A brother-and-sister team recently built a website designed to encourage people to conserve 20 million gallons of water, the amount lost during the July water main break that flooded UCLA. Hilary Kraft, an alumna of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, worked with her brother Richard Kraft to build Make It Up LA!, which they […]
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Proposed diversity requirement meets some faculty opposition
Students and a group of faculty are lobbying professors to vote “yes” on a proposed diversity requirement this week, but several faculty are pushing back against the measure. Faculty members have until Friday to vote on whether they think students should be required to take a course related to diversity during their UCLA career. Backers […]
UCLA Recreation holds contest to name gym on the Hill
UCLA Recreation officials are asking members of the university community to suggest potential names for the new gym expected to open on the Hill next fall. The contest is open to students, faculty, staff, alumni and UCLA Recreation members, who can submit names on an online form. The 14,000 square-foot fitness center will be open […]
GSA recap – Oct. 22
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 Student representatives from various graduate and professional schools talked with members of a search […]
Bruin Diversity Referendum fails due to insufficient voter turnout
A referendum to increase quarterly student fees by about $10 to fund diversity-related programs did not pass Friday because voter turnout fell short of the 20 percent threshold in the undergraduate student government special election. Just 13.6 percent of eligible undergraduate students voted in the Undergraduate Students Association Council special election this week. Though the […]
Sadeghi-Movahed, Haq elected to transfer, general representative seats
This post was updated on Oct. 26 at 5:20 p.m. Students elected Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed to the newly created transfer student representative seat and Sofia Moreno Haq to the general representative 2 seat on the undergraduate student government council Friday. The Undergraduate Students Association Council special election saw a 13.6 percent voter turnout, a small number […]
Proposed diversity requirement may have more support than in past
A new diversity course requirement is up for a faculty vote starting Friday, and this time, proponents are hoping it has enough teeth to pass. The requirement would have undergraduate students in the College of Letters and Science take one course at UCLA that takes a deeper look at groups through racial, ethnic or socioeconomic […]