The undergraduate student government unanimously voted Tuesday night to invest $10,000 of its surplus funds into its endowment and to change the formula by which surplus funding is distributed across funds that support student group programming. Read more...
Photo: USAC members voted on how to spend this year’s surplus in a meeting Tuesday night. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
This article has been updated at 8:36 p.m. on Jan. 14. The Turkish Cultural Club appealed to the undergraduate student government Tuesday to vote against a resolution drafted by the Armenian Students’ Association calling for the University of California to divest from the Republic of Turkey. Read more...
Photo: The Turkish Cultural Club appealed to the undergraduate student government Tuesday to vote against a resolution drafted by the Armenian Students’ Association calling for the University of California to divest from the Republic of Turkey. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)
The vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA resigned Chancellor Gene Block announced on Tuesday. Read more...
Shannon Jessen was sleeping in her room in Rieber Terrace when her desk began to shake and the noise of jackhammers reverberated off the walls. Standing barefoot on the ground, she was able to feel constant movement, Jessen, a first-year economics student, said. Read more...
UCLA saw a record number of applications for fall 2015 admission, with more than 112,000 students applying from many different backgrounds, states and countries, but the overall demographics of California applicants changed very little. Read more...
The JazzReggae Festival will be shortened to one day this year from its usual two because of a budget deficit caused by unexpected costs of last year’s festival. Read more...
Photo: Thousands of students attended the JazzReggae Festival last year. The annual event used to be partially funded by undergraduate student government surplus funds. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A feature added to MyUCLA last week allows students to give UCLA their preferred name, which will then appear on some academic student records. The feature, which was added under “Settings” on MyUCLA, lets students request that a preferred name, a name chosen by the student that differs from his or her legal name, be added to records. Read more...
Photo: Students can now choose a preferred name on MyUCLA. (UCLA)
