The undergraduate student government Judicial Board is set to review a Daily Bruin petition calling for the Election Board to have no authority over non-paid media coverage. On Monday, the Undergraduate Students Association Council Election Board told USAC presidential candidates they could be sanctioned if they appeared on the Daily Bruin’s news and culture radio […]
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Over $25,000 spent in USAC election campaigns
Campaign supporters and the majority of students running for undergraduate student government offices spent more than $25,000 to promote candidates and engage the student body in the spring election this year. Three main slates ran candidates in the Undergraduate Students Association Council election. Bruins United spent the most, with a total of about $10,200, or […]
Angela Davis returns to speak at Royce Hall after almost 50 years
More than 45 years after being fired from her UCLA professorship for being in the Communist Party, renowned civil rights activist Angela Davis returned to speak about institutional racism Thursday at Royce Hall, where she had given a speech on freedom almost half a century ago. Davis is known for her work in advocating for […]
UCLA student groups organize protest against drones
A few students from several student groups lay on the ground and pretended to be dead on Thursday as part of a protest against the use of drones in American warfare. Members of Amnesty International at UCLA reached out to several groups to participate in their protest Thursday. Young Americans for Liberty, Bruin Democrats, Bruin […]
‘United We Stand Festival’ cancelled, scheduled to relocate
UCLA cancelled a political education festival that would have occurred at Pauley Pavilion this Saturday because it said the event’s organizers failed to pay on time for use of the facility. Free and Equal Elections Foundation, an organization that aims to “bring political power back to the people through education,” organized a United We Stand […]
GSA recap – May 7
The UCLA 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 7 p.m. in the Ackerman Viewpoint Lounge. Officer reports GSA President Nicole Robinson said the Master’s and Ph.D. Career conference on […]
Q&A: Satirical USAC candidate Sachin Medhekar shares platform
Sachin Medhekar, a satirical candidate running for this year’s General Representative office in the Undergraduate Students Association Council election, recently talked with Daily Bruin campus reporter Jasmine Aquino about his campaign platforms and why he decided to run for USAC. The third-year computer science student and sole candidate of the new ¡Bruin Satyrists! slate spoke […]