ASUCR resolution tabled
Wednesday’s ASUCR meeting saw the tabling of a proposed prison divestment resolution due to factual errors. A revised version of the bill will be presented at the next meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 6 p.m.
Drafted by President Pro-Tempore Corey Willis and CHASS senator Dalshawn Boson, the proposed resolution identifies problems within the U.S. prison system such...
UC System signs Japan’s Stewardship Code
On October 21, the UC system became the first U.S. pension plan and endowment fund to sign the Japan Stewardship Code, a non-binding growth strategy that contains principles to enhance institutional investors’ medium-to-long-term investment by actively engaging shareholders in investment decisions.
After meetings in recent years amongst Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other government...
Protests erupt in UCLA over blackface allegations
Hundreds of protesters came out to UCLA on Thursday, Oct. 8 to protest the campus’ Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Alpha Phi sorority for throwing a “Kanye Western” themed party on Oct. 6. According to various students testimonies, the attendants at the party wore black face, baggy clothing, plump lips and padded bottoms...
UC to decide to adopt State Department’s definition of anti-semitism
On May 25, over 57 rabbis and 104 UC faculty members wrote a public letter to administrators to adopt the controversial U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-semitism, which includes statements such as “denying Israel the right to exist.”
The letter states that campus administrators “should be trained in using the State...