Leaders of Asian Pacific Islander student groups from UCLA and USC demanded that UCLA administrators improve campus racial climate by increasing funding for cultural groups and ethnic studies departments at a town hall meeting on Wednesday. The UCLA Asian Pacific Coalition and two USC student groups, the Asian Pacific American Student Assembly and the Student […]
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UCLA groups host panel to open discussion on male sexual assault
UCLA students gathered Wednesday night to discuss how men are affected by sexual assault, as part of a larger discussion about the silence of male sexual assault survivors and stereotypes surrounding the issue. The panel event was co-hosted by 7,000 in Solidarity, an undergraduate student government campaign against sexual assault at UCLA, and the Student […]
UCLA updates policy to allow petitions for longer leave of absence
Graduate students who are struggling financially can now take time off from school, after administrators and faculty members made changes to the university’s leave of absence policy Friday. UCLA’s Graduate Council and the Graduate Division upgraded the policy in hopes of helping students who are having financial problems to stay enrolled at UCLA even if […]
UC endowment has worst investment returns among largest US college funds
The University of California’s $11.2 billion endowment has produced the worst investment returns of the 10 richest colleges in the country over the past decade, an analysis by The Center for Investigative Reporting shows.
USAC Recap – Feb. 18
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are held on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Agenda Several members of Students for Justice in Palestine spoke about changes the group has made to a resolution it plans to bring […]
UCLA CTO distributes lottery tickets for Clinton speech
Hundreds of students in line to get tickets to see Hillary Clinton speak on campus in March formed a mob early Wednesday morning.
UCLA plans five projects to reduce water usage by 2020
UCLA has allocated hundreds of thousands of dollars and implemented five projects to meet its required goal of reducing water usage by 11 percent over the next six years. University of California President Janet Napolitano announced last month all UC campuses must meet a 20 percent reduction in water usage by 2020. UCLA officials started […]