Last week, the University of California Board of Regents approved a tuition hike plan that would ensure stable and predictable tuition increases of up to 5 percent over the next five years. Read more...
Photo: Gov. Jerry Brown speaks at the UC Regents meeting at the UCSF campus. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
Tuesday’s student council meeting was about as divisive and damaging as we all knew it would be. But some of the damage didn’t come from the expected places. Read more...
Photo: USAC councilmembers questioned the legitimacy of former USAC Internal Vice President Avinoam Baral’s rise to the presidency during Tuesday’s council meeting, where they passed the divestment resolution. (Joseph Chan/Daily Bruin)
Bright orange stickers and people with clipboards serve as a warning sign for UCLA students to steer clear – unless they want to be pressured into pledging California Public Interest Research Group. Read more...
Photo: CALPIRG Students, a branch of California Public Interest Research Group, holds pledge drives at UCLA and other UC campuses every year to gather funds for their initiatives regarding public interest issues. (Daily Bruin file photo)
There’s a tendency to measure student protests by their sheer size and volume. The more noise the students make, the more successful a demonstration appears. But our college campuses may now be taking the more peaceful route. Read more...
A two-unit companion course to the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, created by members of the Grand Challenges team working toward reaching 100 percent sustainability in Los Angeles by 2050, is paving the way for a new form of education that UCLA should consider implementing. Read more...
Photo: Victoria Chang/Daily Bruin senior staff
Last week, UCLA’s Undergraduate Students Association Council President Devin Murphy resigned. Much of the discussion surrounding his resignation has been centered on Tuesday’s divestment resolution calling for the University of California to divest from American companies that some say contribute to human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza. Read more...
Hundreds of students stood in two rows to voice their opinions on divestment until close to dawn at a student government meeting last February. Now our student government is gearing up for round two. Read more...
Photo: Michael Reyes, then a fourth-year English student, was one of many students who spoke in last year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting to express his support for the divestment resolution. Hundreds of students spent hours advocating for and against the resolution. (Daily Bruin file photo)
