In the wake of the resignation of Undergraduate Students Association Council President Devin Murphy, the council has an obligation to postpone its vote on an upcoming controversial divestment resolution. Murphy’s resignation left a vacuum of power on the council, pulling former Internal Vice President Avinoam Baral out of his voting seat and leaving a gaping […]
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Pro-Israel coalition seeks to shift USAC focus back to campus issues
More than 100 students met at Hillel at UCLA Thursday to discuss a strategy to persuade the undergraduate student government to shift its attention away from political and international issues. Student leaders from Bruins for Israel, Hillel at UCLA and J Street U at UCLA led the meeting of pro-Israel students and unveiled a new […]
Editorial: New Title IX officer must take charge to improve policy, procedures
UCLA is at the precipice of an opportunity to either take a step toward better sexual assault policies and procedures or fall back into its past habits of noncompliance and complacency with the status quo. As the university searches for a replacement Title IX officer, the high-level administrators responsible for hiring this new power player […]
Travis Fife: Lack of transparency in proposed tuition plan leaves students in dark
University of California President Janet Napolitano and Gov. Jerry Brown are engaged in a chess match for funding and have taken to using students as pawns. Recent highlights of the match include Brown vetoing $50 million in additional funds for the UC system at the end of September. The UC Regents spent September lobbying for […]
Editorial: Students should criticize state, not UC regarding proposed tuition hike
The University of California may raise tuition once again after three years of managing to keep it flat while facing lower state funding. But students shouldn’t get mad at the UC: We need the money, and it’s the state that’s to blame. Under a proposal that UC President Janet Napolitano unveiled Wednesday, if the state […]
Budget cuts push UCLA newsmagazines to move online
Many UCLA newsmagazines have stopped printing and are moving entirely online in response to limited funding and print readership.
The student-run news outlets include La Gente, Al-Talib, OutWrite, Ha’Am, and FEM, which aim to serve the Latino, Muslim, queer, Jewish and women’s rights activist communities at UCLA, respectively.
Editorial: Residential Life should be more transparent with changes to disciplinary policy
UCLA Residential Life quietly changed a disciplinary policy posted on its website last week listed under “Sanctions” and “Exclusion from On Campus Housing.”