Students can vote whether to pay a $3 quarterly fee that supports the Daily Bruin and other campus media organizations in the spring undergraduate student government election. The Undergraduate Students Association Council voted 11-1-0 Tuesday night to add a referendum to the ballot that aims to finance the Daily Bruin and Bruinwalk.com. Academic Affairs Commissioner […]
Category Archives: Student Government
USAC campaign aims to provide students with free menstrual products
An undergraduate student government office will set up a menstrual product donation box outside Kerckhoff Hall 313 Wednesday, and create free kits for students available in Kerckhoff offices next quarter. Aaliya Khan, an Undergraduate Students Association Council general representative, said she started the Menstrual Product Campaign because students do not have access to free menstrual […]
ASUCLA Board of Directors recap – Feb. 26
Associated Students UCLA is a multimillion-dollar organization that provides student services and activities that the university does not fund. It oversees the Undergraduate Students Association Council, Graduate Students Association, Communications Board, campus services and enterprises. Board of Directors meetings are monthly and open to the public. Executive reports Executive director Bob Williams said sales in […]
ASUCLA to build new walls around Ackerman Union prayer space
Associated Students UCLA will build walls around the nondenominational prayer space in Ackerman Union. Construction began last week and is expected to cost ASUCLA between $5,000 and $15,000, said Roy Champawat, director of the student union. Champawat added renovations should conclude within the next few days, but could not confirm a date. In December, ASUCLA […]
Committee votes to dissolve investigation into GSA president’s actions
Editor’s note: The original version of this article contained numerous errors, which were brought to our attention by several Graduate Students Association officials as well as others. Here are the errors: The committee voted Monday, not Tuesday, to dissolve the investigation. The vote was 8-1, not 5-2. The resolution passed Feb. 10 did not call […]
USAC panel challenges stereotypes, taboo around sex addiction
Adi Jaffe sat before a group of 20 students Tuesday evening and shared a single text message from his wife that changed his life. “She said she’d found my Ashley Madison account,” said Jaffe, a psychology professor. “But it was only one iteration of a much deeper problem.” Jaffe said Ashley Madison is an online […]
UCLA may offset increasing enrollment with added online classes
Increases in student enrollment is one of the factors that contributed to a 35-class increase in online courses offered over the past three years, said an undergraduate student government council member. The increase in online classes from three offered in 2013 to 38 offered now is a response to the growing number of students enrolled […]