an impromptu campus party.

As delegates and visitors milled around the San Diego Convention Center on Saturday, UCLA students volunteered at candidate booths, handed out fliers for California Young Democrats and listened attentively to candidate speeches.

Of the 25 candidates running in the upcoming undergraduate student government elections, only five have chosen to sign a voluntary spending cap which would limit the money candidates can use to fund their campaigns.

The candidate orientation meeting for the Undergraduate Students Association Council kicked off election season on Tuesday night, as 24 candidates officially announced their intentions to run.

In 2002, right before leaving for boot camp, Okechukwu Ihenacho called his parents in Nigeria and told them he had enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. He said they were not thrilled but told him he could go on one condition ““ that he would eventually finish his education. Four years later, to make good […]

What struck Sergeant First Class Andrew Gasaway most about being in Iraq for the first time in March 2003, he said, was how apparent it was that the country had been governed by what he called a dictatorship. “Everything had Saddam on it ““ street signs, buildings, pictures,” said the now senior military instructor for […]

Under a proposal expected to be signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the California primary elections for the 2008 presidential office would be moved from June to February. Additionally, in an attempt to involve more voters in the elections process, the California Democratic Party will allow independents to vote in its primaries. Both the Democratic and […]