Several candidates who ran in this year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council elections said they think national politics influenced this year’s election. Nine independent candidates were elected to the council in Friday’s election. Read more...
Photo: Members of Bruins United slate march toward Meyerhoff Park on Friday, May 5, prior to the release of the 2017 Undergraduate Students Association Council election results. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin)
Voter turnout in the 2017 undergraduate student government election was the lowest it has been in recent years, falling more than 10 percentage points from 2016. Read more...
This post was updated May 5 at 7:48 p.m. Nine out of 10 independent candidates in this year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council election won positions on the council. Read more...
Photo: Independent candidate Chloe Pan won the external vice president position with 55.9 percent of the vote Friday afternoon. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)
The undergraduate student government election board has issued five sanctions since Thursday night. The board sanctioned independent candidates Sayron Stokes and Divya Sharma on Thursday night, and sanctioned independent candidate Jack Price and Bruins United candidate Neha Quraishi Friday afternoon. Read more...
The undergraduate student government judicial board ruled in favor of the election board after receiving a petition asking it to disqualify the Bruins United slate. The judicial board voted unanimously that the election board did not violate code when sanctioning the slate for multiple violations. Read more...
Photo: The USAC Judicial Board held hearings Thursday night to determine whether the election board violated election code in this year’s undergraduate student government elections. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council Judicial Board conducted hearings Thursday on a petition that aims to disqualify the entire Bruins United slate, the board’s first case of the year. Read more...
Photo: The USAC Judicial Board held a hearing Thursday evening for a petition it accepted the same day. The petitioners asked the board to disqualify all nine Bruins United candidates. (Kristie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
Graduate students may get more housing opportunities in a few years, after UCLA administrators decided to change their proposal for new housing projects. Michael Skiles, Graduate Students Association president, said officials plan to modify an existing construction proposal to include housing for 300 graduate students. Read more...
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