This post was updated Dec. 16 at 7:36 a.m.
The Undergraduate Students Association Council named the 2024-25 International Student Representative Syed Tamim Ahmad as chair of the USA Elections Board at its Nov.

About 30 students honored Indigenous history at a teach-in about the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act on Nov. 12.
The event, which was hosted at the Student Activities Center, aimed to educate the campus community about the NAGPRA – a federal law passed in 1990, which outlines requirements for federally-funded agencies and museums to return Native American human remains and funerary objects to their respective peoples.

The Undergraduate Students Association Council passed a resolution alleging UCLA does not adequately support parenting students.
The resolution, which was passed Sept. 30, claims UCLA violated California Assembly Bill 79 and Assembly Bill 1326 by not employing a designated California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids liaison to proactively engage with student-parents.

This post was updated Nov. 16 at 9:59 p.m.
The Undergraduate Students Association Council expressed support for the student services and advising professionals unit of United Auto Workers Local 4811 in its contract negotiations with the UC.

Every other Monday, dozens of students line up around Kerckhoff Hall in anticipation of a chance to unwind.
Massage Mondays – an ongoing event hosted by ASUCLA and the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Student Wellness Commission – provides students the opportunity to receive a free six-minute massage from a licensed massage therapist.

This post was updated Dec. 10 at 4:41 p.m.
The Undergraduate Students Association Council made seven committee appointments and allocated over $100,000 to student groups at its Nov.

This post was updated Nov. 5 at 1:02 a.m.
A coalition of 25 student organizations filed an amicus brief Thursday in support of a lawsuit against President Donald Trump that alleged research funding suspensions to UCLA and subsequent settlement demands violated employees’ free speech. 
The student organizations – filing under the name Students for Higher Education – said in the brief that the federal government’s “ruinous cuts to federal research funding,” its $1.2 billion settlement demand and attacks on international students obstruct the constitutionally protected free speech of students and faculty members.