UCLA’s undergraduate student government voted last week to reduce the amount student political groups can spend on election campaigns in order to make campaigning more fair. The Undergraduate Students Association Council removed parts of an election code bylaw that allowed candidates running in student political groups called slates to raise an additional $200 for their […]
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Valet workers transferred from UCLA fear insourcing, loss of benefits
Edwin Cifuentes, a contracted valet worker at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, said many valet workers who are being transferred away from UCLA are worried their new jobs will not offer them the same wages or benefits UCLA provided. “They have family with medical problems. Being at UCLA, they have health insurance,” he said. […]
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Survey finds education cost worries more than half of first-year students
Incoming first-year undergraduate students are increasingly concerned with the cost of their education, a national survey found. The Cooperative Institutional Research Program Freshman Survey found 55.9 percent of incoming first-year students are at least somewhat concerned with the cost of their education and 13.3 percent have major concerns about financing their education. Each year, the Higher Education […]
CNN journalist Lisa Ling leads discussion on sexual education on the Hill
Students grabbed cookies and condoms on their way into an event on sexual education Thursday. Lisa Ling, a CNN journalist, led a discussion on sexual education in U.S. high schools and universities at “This is Sex with Lisa Ling – A Screening & Conversation” in Northwest Campus Auditorium on the Hill. Several UCLA organizations including […]
ASUCLA expects to lose more than $1M, plans to open more restaurants
This article was updated Oct. 6 at 11:05 a.m. The Associated Students UCLA is expected to lose more than $1 million this year. Robert Williams, ASUCLA’s executive director, said the organization has budgeted a $1,298,000 loss for ASUCLA’s Services and Enterprises entity this fiscal year because of decreasing textbook sales and growing labor costs. ASUCLA […]
UCLA economics department to launch concentrations in undergrad major
Economics students will soon be able to specialize their education by enrolling in a concentration that focuses on a particular goal or academic interest. The economics department is launching concentrations this quarter, which will be optional and consist of sets of suggested upper division courses that students in the department can take to focus on […]