The Associated Students UCLA board of directors will vote Friday on whether to spend up to $300,000 on renovations for the Global Viewpoint Lounge in Ackerman Union. The renovated room would better accommodate UCLA admissions presentations, which UCLA has hosted in the Global Viewpoint Lounge for more than a year. ASUCLA officials are also considering […]
Category Archives: Student Government
USAC unanimously approves mandatory campaign spending limits
The undergraduate student government unanimously approved mandatory spending caps of $850 for candidates running for executive offices and $750 for candidates running for any other office Tuesday. The move marks the first time since 2003 that candidates running for the Undergraduate Students Association Council will be held to mandatory spending limits in their campaigns. Election […]
USAC recap — Feb. 24
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 417 and are open to all students. Watch a live stream of the meeting on the USAC Live! YouTube channel. Agenda Council allocated about $3,000 […]
Chancellor Block criticizes campus climate-related incidents
This article was updated at 1:25 a.m. on Feb 25. Chancellor Gene Block sent a campuswide email Tuesday criticizing the recent posting of offensive fliers about Students for Justice in Palestine and the questioning of a student’s qualifications based on her Jewish identity. Block expressed concern in the statement about posters found Sunday around UCLA […]
ASUCLA Finance Committee recap – Feb. 20
Members of the Associated Students UCLA Finance Committee and the Communications Board discussed the association’s finances and possible models for UCLA Student Media at their monthly meeting Friday. Budgets In January, The UCLA store had high sales in areas such as textbooks, which have low profit margins, and low sales in high-profit areas such as […]
USAC recap – Feb. 17
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 417 and are open to all students. Watch a live stream of the meeting on the USAC Live! Youtube Channel. Agenda Councilmembers unanimously approved the […]
USAC approves five-day election calendar
This article has been updated at 5:46 p.m. See the bottom of the article for more details. Spring’s undergraduate student government elections will span from Monday to Friday for the first time in the past eight years, after councilmembers approved an election calendar with several nontraditional dates Tuesday night. Undergraduate Students Association Council elections typically […]