As reported in Amanda Schallert’s article “USAC stipends to increase by about 90 percent in September,” members of the Undergraduate Students Association Council, in an effort to give themselves the time and ability to do their jobs effectively, recently voted to increase their quarterly stipends. Read more...

Every year, some of your student fees go to UCLA’s contribution of more than $74,000 to the University of California Student Association board. However, the UCSA board has recently shown no interest in being accountable to its constituents: you, the UC students. Read more...

It is urgent that we – we who care about the future of an equitable and democratic University of California system dedicated to critical education – understand and criticize administrative abuse and unaccountable structures of power. Read more...

Perhaps the University of California Board of Regents, Mark Yudof and others responsible for declaring Janet Napolitano UC President are simply unaware of the importance of the president’s position to the California academic community, taxpayers and worldwide university relations. Read more...

In response to Natalie Delgadillo’s Opinion article, “USAC must stop delaying action on oversight of contingency funding,” the assertion that “(t)he council often simply rubber-stamps the finance committee’s allocations” is misleading. Read more...

I’m no Moshe Cavalin, the precocious math student who started strolling the halls of UCLA at 11 years old. In a way, he is probably more accepted than what I am. He’s not stumped when people ask, “What year are you?” Read more...