Some visitors to the Los Angeles State Historic Park might not notice, but many of the events of the city’s first century took place within eyeshot of the park. The first hospital, cemetery and train station were all built around the park, and the city grew around the land that eventually became it. To improve […]
Category Archives: Campus
USAC election candidates sanctioned for submitting late expense reports
The undergraduate student government Election Board barred two candidates from fliering on campus for all of Thursday after they did not report their campaign spending totals on time. Though they spent about $1,700 campaigning in total, transfer student representative candidate Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed and general representative 2 candidate Sofia Moreno Haq reported that they did not […]
Special election campaign funding significantly lower than previous races
Candidates and referendum representatives spent about $9,700 campaigning in this week’s undergraduate student government election, less than half of what has typically been committed to recent races in the spring.
Students gather to protest mass incarceration and police brutality
A few fake tombstones and pictures of those killed by police filled the grass in front of Kerckhoff Hall Wednesday afternoon as students gathered to demonstrate against mass incarceration and police brutality. About a dozen students gathered around, some voicing their own experiences with police brutality. At the same time as the protest, Van Jones, […]
GSA to hold election to fill vice president of internal fairs position
The graduate student government unanimously approved a two-week-long election calendar Wednesday night to fill the vice president of internal affairs position.
Rally promotes student, faculty support for diversity requirement
At a rally Wednesday night, event organizers urged UCLA students to demonstrate their support for the diversity requirement during the next week through a variety of campaigns. The Diversity Requirement Lobby Corps, a committee in the Undergraduate Students Association Council Academic Affairs Commission, organized the event along with Allyson Bach, the USAC academic affairs commissioner. […]
Majority of USAC special election candidates campaigning as pairs
The majority of the independent candidates in this week’s undergraduate student government election are combining resources and campaigning as two-person teams in the absence of official slate participation. Of the five candidates running in the Undergraduate Students Association Council special election, only one transfer student representative candidate does not have a partnership with another student. […]