The graduate student government voted Wednesday to include a voluntary campaign spending limit of $250 per candidate in its elections code. Members of the Graduate Students Association considered multiple elections code changes at their forum Wednesday night, including a proposal to decrease the number of graduate student signatures needed to run for office from 50 to 25 and a motion to create voluntary spending caps for candidates. Read more...
Campus, News, Student Government
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May 29, 12:52 am
GSA forum discusses changes to elections code
News
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May 29, 12:40 am
LA County recruiting poll workers, including college students
Los Angeles County officials are actively recruiting poll workers, particularly those who are bilingual, for the upcoming primary election on June 3. Los Angeles County requires about 25,000 poll workers to run every election, said Regina Ip, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Registrar, in an email statement. Read more...
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May 29, 12:34 am
Petition calls for negotiations with UAW Local 2865
More than 400 faculty members at the University of California have signed on to a petition calling for UC officials to negotiate fairly and sincerely with teaching assistants and other student academic workers who plan to strike during finals week. Read more...
Campus, News
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May 29, 12:31 am
UCLA student founds summer storage company Bruin Bins
As he unpacked his bags during a spring break trip, Keith Yoder started to wonder how students who live far away from UCLA store all of their belongings over the summer. Read more...
Photo: Andrew Howard (left), a third-year political science student, and Keith Yoder, a first-year business economics student, started Bruin Bins. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
News, Westwood
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May 29, 12:24 am
Parking structure on Broxton may eliminate monthly passes
Westwood’s only public parking structure, on Broxton Avenue, may soon eliminate monthly parking passes depending on the results of a possible study by the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. Read more...
Photo: The Broxton parking garage, located in a central spot in Westwood, may eliminate its monthly parking passes depending on the results of a study. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)
Campus, News, Student Government
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May 28, 12:42 am
USAC Recap – May 27
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Read more...
News, Science & Health
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May 28, 12:25 am
EmpowHer event encourages women to pursue science careers
Children passed around a preserved brain in a ziplocked bag after a lesson on the organ's functional geography Tuesday during "EmpowHer STEM Day," an educational event aimed at teaching girls about careers in science and math. "I've been waiting my whole life for this!" said Grecia, a thirteen year old, as she held the brain, garnering laughs from her peers and adults. She said seeing the brain helped her understand how its functions are generally divided by area, and touching it kept her attention. Read more...
Photo: About 60 girls from Los Angeles middle schools visited UCLA Tuesday to learn about different fields in the sciences. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin)