The Bruins United slate is holding an open applications process for the first time ever to find candidates to run in the spring student government election. This is the first time in the slate’s 11-year history that spots for four candidates will be open to any student on campus, said Heena Doshi, party chair and […]
Category Archives: Student Government
USAC recap – Jan. 20
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 The council unanimously […]
USAC passes resolution for UC to divest from the Republic of Turkey
The undergraduate student government voted 12-0-0 Tuesday to pass a resolution that calls for the University of California to divest from investments made in the Republic of Turkey. The resolution, proposed by the Armenian Students’ Association, calls for the divestment of more than $65 million the UC has invested in the Republic of Turkey through […]
USAC recap – Jan. 13
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 USAC approved allocating […]
UCLA Division of Social Sciences holds panel on racial inequality
An image of a black student with a graduation cap with “stop killing us” written across it stuck in Jessica Barragan’s mind on Wednesday. Before seeing the image at a panel on race relations in the United States, the third-year sociology student said she had never thought about race relations and police brutality in such […]
USAC votes to change surplus distribution formula, invest in endowment
The undergraduate student government unanimously voted Tuesday night to invest $10,000 of its surplus funds into its endowment and to change the formula by which surplus funding is distributed across funds that support student group programming. The Undergraduate Students Association Council did not allocate any money to council initiatives and no councilmembers asked for funding […]
Turkish Cultural Club appeals against ASA resolution to divest from Turkey
This article has been updated at 8:36 p.m. on Jan. 14.
The Turkish Cultural Club appealed to the undergraduate student government Tuesday to vote against a resolution drafted by the Armenian Students’ Association calling for the University of California to divest from the Republic of Turkey.