Wednesday, July 22

USAC Facilities Commission reveals sustainability, funding initiatives in report

The Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Facilities Commission revealed multiple upcoming sustainability projects to provide transparency to the student body in its fall 2022 transparency report. The fall quarterly transparency report outlined new initiatives undertaken by the commission, which is responsible for ensuring the UCLA campus is accessible and sustainable, according to its website. Read more...

Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Facilities Commission, located in Kerckhoff Hall (pictured), released its winter quarter transparency report. The report highlighted the commission’s current projects, hoping to increase awareness of their work. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Undergraduate Students Association Council supports construction of heavy rail

The Undergraduate Students Association Council passed a resolution Jan. 17 calling on UCLA to endorse a heavy rail alternative for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project and criticizing Vice Chancellor Michael Beck for meetings that the Los Angeles Metro says breached their pre-development agreement with BYD. Read more...

Photo: The Metro is pictured. The Undergraduate Students Association Council called on UCLA to endorse a heavy rail alternative for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project. (Esther Ma/Daily Bruin staff)


Bruins mourn lives lost in earthquake impacting Turkey and Syria

This post was updated Feb. 13 at 10:28 p.m. Editor’s note: this article was updated to retroactively remove the names of two students out of concern for their safety, as well as to clarify a source’s statement regarding the current political and economic climate in Syria. Read more...

Photo: A bouquet of flowers is placed on the ground. The Middle Eastern Student Association at UCLA organized a vigil to mourn the lives lost in a recent earthquake affecting Turkey and Syria. (Megan Cai/Assistant Photo editor)


Three Bruin alumni bring Asian-inspired snacks to Ackerman

Throughout her early college years, Kelsey Kawana never really saw the snacks she grew up with lining the campus vending machines. That feeling led her and two other former students at the UCLA Anderson School of Management – Eric Luo and Anne Marie Bessacini – to form dachi, an Asian-inspired treat and beverage company, in 2022. Read more...

Photo: The Dachi vending machines in Ackerman Union. The machines recently had a grand opening and now offer a variety of snacks from different Asian nationalities. (Joseph Jimenez/Assistant Photo editor)


Newly-elected Thyra Cobbs sworn in as USAC transfer student representative

This post was updated Feb. 13 at 5:45 p.m. The Undergraduate Students Association Council appointed Thyra Cobbs as the new transfer student representative during the Jan. Read more...

Photo: Thyra Cobbs (pictured) was recently appointed the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s transfer student representative. She is a fourth-year African American studies transfer student. (Courtesy of Thyra Cobbs)


UCLA task force finds inadequate discrimination, harassment report systems

The Academic Senate and UCLA administration found a range of discrepancies in university offices’ handling of student, faculty and administrative incident reports of discrimination and harassment following a lengthy investigation. Read more...

Photo: A report authored by the Joint Task Force on Investigatory and Judiciary Processes found issues with procedures for filing complaints at offices around campus, including the Title IX Office (pictured). (Daily Bruin file photo)


USAC funding delays increase stress, workload for student organization members

Funding delays from the Undergraduate Students Association Council have impeded event planning and increased stress for student organization leaders. Student organizations can apply to receive funding from among 15 different USAC funds, according to the USAC website. Read more...

Photo: A stack of money sits under a phone with a timer on a table. Funding issues and challenges in processing accounting measures have increased wait times for student organizations to receive funds from the Undergraduate Students Association Council, impeding student organizations and their activities. (Jeremy Chen/Assistant Photo editor)



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