Undergraduate student government officials postponed a vote on a resolution calling for Proposition 13 reform on Monday. Undergraduate Students Association Council External Vice President Maryssa Hall drafted the resolution, but pulled it from the Tuesday meeting agenda after learning that multiple council members would not be able to attend the meeting. “We just feel it […]
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Hunger Project at UCLA provides free SAT prep to LA students
From his family’s one-bedroom apartment in West Los Angeles, Stiven Pesjaka treks to UCLA alone on Saturday mornings for free SAT tutoring. The high school junior wants a high test score so he can get into the college of his choice and achieve his goal of becoming a mechanical engineer. His end goal is earning enough […]
Amendment against immediate USAC stipend increases proposed
Undergraduate student government officials submitted a proposal for review Sunday that would prevent future councils from raising their own stipends. The Undergraduate Students Association Council voted this past summer to increase councilmembers’ monthly stipends from $355 to $672 a month. The decision saw backlash from the student body, including a call by a coalition of […]
USAC endowment avoids loss with UCLA Foundation refund
The undergraduate student government will receive about $6,500 from the UCLA Foundation, after a miscommunication about administrative costs involved with an endowment for student programing. Last school year, the Undergraduate Students Association Council established a $100,000 endowment with the UCLA Foundation, a business entity that manages investments for the university. The funds came from USAC’s […]
Petition calls for reinstatement of three-week winter break
More than 21,000 people have signed a petition calling for University of California officials to shift the academic calendars of some UC schools and keep winter break three weeks long.
USAC in search of funds for campus safety app
Undergraduate student government officials are searching for funding from different campus departments to create a campus safety smartphone application after returning a $15,500 allocation last week.
UCLA Blood and Platelet Center hopes to draw more donations
Officials at the UCLA Blood and Platelet Center have seen fewer donations than usual this quarter. There were 24 fewer donors at the center’s Ackerman location in the first week of winter quarter compared to this time last year, said Faye Cortez, community liaison for the center. “While it might not seem like much, when […]