The Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center opened a new student optometry store in Ackerman Union on Tuesday, doubling its selection of glasses and making its optometry services available to faculty and staff for the first time. The brightly lit store, named U See LA Optometry, is tucked in the back of the UCLA […]
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UCLA Library to institute uniform loan periods
Starting Monday, books and journals at the UCLA Library will each have uniform loan periods. Before the change, the amount of time students and faculty could check out library materials varied from item to item, even if materials were categorized together. The policy change is meant to make borrowing materials and managing checked-out items at […]
UCSA recap – June 28
The University of California Student Association represents almost all undergraduate and graduate student governments at UC campuses. The organization’s Board of Directors typically meets every month at a different UC campus. Agenda After a public comment, the board passed a motion to have an emergency meeting on student regent-designate nominee Avi Oved, a fourth-year economics […]
Cap and gown drive to help student graduation costs
Throughout the summer and school year, undergraduate student government members will collect used graduation caps and gowns to rent, free of charge, to future graduating students. The Cap and Gown Donation drive, which began during 10th week, is meant to help mitigate graduation costs for UCLA students, said Undergraduate Students Association Council General Representative 1 […]
Funding increase helps labor center serve community
In the dining hall where she worked even before her first day of classes at UCLA, Rosemarie Molina felt at home with the dishwashers and cooks who went on strike within her first week of employment. The dining hall job gave Molina her first taste of the struggle for labor rights, which she said would […]
USAC to release USSA, UCSA student delegate applications
Students can apply to be UCLA delegates for upcoming statewide and nationwide conferences starting Tuesday. The Undergraduate Students Association Council External Vice President’s office will release two applications for the delegate positions on its Facebook page this week. The applications are due at 11:59 p.m. on July 15. The conferences will take place in California […]
Class designs website mapping unsafe campus “hotspots”
Students identified what they described as eight unsafe “hotspots” on the UCLA campus in a website created last quarter for an honors class. They also suggested ways the university could improve campus safety in response to violent crimes around UCLA. The website, called “Policies for a Safer Campus,” listed eight places on campus that the […]