This board endorses Milan Chatterjee for Graduate Students Association president. His experience in GSA as the previous director of discretionary funding and the current vice president of internal affairs will aid Chatterjee in his platform goals to improve funding for students and make the GSA website more accessible and up-to-date. Chatterjee also said he will […]
Category Archives: Editorials
Editorial: Luskin Center for Innovation must dissociate self from Michael Peevey
To maintain its reputation as an elite public research institution, UCLA must distance itself from former Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey, who is under federal and state investigation for bribery and obstruction of justice, among other alleged crimes. As a public institution, UCLA has an added responsibility to be transparent and accountable for its […]
Editorial: Open forum with ‘committee of two’ way to rebuild student trust
Since forming a committee of two in January to create new funding strategies for the University of California, Gov. Jerry Brown and UC President Janet Napolitano have had precious little to show for their efforts. Students and California taxpayers alike have been kept in the dark about what the committee has been up to since […]
Editorial: USAC Election Board should punish early, illicit online campaigning
Nearly every UCLA student government election sees election code violations punished inadequately or not punished at all. Just as they did last year, candidates from the Undergraduate Students Association Council slates LET’S ACT! and Bruins United posted photos on personal social media accounts weeks before the approved start date for online campaigning. The candidates have […]
Editorial: UCLA must speed up water conservation efforts
California’s first-ever water mandate announced last week raised alarms that water conservation isn’t happening fast enough in the state – including at campuses like UCLA. UCLA has already started taking important steps toward reducing its water usage in the long term. But California’s water shortage is in an emergency state, and the university needs to […]
Editorial: USAC right to offer incentives to increase voter turnout
UCLA students don’t vote in their undergraduate elections. Last year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council spring election summoned an abysmal 30 percent of students to vote, while the Fall special election drew less than 20 percent, invalidating important ballot referendums. For the past several years, voter turnout has hovered around 35 percent. In an attempt to […]
Editorial: USAC councilmembers’ resignations set troubling precedent
Carlos Quintanilla’s resignation Thursday marked the third time a student-elected officer has left their student government position this school year. Quintanilla cited personal reasons for his departure and declined to comment any further. The Undergraduate Students Association Council also did not announce the resignation to the student body. Only about a month into his term, […]