The National Academy of Sciences elected three UCLA professors to its organization Tuesday. The UCLA inductees, coming from the disciplines of microbiology and immunology, chemical engineering and geography, are three of 84 members elected to the academy this year. James Liao, Glen MacDonald and Jeffrey Miller were inducted into the academy. The University of California […]
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Lit candle causes fire in Rieber Hall
A lit candle caused a fire in a room on the fifth floor of Rieber Hall, causing students to be evacuated from the dorm building late Tuesday evening, university police said. UCPD received a call at 10:09 p.m. reporting the fire, Lt. Richard Davis said. The room was vacant at the time of the fire, […]
USAC votes to investigate LET’S ACT! fundraising allegations
This post was updated on April 29 at 11:07 a.m. The undergraduate student government unanimously voted Tuesday night for the Election Board to investigate allegations that the LET’S ACT! slate used illegal fundraising tactics for multiple campaigns, possibly delaying the release of this year’s election results. Because elections cannot officially end until all complaints are […]
Preachers on Bruin Walk take different approaches in spreading gospel
The fight on Bruin Walk is against no less than eternal damnation. This is how the many loosely connected contingents of preachers who make the journey to the UCLA campus say they feel when they come out to preach. For Isidro Mendoza, the fight began in 1997 when he lost a brother, who was in […]
USAC recap – April 28
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every week on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff Hall 417 and are open to all students. Watch a live stream of the meeting on the USAC Live! Youtube channel. Agenda Council approved contingency […]
USAC approves change to guidelines on meeting live streams
UCLA’s undergraduate student government voted unanimously Tuesday to change the guidelines for council meeting live streams so future recordings require a majority vote of council to remove. The guideline changes come after the removal of a YouTube video of a controversial council meeting in February. The previous guidelines only required the Undergraduate Students Association Council […]
LET’S ACT! candidate posts about selling drugs, alcohol on Facebook
A Facebook event page and multiple posts appear to show that LET’S ACT! members sold alcohol and drugs for profit this year, though slate members say the funds did not support campaign efforts. On a publicly viewable event page called “A Nineties New Year in LA [‘92 +],” active members of the undergraduate student government […]