Guaranteed UCLA admission sounds impossible.
California’s latest budget proposal would establish exactly that.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan requires UCLA to participate in the University of California transfer admission guarantee program for the university to receive at least some of its usual state funding.

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Elected officials should never get away with making bigoted statements behind the scenes.

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When it comes to COVID-19, UCLA is all about safety.
Unless, of course, you’re a university health care worker.
UCLA Health nurses organized a demonstration outside of a Santa Monica COVID-19 testing site Nov.

Students shouldn’t have to skip meals to buy textbooks.
Nor should they have to risk malware from contraband websites that promise free textbooks, skip out on necessary course materials because of high costs or pass on a class altogether.

Lily Shaw came into office with ambitious goals to improve infrastructure accessibility and sustainability on campus, and she has managed to live up to them.
Although a few of her biggest projects were slated to launch in spring quarter, it is clear Shaw has proactively worked throughout the year to lay the foundational groundwork for those projects. 
For example, one of her biggest and loftiest platforms was implementing a reusable container system in dining halls on the Hill.

Matthew Richard’s ideas are relatively radical.
And while that’s not necessarily a bad thing, they don’t fit into the framework of general representative well.
The board does not endorse Richard because of his potential inability to compromise and his platforms, which are oversized for the position he is running for.

The board does not endorse Justin Suarez for general representative because of his lack of experience compared to his opposition and the relative vagueness of his plans to achieve his platform goals.

Passion is important, but without knowing enough about the Undergraduate Students Association Council to navigate its treacherous personal politics, it doesn’t get very far.
And despite an abundance of it, it fails to qualify Harman Singh for the position of general representative.