An image of a black student with a graduation cap with “stop killing us” written across it stuck in Jessica Barragan’s mind on Wednesday. Before seeing the image at a panel on race relations in the United States, the third-year sociology student said she had never thought about race relations and police brutality in such finite terms. Read more...
Photo: A panel of UCLA professors discussed race and social inequality issues with students Wednesday. (Heidy Cadena/Daily Bruin)
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 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)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every week on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Read more...
In the 95-year existence of UCLA’s undergraduate student government, just six presidents have stepped down or been ousted from their seats. Undergraduate Students Association Council presidents have resigned for personal reasons, been caught in campaign violation controversies or been drafted into the military, according to Steven Halpern in “A View from Kerckhoff: A History of Student Life at UCLA,” a document about the Associated Students UCLA and the undergraduate student government. Read more...
More than 100 individuals at a student-led town hall Thursday drafted a list of demands calling for the Los Angeles Police Department to patrol all communities in equal numbers and for university police to not carry any weapons. Read more...
Photo: More than 100 individuals attended a town hall held by the Cultural Affairs Commission. (Heidy Cadena/Daily Bruin)
