Day after day, students go to lecture, to discussion and then do their homework. Once they leave discussion they may assume that their teaching assistant does the same thing, but the responsibility of a TA goes far beyond what students see in discussion. TRANSCRIPT: Walls: Day after day, students go to lecture, to discussion and […]
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Voter turnout improves despite lowered USAC Election Board budget
This year’s undergraduate student government’s election had a 40.3 percent voter turnout, one of the highest in years, despite cuts in the election board’s budget. The board’s budget decreased from $37,000 in 2015 to $26,000 in 2016, to accommodate decreasing USAC funds. USAC Election Board Chair Lindsay Allen said the board moved campaign efforts from […]
Director, founders reflect on 20 years of LGBT Campus Resource Center
Twenty years ago, UCLA faculty members held secret, off-campus meetings to discuss their struggles as closeted LGBT individuals on campus. Their gatherings have since led to the establishment of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Campus Resource Center – one of the largest in the country, said Ronni Sanlo, director of the center from 1997 to […]
Students approve all four referenda on USAC election ballot
Students voted to pass all four referenda on the undergraduate student government election ballot Friday. More than half of students who voted in the election supported The Green Initiative Fund referendum, the Social Justice Referendum of 2016, the #UCLAwellness Referendum and the Daily Bruin and Bruinwalk.com Referendum. The 2016 election had a voter turnout of […]
Bruins United sails past Waves of Change in 2016 USAC election
This post was updated May 6 at 8 p.m. Bruins United secured nine of 14 seats on the next undergraduate student government council, and students voted to pass all four referenda on the ballot. About 40 percent of undergraduate students voted in the 2016 USAC election, the highest voter turnout since 2009. This year, 11,281 […]
Daily Bruin polls UCLA community on USAC election
Editor’s note: The results mentioned in this post are not the official results of the undergraduate student government election. Responses were gathered anonymously through a survey available to all students on dailybruin.com. In a Daily Bruin poll, all three Waves of Change candidates received majority votes for their respective contested positions. The poll, which includes […]
UCLA ranked No. 13 globally by Times Higher Education
UCLA is ranked No. 13 in the Times Higher Education World Reputation rankings for the second consecutive year, after dropping from 10th place in 2014 Every year, the Times Higher Education World Reputation, a ranking organization, publishes a list of 100 universities considered to be the most reputable by scholars. UCLA was ranked No. 10 […]