Members of the local Muslim community bowed, knelt and swayed their bodies toward the northeast corner of the room – in line with Mecca – praying to God for “ghaith,” the Arabic word for “perfect rain.” As an unseasonably warm light flooded into the John Wooden Center’s Pyramid Room Friday, about 60 members of the […]
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Calif. schools ally to boost graduate, faculty diversity
UCLA and three other California universities have teamed up to bolster the ethnic diversity of graduate student and faculty populations within science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. University officials announced Thursday that the new consortium, called the California Alliance for Graduate Education and Professoriate, will be made up of UCLA, UC Berkeley, Stanford University and […]
USAC approves Election Board, official timeline not yet finalized
The undergraduate student government unanimously appointed five students at its Tuesday meeting to help run its spring elections. After 10 minutes of questions and deliberation, the Undergraduate Students Association Council voted to approve the new USAC Election Board and the timeline for its elections. Although none of the dates for elections have been finalized, Election […]
Eitan Arom: UC’s litigious approach doesn’t give others fair shake
David French has a joke: “Everybody gets their decade in court.” Court is messy. It’s ugly. And frankly, it’s not a very good way to resolve disputes. A trial that French is currently prosecuting illustrates that point. French, a senior counselor for the conservative legal organization the American Council for Law and Justice, is representing a […]
Editorial: Afro-American Studies must be given departmental status, support
A proposal to upgrade the Afro-American Studies Interdepartmental Program into the Department of African American Studies is in its final stages of review. It is essential that those reviewing the proposal not only pass it, but pass it as soon as possible and with the promise of sufficient support so that the new department can […]
Editorial: USAC should live stream, archive meetings
UCLA’s undergraduate student government recently announced plans to live stream its meetings, a change it hopes to implement before the end of the quarter. But at last night’s meeting, the Undergraduate Students Association Council voted to table indefinitely a proposal to purchase a camera for a live stream. Several councilmembers objected, as they have in […]
Eitan Arom: USAC makes progress with bylaws change
There’s one word in the phrase “student government” that is often overlooked and consistently underrated. I’ll give you a hint: It’s not government. For anyone seeking to understand or be involved in student government at UCLA, it’s crucial to recognize that it is an educational experience – as much classroom as Congress. And as with any learning […]