This post was updated May 26 at 5:36 p.m. Petitioners alleged the undergraduate student government election board did not issue a reasonable sanction for voter coercion at a judicial board hearing Friday. The Undergraduate Students Association Council Judicial Board heard a petition filed by Ramneek Hazrah and Matthew Richard against the election board following a […]
Category Archives: Student Government
USAC Election Board chair claims the council acted unconstitutionally
The Election Board Chair claimed the undergraduate student government has violated its constitution by ordering the judicial board during its Tuesday meeting to accept a petition against the election board. The Undergraduate Students Association Council Judicial Board held a hearing by petitioner Jack Price, election board chair, who claimed USAC violated its constitution by delaying […]
USAC recap – May 22
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Watch a livestream of the meetings on the USAC Live! channel on YouTube, which can be accessed with a ucla.edu […]
Judicial board ordered to review petition against election board
This post was updated May 23 at 12:53 p.m. The undergraduate student government voted to order the judicial board to review a petition against the election board at its council meeting Tuesday night. The Undergraduate Students Association Council unanimously voted to override judicial board’s decision to not review Petition 18-6, filed by Matthew William Richard […]
USAC hosts town hall to gather feedback in creating ISR position bylaws
Students called on undergraduate student government leaders to ensure that the new international student representative office will fight for international students’ financial wellness, mental health and legal rights at a town hall Monday. The Undergraduate Students Association Council general representative 2 office hosted an international student town hall to gather feedback on how to write […]
Judicial board rejects petition against election board
The undergraduate student government judicial board rejected a petition against the election board Monday. Ramneek Hazrah and Matthew William Richard filed a petition against the election board, claiming the election board violated judicial board orders by failing to issue a reasonable sanction for Sanction Case 59 after finding that Bruins United candidates Bella Martin and […]
USAC candidates say campaigns mostly unchanged even with reimbursements
Candidates who applied for reimbursements for this year’s undergraduate student government election campaign spendings will receive about $100. Thirty-five of the 39 candidates who ran in this year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council election applied to be reimbursed for their campaign spending. Each candidate will receive up to $107.14 from 10 percent of the election board’s […]