The graduate student government will present charges against its president at a meeting Wednesday evening. If the charges come to a vote and two-thirds of all seated delegates vote to impeach, the UCLA Graduate Students Association President Milan Chatterjee will be removed from office. Read more...
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University police manages a budget of more than $12 million, about 60 percent of which is used to pay its staff. Each year, UCPD’s finance division determines how money is distributed to each department, and aims to solve issues such as deficits. Read more...
In eighth grade, Viktoria Lovy explored flea markets in her hometown of Budapest, Hungary, and marveled at the colorful, UCLA sweaters that had been smuggled into her then-communist country. Read more...
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Members of the UCLA lecturers union allege UCLA’s Academic Personnel Office is unfairly withholding funds intended to help lecturers attend academic events. Mia McIver, president of the UCLA chapter of the University Council-American Federation of Teachers, said the funds have not yet been distributed because the office has not convened the committee that distributes the funds. Read more...
Student groups can now apply to several funding applications through a centralized portal. Heather Hourdequin, undergraduate student government internal vice president, said her office worked to consolidate five funding applications into one site to streamline the student group funding process. Read more...
A nonprofit organization founded by a UCLA alumnus is working to clean up a massive oil spill in the Niger Delta using recently developed technology. A United Nations Environment Programme report published in 2011 revealed individuals living in the Niger Delta were drinking water contaminated with quantities of benzene, a carcinogen, that were up to 900 times what was considered safe. Read more...
Photo: Chinyere Nnadi, co-founder of Sustainability International, is working with the organization to run a small-scale cleanup of oil spills in the Niger Delta. (Courtesy of Chinyere Nnadi)
A group of graduate students started a petition that demands the University of California dismiss a UCLA history professor accused of sexually assaulting two students. Preston McBride, president of the History Graduate Students Association, said graduate students started the petition after UCLA officials allowed history professor Gabriel Piterberg to return to teach on campus. Read more...
Photo: Last March, several UCLA students marched to the UCLA history department in Bunche Hall asking for the resignation of professor Piterberg. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
