The undergraduate student government unanimously voted Tuesday night to invest $10,000 of its surplus funds into its endowment and to change the formula by which surplus funding is distributed across funds that support student group programming. The Undergraduate Students Association Council did not allocate any money to council initiatives and no councilmembers asked for funding […]
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Turkish Cultural Club appeals against ASA resolution to divest from Turkey
This article has been updated at 8:36 p.m. on Jan. 14.
The Turkish Cultural Club appealed to the undergraduate student government Tuesday to vote against a resolution drafted by the Armenian Students’ Association calling for the University of California to divest from the Republic of Turkey.
Geffen School of Medicine dean resigns, accepts position at Duke
The vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA resigned Chancellor Gene Block announced on Tuesday.
Construction on Rendezvous proves an inconvenience to Hill residents
Shannon Jessen was sleeping in her room in Rieber Terrace when her desk began to shake and the noise of jackhammers reverberated off the walls. Standing barefoot on the ground, she was able to feel constant movement, Jessen, a first-year economics student, said. It was 8 a.m. and construction on Rendezvous had begun. The construction […]
UCLA the most applied-to four-year university in US for fall 2015
UCLA saw a record number of applications for fall 2015 admission, with more than 112,000 students applying from many different backgrounds, states and countries, but the overall demographics of California applicants changed very little. The number of applicants increased by 6.5 percent overall from last year, with about 92,680 first-year and about 20,060 transfer applicants. […]
JazzReggae Festival to be shortened in face of budget deficit
The JazzReggae Festival will be shortened to one day this year from its usual two because of a budget deficit caused by unexpected costs of last year’s festival. The 29th iteration of the festival will be changed to one day to cut logistical costs and leave room for any unanticipated spending, said Jasmine Pierik, co-executive […]
New MyUCLA feature gives students option of adding preferred name
A feature added to MyUCLA last week allows students to give UCLA their preferred name, which will then appear on some academic student records. The feature, which was added under “Settings” on MyUCLA, lets students request that a preferred name, a name chosen by the student that differs from his or her legal name, be […]