This post was updated on March 10 at 11:59 p.m. The undergraduate student government recently took down a YouTube video of a controversial council meeting after several councilmembers received death threats and hate mail accusing them of being anti-Semitic. On Feb. 10, several members of the Undergraduate Students Association Council raised concerns about the appointment […]
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Bengali Students Association celebrates culture, commemorates holidays
Ejaz Ahmed, a Bangladesh native, recounted his family’s experience during the 1971 Bengali independence struggle at an on-campus event Wednesday night. “We were kept in prison camps for months,” he said. “No one below the age of 12 could roam the streets without being slaughtered. We didn’t know what was happening, and it was terrifying” […]
Anderson Wine Club to compete in wine-tasting finals in France
Michael Peck spent the summer after his college graduation in a Napa Valley wine cellar, pitching yeast into a grape skin and juice mixture and filling 1,000 barrels with fresh red and white wine. On his rare days off, he would “sip and spit” his way through six wineries a day in an attempt to […]
Student groups discuss racial profiling against South Asians
More than a quarter of the nearly 40 South Asian and Middle Eastern students in the room raised their hands when a speaker asked if they had ever been called a terrorist. Following the Feb. 10 Chapel Hill shootings that led to the death of three Muslim Americans and the Feb. 12 police assault of […]
Students stop by the Hill to make sandwiches for the homeless
Tubs of peanut butter and jelly lay open across a sticky table in De Neve Plaza as students crowded around, chatting about classes and debating the advantages of crunchy and creamy. The student group Swipes for the Homeless held a quarterly event Thursday called Sandwiches for Smiles, letting students stop by to make sandwiches for […]
New housing system causes confusion among students
UCLA Housing is requiring undergraduate students to find their own roommates before signing up for on-campus or university housing for the first time this year. Because of the change, some students said they have not been able to get into the room they preferred and others have struggled to find students to form official roommate […]
GSA recap – March 4
The Graduate Students Association is the voice of graduate students on campus. The association meets for forum every three weeks and takes positions on current issues affecting graduate students. Forum meetings are at 5:30 p.m. in the Ackerman Viewpoint Lounge. Agenda Ryan Snyder, of the Ryan Snyder Associates urban planning and transportation firm, presented the […]