Avinoam Baral became the new undergraduate student government president Friday night, after Devin Murphy resigned from office. Murphy said in a statement Friday morning he resigned from the Undergraduate Students Association Council presidency because of the high level of stress and the toll campus climate has taken on his mental, emotional and physical health. In […]
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Suspect in laptop theft pleads not guilty to burglary, theft charges
A former UCLA student accused of stealing more than 50 laptops from the Charles E. Young Research Library and the UCLA store pled not guilty Thursday to four theft and burglary charges. Prosecutors charged Seyed Ali Pakizehkar Hesari, 29, with two felony counts of grand theft and second-degree commercial burglary, one felony vandalism count and […]
DACA Project analyzes economic benefits of immigration policy
His mother and brother were deported to Mexico at different times in past years, and while his mother was able to come back, Francisco Lopez-Flores said he hasn’t seen his brother in six years. Lopez-Flores, a fourth-year Chicana/o studies student, said he thinks he has been fortunate because he was able to stay in the […]
GSA fills seat for vice president of internal affairs
The graduate student government elected UCLA law student Milan Chatterjee to fill a vacant cabinet seat Wednesday. Chatterjee, formerly the director of Graduate Students Association’s discretionary funding, ran against Heidi Alexander and Matthew FitzGerald for the GSA vice president of internal affairs position. The position opened up after former graduate student officer Hope McCoy resigned […]
SJP members address divestment resolution at town hall meeting
About 100 students met in a Haines Hall classroom Monday to fine-tune the language of a divestment resolution the undergraduate student government will vote on next week. Students for Justice in Palestine members are drafting the resolution, which may call for the University of California to divest from several companies that some students say profit […]
Students volunteer to combat homelessness on Day of Service
Homelessness has long been an important issue to Anais Munoz, who remembers learning that even her classmates in elementary school had to deal with homelessness. Some of them didn’t have access to indoor plumbing and had to do their homework under streetlights. Over the past few years, the fifth-year Chicana/o studies student said she has […]
USAC to discuss proposed tuition hike, divestment meeting logistics
The undergraduate student government will hold a special meeting Wednesday to address proposed tuition increases and to confirm the logistics of the Nov. 18 divestment resolution meeting. Internal Vice President Avinoam Baral is scheduled to release the meeting agenda by Sunday night. The meeting will take place Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417, after […]