UCLA student government officer to be arraigned on multiple charges

Undergraduate student government officer Omar Arce will be charged with three counts of sexual battery, one count of battery and one count of false imprisonment at his arraignment Friday afternoon, according to a Los Angeles City Attorney’s office spokesman. If he is convicted of all charges, he could face a maximum sentence of four and a half […]

USAC to revisit elections calendar amid voting period concerns

Undergraduate student government officials plan to reconsider an elections calendar they approved last quarter after some expressed concerns about a shortened voting time span. Polls are currently set to open for three days in May for the Undergraduate Students Association Council elections, though voting periods generally lasted four days in recent years. The USAC elections […]

USAC Recap – April 1

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 With a 10-0-1 vote, the council allocated $1,500 in discretionary funds to cover the costs of promotional materials for the 7,000 in […]

Students to help choose UCLA’s vice chancellor of diversity

Four months after announcing a new vice chancellor for diversity, UCLA is looking for two students to be on a committee to find someone to fill the position. The new search and advisory committee, which administrators expect to finalize by the end of spring quarter, will aid the university in a search for the new […]

Variety of candidates in GSA election raises competition

Students running for office in next week’s graduate student government elections will see contested races for the first time in several years. The Graduate Students Association, the representative governing body for UCLA’s graduate and professional schools, currently has two slates campaigning for positions on next year’s council. Slates are a group of students who run […]