Tuesday, April 28


Rally responds to incidents of hate speech at UCLA

About a hundred people rallied outside Kerckhoff Hall earlier today, following acts of vandalism involving racial and sexist slurs that were reported to police earlier this week. Read more...

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Students gather in front of Kerckhoff Hall Thursday to rally in response to racial and sexist slurs posted in two locations on campus.


Lifelong learners: Retired couple audits UCLA classes

A couple sits in Perloff 1102, attentive and near the front of the lecture hall as a professor describes the relationship between jazz musicians and the Watts Riots of 1965. Read more...

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Peter and Barbara Rothholz, 83 and 79 years old, respectively, have been auditing classes at UCLA for many years. This quarter, they are taking an upper-division history course called “Jazz and the Political Imagination.”


Grad students plan action against changed policy

Graduate students discussed multiple ways to take action against recent changes to UCLA's leave of absence policy at a town hall meeting Wednesday afternoon. Read more...

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The GSA Social Sciences Council and the UC Student-Workers Union held a meeting Wednesday afternoon to discuss a recent policy change.



USAC Meeting Roundup ““ Nov. 27

Agenda

  • The council unanimously approved weekly contingency allocations.
  • Councilmembers decided to work on drafting a poll that will ask students how they would like to see USAC discretionary funds used.
  • USAC members discussed ways to educate students about the vandalism found on a Vietnamese Student Union sign outside the student organization’s office in Kerckhoff Hall Tuesday, as well as other incidents of campus climate.
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