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USAC General Representative 1 Jong Hyeon Lee resigns at council meeting

This post was updated Jan. 13 at 11:24 a.m. An undergraduate student government representative resigned at a Tuesday council meeting. Jong Hyeon Lee, the Undergraduate Students Association Council General Representative 1, said at the Tuesday USAC meeting he will declare nonattendance at UCLA because of financial and personal reasons. Read more...

Photo: A student government general representative resigned at the Tuesday Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting, and said he will declare nonattendance because of personal reasons, which would make him ineligible for office. (Left to right: Courtesy of Jong Hyeon Lee, Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)


UCSA recap – Jan. 9

The University of California Student Association is composed of representatives from the UC campuses’ undergraduate and graduate student governments. The organization’s Board of Directors held its monthly meeting over Zoom on Jan. Read more...


USAC recap – Jan. 5

The Undergraduate Students Association Council proposed and discussed various changes to election procedures. The council also presented the Student Advocacy Board, a group of students promoting transformative and restorative justice in dealing with the administration through focusing on issues with the UCLA Police Department and academic dishonesty. Read more...


USAC recap – Dec. 8

The Undergraduate Students Association Council passed resolutions to increase stipends for the USA Elections Board staff and to allow representatives from the Congressional Advisory Board to give input on agenda items. Read more...


USAC recap – Dec. 1

This post was updated Dec. 11 at 12:05 a.m. Student leaders from the UC Coalition for Reproductive Justice discussed the necessity of increased accessibility to rape test kits on all University of California and California State University on-campus health centers and their policy plans. Read more...


Several Academic Affairs Commission members receive scholarship from own office

Several undergraduate student government staffers received money from a scholarship run by their own office, including staffers who helped decide who receives scholarship money. At least 11 Undergraduate Students Association Council Academic Affairs Commission staffers received money from a textbook scholarship their office administers, Books for Bruins, said Commissioner of Academic Affairs Breeze Velazquez in an emailed statement. Read more...

Photo: Staff at an undergraduate student government commission are set to receive scholarships from their own office.


USAC recap – Nov. 24

Armenian student leaders addressed the need for the acknowledgment of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan and academic leniency for affected students in a resolution that details these concerns. Read more...



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