This post was updated Nov. 6 at 1:58 a.m.
The Undergraduate Students Association Council held its fifth meeting of October on Tuesday.
USAC is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA.

Japan’s richest man donated $31 million to the study of Japanese humanities at UCLA on Oct. 3.
Tadashi Yanai, the president of Japanese retail company Fast Retailing – the parent company of clothing company Uniqlo – committed the donation to the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities.

The ASUCLA Board of Directors held its second meeting of the 2024-2025 term Aug. 30.
The board, which is composed of a student majority, has financial oversight over ASUCLA entities, including the Undergraduate Students Association Council, the Graduate Student Association and the ASUCLA Communications Board – which oversees UCLA Student Media.

The Undergraduate Students Association Council passed 21 resolutions throughout the 2023-2024 school year, ranging from supporting different labor unions to supporting diverse ethnic groups.
Council resolutions exist to express the opinion of the council and pass when a majority of council members vote for them, according to the USAC bylaws.

The Undergraduate Students Association Council unanimously passed a resolution April 23 calling on Chancellor Gene Block to demand Nike pay missing wages to workers in the Hong Seng Knitting factory in Bangkok.

The Undergraduate Students Association Council unanimously passed a resolution March 5 condemning the genocide of the ethnic Armenians in Artsakh, a region also known as Nagorno-Karabakh.

This post was updated Feb. 21 at 10:50 p.m.
The UCLA Activist-in-Residence program selected five new residents for its 2024 cycle, which spans from January to May.

This post was updated Dec. 13 at 10:36 p.m.
The Undergraduate Students Association Council unanimously passed a resolution Nov. 7 calling for the university to cut all contracts with Starbucks.