Future of student loan interest rates is uncertain with passage of House bill

The fate of federal student loan interest rates is up in the air after the Republican-majority House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would tie interest rates to market-based rates. The bill is the House’s solution for subsidized federal student loan interest rates, which are set to double to 6.8 percent on July 1 […]

USAC Recap – May 28

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 approved contingency allocations with a vote of 9-0-1. Cultural Affairs Commissioner Jessica Trumble abstained from voting. The council approved the summer quorum […]

Conflict over changes to leave of absence policy continues

This article was updated on May 29 at 1:39 p.m. The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. Graduate students gave a presentation to the UCLA Academic Senate Graduate Council last Friday, in which they expressed concerns about changes made to […]

Professor incorporates Wikipedia into course syllabus

Her eyes grew wide and her speech sped up as Stephanie Solis discussed a preacher from the 1930s who led protests for farmer and labor rights, the topic of her first Wikipedia entry. The second-year history student, is one of 85 students writing and editing their own Wikipedia entries for the course American Working Class […]

Researchers work to prevent CASSEL closure

UCLA researchers are trying to prevent the closure of a prominent social science lab, which is scheduled to shut down early next month in order to create space for offices and classrooms. The California Social Science Experimental Laboratory, commonly known as CASSEL, is one of the largest experimental economics organizations in the world, said Hugo […]