In approving the creation of a new student government position Friday, voters handed the incoming Undergraduate Students Association Council a sizable summer project to cut its teeth on. The Transfer Student Representative Constitutional Amendment earned the support of 74.4 percent of voters, easily surpassing the needed two-thirds vote. The referendum will create a voting position […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Aram Ghoogasian: Council’s unity, success now in hands of new executives
Next year’s council has a useful example of how to improve the atmosphere of student government – the current council’s term has been characterized by repeated conflicts along slate lines, a problem that the next council has a responsibility to solve.
Natalie Delgadillo: FIRED UP! slate had passion, but lacked USAC knowledge
The UCLA student body wasn’t “fired up” to vote for the candidates on this year’s ambitiously named new slate. FIRED UP!, a slate that formed in this year’s election cycle, did not win even one of the six seats it contested. In fact, the slate’s candidates were eliminated in the first round of every three-way […]
Editorial Cartoon: A couple of early birds
Ryan Nelson: Legislative crowdsourcing a promising medium for lobbying groups
Hell hath no fury like an anonymous Internet commenter. It seems that every article and video on the Internet, no matter how benign or innocent, eventually ends up in some bizarre mix of strange arguments and offensive language. You don’t have to go any farther than UCLA to see the vitriol; even this week we’ve […]
Editorial: Election Code misinterpretation allows for censorship
The Undergraduate Students Association Council Election Board has already shown itself prone to misinterpreting its own code. But when a misinterpretation of that code is used to justify media censorship, it is dangerous and inexcusable. On Monday, the USAC Election Board Chair Anthony Padilla warned presidential candidates that they could face sanctions if they participated […]
Eitan Arom: In search of higher ed funding, oil tax bill a dead end
The oil tax making its way through various committees in the California State Senate won’t raise gas prices at the pump. It won’t destroy the California oil industry, the nation’s fourth largest. But it also won’t pass. To begin with, Democrats no longer hold the two-thirds majority in the state Senate needed to pass tax bills. Besides, […]