USAC Election Board extends application deadline for prospective candidates

The original version of this article contained multiple errors and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. The Undergraduate Student Association Council Election Board has extended the deadline to apply for candidacy for the upcoming elections to Tuesday, after there was confusion over two dates listed as deadlines in the […]

Graduate students to vote on candidates, ballot referendums

For the second year in a row, only one candidate is running for each of the four Graduate Student Association positions – president, vice president of internal affairs, vice president of external affairs and vice president of academic affairs. The ballot also includes an advisory referendum and a fee referendum.

Lawsuit challenges Luskin Center project’s tax exemptions

Local nonprofit Save Westwood Village and others filed a lawsuit with the Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday to oppose UCLA’s planned Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference and Guest Center – the second lawsuit regarding the center in the past year. The center, which is expected to be completed in 2016, will house 25,000 square […]

School of Dentistry gains $11 million through another donation from advocacy group

The UCLA School of Dentistry recently received $11 million from an L.A.-based child advocacy group to expand the scope of its dental care services in Los Angeles County, especially for low-income children and pregnant women. In July, the advocacy group, called First 5 LA, gave a separate $9.23 million donation to create the UCLA-First 5 […]

The We Speak English Project fosters conversational learning of language

At just 19 years old, Matt Wright found doctors, engineers and chemists calling him “professor.” Wright said he felt undeserving of this title, even though he was helping the professionals learn to speak English. “My mission is to make learning English more social,” said Wright, a third-year Spanish and linguistics student who started the We […]