Members of the Daily Bruin and the undergraduate student government election board debated at a Monday hearing about whether the board has authority over non-paid media elections coverage. Read more...
Photo: Election Board External Relations Chair Gabrielle Scheder-Bieschin questions a witness at a Judicial Board hearing Monday. (Neil Bedi/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Members of the Associated Students UCLA Finance Committee discussed the future of Student Media and strategies to improve its finances at their monthly meeting Friday. Members of the ASUCLA Services and Enterprises committee and the Communications Board brainstormed about how the groups can work together to improve their finances. Read more...
This article was updated on May 18 at 8:35 p.m. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block and University of California President Janet Napolitano released statements on Friday criticizing students’ efforts to discourage undergraduate student government leaders from taking free or sponsored trips with certain lobbying groups. Read more...
At Thursday’s University of California Board of Regents meeting, several pro-Israel organizations voiced concerns about the request by a handful of UCLA student groups that undergraduate student government officers should be barred from accepting expenses-paid trips to Israel with certain lobbying and interest groups. Read more...
In an hours-long hearing Thursday, Students for Justice in Palestine representatives and several opposing students debated whether two former undergraduate student government councilmembers had engaged in conflicts of interest this school year. Read more...
Photo: USAC General Representative Sunny Singh listens to students debate at a hearing about whether he and another councilmember engaged in conflicts of interest. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin)
More than a dozen students are helping faculty members develop a proposal for a new academic diversity requirement by the end of this month.The committee formed last month after the chair of the College of Letters and Science Faculty Executive Committee, Christina Palmer, asked several UCLA professors to work on a new diversity requirement proposal and present it to the College Faculty Executive Committee before the end of the quarter.Along with the faculty committee, a student advisory group was also created to work with faculty throughout the process. Read more...
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Read more...
Photo: Current President John Joanino passed the gavel to President-elect Devin Murphy at Tuesday night’s meeting. (Katie Meyers/Daily Bruin senior staff)
