This year’s undergraduate student government’s election had a 40.3 percent voter turnout, one of the highest in years, despite cuts in the election board’s budget. The board’s budget decreased from $37,000 in 2015 to $26,000 in 2016, to accommodate decreasing USAC funds. Read more...
Photo: This year’s USAC election had a 40.3 percent voter turnout, one of the highest in years, despite cuts in the election board’s budget. (Daniel Alcazar/Photo editor)
Twenty years ago, UCLA faculty members held secret, off-campus meetings to discuss their struggles as closeted LGBT individuals on campus. Their gatherings have since led to the establishment of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Campus Resource Center – one of the largest in the country, said Ronni Sanlo, director of the center from 1997 to 2010. Read more...
Photo: Students, campus leaders and founders of the LGBT Campus Resource Center gathered Friday at a luncheon with Chancellor Gene Block to celebrate the center’s 20th anniversary. (Laura Uzes/Daily Bruin)
Students voted to pass all four referenda on the undergraduate student government election ballot Friday. More than half of students who voted in the election supported The Green Initiative Fund referendum, the Social Justice Referendum of 2016, the #UCLAwellness Referendum and the Daily Bruin and Bruinwalk.com Referendum. Read more...
Photo: The Social Justice Referendum passed with 54.8 percent of the vote. (Owen Emerson/Assistant Photo Editor)
This post was updated May 6 at 8 p.m. Bruins United secured nine of 14 seats on the next undergraduate student government council, and students voted to pass all four referenda on the ballot. Read more...
Photo: Bruins United secured nine of 14 seats on the next undergraduate student government council. Danny Siegel, Bruins United presidential candidate, was elected as the next USAC president with 52.2 percent of the vote. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Editor’s note: The results mentioned in this post are not the official results of the undergraduate student government election. Responses were gathered anonymously through a survey available to all students on dailybruin.com. Read more...
UCLA is ranked No. 13 in the Times Higher Education World Reputation rankings for the second consecutive year, after dropping from 10th place in 2014 Every year, the Times Higher Education World Reputation, a ranking organization, publishes a list of 100 universities considered to be the most reputable by scholars. Read more...
Photo: The Times Higher Education World Reputation ranked UCLA as the 13th most reputable school for the second consecutive year. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Two weekends ago, a client walked into a health clinic for a basic health screening. Hours later, he was rushed to the hospital for abnormally high blood pressure. Read more...
Photo: APA Health CARE hosts clinics that aim to teach patients how to prevent diseases that tend to affect Asian-Americans more than others. (Courtesy of APA Health CARE)
