This post was updated on May 3 at 8:16 p.m. About 200 LET’S ACT! supporters gathered in a huddle for more than two hours in Wilson Plaza Friday night after hearing of their slate’s severe losses in last week’s Undergraduate Students Association Council election. Several slate leaders took turns giving speeches, saying how they felt […]
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Heather Rosen to lead Bruins United majority council
This post was updated on May 1 at 9:41 p.m. Bruins United candidates dominated this year’s undergraduate student government election, taking seven of nine contested positions, officials announced Friday night. The slate hasn’t held a majority of seats on the council since 2012. For the first time since 2007, Bruins United candidates took all executive […]
USAC election results to be announced Friday despite investigation
Undergraduate student government election results will be announced at 8 p.m. Friday on the steps outside Kerckhoff Hall, despite the open investigation into LET’S ACT! campaign finances. The Undergraduate Students Association Council voted on Tuesday for the Election Board to investigate leaked documents that allege the LET’S ACT! slate sold drugs and alcohol at fundraising […]
Freddie Gray stickers posted outside Afrikan Student Union office
Editor’s note: One of the images included in this article contains explicit language. We have decided to run this image because we felt it appropriate to thoroughly cover this campus incident. Afrikan Student Union members are calling for UCLA to respond to racism on campus after finding stickers outside the group’s office and other spots […]
Bomb threat message found in Student Activities Center bathroom
This post was updated on April 30 at 7:35 p.m. A bomb threat was found in a Student Activities Center bathroom Thursday, prompting officials to ask students to leave the building for the rest of the day. The threat, a message written in graffiti that suggested a bomb would go off at a certain time […]
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 […]
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 […]