GSA recap – May 11

The Graduate Students Association is the voice of graduate students on campus. The association meets for forum every three weeks and takes positions on current issues affecting graduate students. Forum meetings are at 5:30 p.m. in the Global Viewpoint Lounge in Ackerman Union. Agenda: The association unanimously approved to add a first-generation graduate student council […]

USAC Election Board to reinvestigate voter coercion allegations

This post was updated May 11 at 10:31 a.m. The Undergraduate Students Association Council Judicial Board ruled Thursday that the USAC Election Board must reinvestigate complaint cases related to voter coercion and issue a new sanction on a case alleging attempted voter coercion. The judicial board unanimously ruled in favor of a petition claiming the election […]

USAC Election Board admits to inadequately investigating voter coercion complaint

The undergraduate student government election board said during a judicial board hearing Wednesday it failed to adequately investigate a complaint about attempted voter coercion. The judicial board held a hearing Wednesday night for a petition against the election board that claimed it failed to fully investigate complaint cases related to voter coercion and did not […]

Judicial board postpones swearing in of next year’s council

This was post was updated May 9 at 10:23 a.m. The undergraduate student government judicial board decided to review a petition against the election board and postponed the swearing in of next year’s council. Ramneek Hazrah and Matthew William Richard filed a petition against the election board, claiming the board failed to fully investigate and […]

Academic Affairs Commission office door vandalized with homophobic slur

A homophobic slur was found on an undergraduate student government office door Sunday morning. The Undergraduate Students Association Council Academic Affairs Commission’s door was vandalized with the word “fag,” said Divya Sharma, Academic Affairs commissioner. This is the second time Sharma’s office was targeted in the past few weeks. A pride flag that was hanging […]

Bruins United president leads majority independent council

This post was updated May 4 at 7:52 p.m. A Bruins United candidate secured the president position for the fourth year in a row. This year’s election featured 39 candidates running for nine contested positions, composed of 19 independents, nine Bruins United candidates and 11 candidates from three new slates. Three out of the nine […]

Bruins United sanctioned for violating student’s right to vote in privacy

The undergraduate student government election board sanctioned Bruins United on Friday morning for infringing upon a student’s right to vote in privacy at the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house. Bruins United candidates Victoria Solkovits, running for external vice president, and Bella Martin, running for general representative, were sanctioned because the board found Solkovits’ and Martin’s […]