UCLA released a video Thursday showing prominent campus leaders encouraging the university community to take a stand against sexual assault as part of an effort to bring attention to on-campus resources for survivors of sexual assault. The video features current and former UCLA students reading a composite of accounts from real sexual assault stories. In […]
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Student group creates map to track sexual assaults at UCLA
An undergraduate student government group meant to combat sexual harassment on campus is looking for student input for an online map that tracks the locations of sexual assaults at UCLA. Survivors of sexual assault and harassment can anonymously add their stories to the Google form, along with the time and location of the assault, with […]
GSA recap – April 16
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. Agenda GSA unanimously approved this year’s election results. Mike Hirshman, a student at the […]
Jon Huntsman, former ambassador to China, speaks at UCLA
Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. urged UCLA students Wednesday night to become more involved in the American political process and to not let the U.S. government’s partisanship disillusion them. “This country does not have problems it cannot fix. But we have had human failure,” Huntsman said. The former ambassador to China and 2012 Republican […]
Revised rainy day fund proposes increased reserves
California Gov. Jerry Brown called for a special state legislature session next week to press for support for his revised reserve fund ballot proposal. Four years ago, the legislature approved a proposal for a new rainy day fund to be on the November 2014 ballot. Brown is now pitching a revised reserve fund that would […]
GSA elections’ turnout reaches all-time high since 2009
Candidates from the Moving Forward slate swept the two officer seats they contested in this year’s unusually competitive graduate student government elections. Mike “Hershey” Hirshman, a UCLA Anderson School of Management student, was elected GSA president with a 963-510 vote. “Overall, I think we had strong turnout, which indicates that our community was involved in […]
Former Election Board member against shorter voting period
A former member of the undergraduate student government election board is formally challenging the current board’s decision to shorten the election voting period. Next week, the Undergraduate Students Association Council Judicial Board plans to review a petition calling for the current elections calendar to be extended. This year’s voting period shrunk from four days to […]