The slow, stretched jazz notes of Miles Davis’ “Blue in Green” harmonized with the rhythm of focused fingers smoothing little, bright blue squares of paper. The last of the students settled into their desks, ready to get to work on their origami – the chalkboard was already covered in a disarray of diagrams. In a […]
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USAC Recap – Nov. 19
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Agenda The council unanimously approved contingency funding allocations with an 11-0-1 vote. USAC Financial Supports Commissioner Lauren Rogers abstained from voting. The council set week […]
Students defend professor after sit-in over racial climate
Current and former students in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies expressed their support for professor emeritus Val Rust following a demonstration in one of his graduate classes last Thursday. Student demonstrators alleged that there is a “toxic” racial climate in the graduate school, including in Rust’s classroom. Organizers told the Daily Bruin […]
Professor teaches about the Baha’i Faith
As a young atheist, Nader Saiedi felt that his family’s religion contradicted his trust in reason. The current UCLA professor could not reconcile what he believed were inconsistencies between faith and reason until he began researching the Baha’i Faith – a religion the Iranian government considers heretical, Saiedi said. The Baha’i Faith is a minority […]
Student groups struggle with funding application process
An inefficient application process has prevented some student groups from obtaining money from a fund designed to support them. This fall, hundreds of student groups requested funding from the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Student Organizations Operational Fund, commonly known as SOOF – a resource for student group supplies, advertising and other operational costs. Each year, […]
New English course caters exclusively to transfer students
A new class was added to the course catalog this quarter for about half of the students in the English major – transfer students.
Sleep pods deemed not financially feasible
The Associated Students UCLA Finance Committee did not vote on a proposal to install sleep pods in Ackerman Union at its Friday meeting, claiming that the current plan was not financially feasible. The pod proposal was passed by ASUCLA’s Services Committee last month after it was suggested by Adam Swart, an undergraduate representative on the […]