Come Tuesday evening, the undergraduate student government faces the challenge of voting on a resolution with the potential to greatly divide the student body and alienate campus communities regardless of the outcome.
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Submission: Context is crucial in USAC resolutions
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is predictable. Every year, the same issues arise in a slightly new form, with the same back-and-forth petty slate politics, the same anxious and politically charged underclassmen that want the taste of council experience and the same strong momentum that withers away as the year comes to a close and […]
Submission: USAC divestment resolution relevant to entire student body
In the coming weeks, the UCLA’s Undergraduate Students Association Council will be voting on a resolution calling on the UC Board of Regents to withdraw its investments from five companies directly complicit in and profiting from, violations of human rights and international law in the Palestinian territories, occupied by Israel since 1967. Since I am […]
Students for Justice in Palestine calls for UC, UCLA divestment
Students for Justice in Palestine has authored a resolution asking the University of California and UCLA to divest from some companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The resolution calls for divestment from five companies that some students say are complicit in the human rights abuses of Palestinians, said […]