Resnick, a general representative for the Undergraduate Students Association Council, confirmed the date of the first farmers market, which will take place April 20 from 3-7 p.m. Read more...
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Undergraduate Students Association Council General Representative Emily Resnick’s gym-traffic project, which will take photos of gym areas and link them to the UCLA Recreation website, will launch this quarter.
Health care reform is happening within the UCLA Health System, but it is not necessarily President Barack Obama's bill driving the reform, administrators say. In a presentation to the UC Board of Regents on March 17, John Stobo, the UC senior vice president for health sciences and services, emphasized that the UC must address spiraling health care costs regardless of the fate of the bill, which has been threatened with repeal by Republicans. "My feeling is that (the bill) is not going to be the major driver (of UC hospital reform)," Stobo said in an interview this week. Read more...
Accidents involving university-owned vehicles have cost UCLA more than $2 million over the past five years, a UCLA safety specialist said. Read more...
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Campus accidents involving university vehicles have cost UCLA more than $2 million over the last five years. Cellphone distraction is the leading cause of accidents.
The Judicial Board found discrepancies in a student government officer's testimony when he was called to bear witness in his own hearing on March 11.
In November, Rustom Z. Birdie entered a contractual relationship with startup web company Jobbook.com. Read more...
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Rustom Z. Birdie, the USAC financial supports commissioner, was called to a Judicial Board hearing regarding his promotion of Jobbook.com.
The university is considering alternative tutoring options following the decision to end free peer tutoring on the Hill. Read more...
UCLA students on their way to finals donated $1,500 to relief efforts in Japan. Read more...
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The Nikkei Student Union will be collecting relief funds for Japan throughout finals week and the first two weeks of spring quarter.
A UCLA student has received multiple death threats in response to her video "Asians in the Library," which was posted Friday. In the video, third-year political science student Alexandra Wallace makes a number of disparaging comments about Asian students. Read more...
