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Student petition calls for forum with Brown, Napolitano on UC funding

Nearly 1,000 students have signed a petition calling for Gov. Jerry Brown and University of California President Janet Napolitano to talk about University costs and funding in a public forum. The petition, created by the UC Student Association, calls on Brown and Napolitano to participate in a forum at UC Davis hosted by the Associated […]

Q&A: First diversity vice chancellor discusses goals for office

University officials announced Jerry Kang, a UCLA law professor, as the new vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion Tuesday. His office will oversee two discrimination prevention officers, the Title IX officer and about 20 diversity specialists on campus. UCLA created the vice chancellor position after a 2013 report, headed by former California Supreme Court […]

UC student health center doctors to hold second strike

Doctors at the University of California student health centers will go on their second strike in three months starting Thursday, claiming the UC has not provided the financial information that the union needs. Doctors at the UCLA student health center – as well as at UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine and UC San Diego – […]

Students express concern over House proposal to freeze Pell Grants

A House federal budget proposal, released last month, would freeze the maximum Pell Grant award for the next 10 years. The Fiscal Year 2016 House budget resolution claims the Pell Grant program faces a deficit in the near future that cannot be solved with temporary fixes such as annual spending increases. It calls the increases […]

FIRED UP! candidates to focus on advocating for diversity requirement

Members of the FIRED UP! slate are focusing on advocating for a diversity course requirement proposal after they were disqualified from running in the upcoming undergraduate student election. The Undergraduate Students Association Council Election Board ruled the slate’s candidates ineligible because they turned in the hard copies of their candidate packets seven minutes late after […]

Phi Delta Theta to lease Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house

The former Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house will soon bear new Greek letters, as the UCLA chapter of Phi Delta Theta plans to lease the Gayley Avenue house in September. The UCLA chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha, which was established in 1991, stopped operating as an official fraternity in January because of financial problems. Members […]