This article was updated at 2:59 p.m. on April 30. Some students groups are pushing to pass a quarterly $3 fee increase referendum this week to combat decreases in undergraduate student government funds, while other students are questioning why they should have to pay for it. If passed, the student group event referendum would generate […]
Category Archives: Student Government
USAC votes to investigate LET’S ACT! fundraising allegations
This post was updated on April 29 at 11:07 a.m. The undergraduate student government unanimously voted Tuesday night for the Election Board to investigate allegations that the LET’S ACT! slate used illegal fundraising tactics for multiple campaigns, possibly delaying the release of this year’s election results. Because elections cannot officially end until all complaints are […]
USAC recap – April 28
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every week on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff Hall 417 and are open to all students. Watch a live stream of the meeting on the USAC Live! Youtube channel. Agenda Council approved contingency […]
USAC approves change to guidelines on meeting live streams
UCLA’s undergraduate student government voted unanimously Tuesday to change the guidelines for council meeting live streams so future recordings require a majority vote of council to remove. The guideline changes come after the removal of a YouTube video of a controversial council meeting in February. The previous guidelines only required the Undergraduate Students Association Council […]
LET’S ACT! candidate posts about selling drugs, alcohol on Facebook
A Facebook event page and multiple posts appear to show that LET’S ACT! members sold alcohol and drugs for profit this year, though slate members say the funds did not support campaign efforts. On a publicly viewable event page called “A Nineties New Year in LA [‘92 +],” active members of the undergraduate student government […]
GSA candidate appeals election board decision on complaint
The graduate student government Election Board delayed releasing election results Tuesday night after a candidate appealed for the government’s forum to re-evaluate a complaint he made during the election process. Matthew FitzGerald, a law student and candidate for the Graduate Students Association vice president of external affairs position, filed a complaint to the Election Board […]
Q&A: USAC general representative candidate talks The After Party platforms
Jason Ergina, a candidate running for this year’s general representative office in the Undergraduate Students Association Council election, talked with John Peter Cavender, a Daily Bruin contributor, on Monday about his campaign platforms and why he decided to run for USAC. The first-year economics student and sole candidate in the new The After Party slate, […]