USAC recap – Aug. 3

The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings usually take place every Monday at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 during summer. Watch a live-stream of the meeting on Aug. 3 on the USAC Live! YouTube channel.

Agenda

• The council unanimously appointed Roxanne Vergara, a rising fourth-year geography student, onto the Campus Programs Committee.

• The council unanimously appointed Yael Pineda, a rising third-year psychology student, onto the Communities Activities Committee.

• The council unanimously appointed Emily Kolheim, a rising second-year political science student, as chair of the Community Service Mini Fund.

• The council unanimously appointed Rebecca Stark, a rising third-year neuroscience student, onto the Community Service Mini Fund.

• The council unanimously appointed Moneel Chand, a rising fifth-year mechanical engineering student, onto the Student Fee Advisory Committee.
• The council voted unanimously to approve an allocation of $938 from the Contingency Programming Fund.

Officer reports

• President Heather Rosen said she attended a focus meeting organized by Janina Montero, vice chancellor of UCLA Student Affairs, two weeks ago to plan a cultural tolerance event for students during True Bruin Welcome week. Rosen said she will attend a webinar with staff from the University of California Office of the President to discuss and review the system UCOP has created in an attempt to prevent sexual assault and violence. Rosen was elected as co-chair of the UC Council of Presidents Saturday and discussed with other undergraduate presidents similar issues their campuses are dealing with, such as what many councilmembers say is a lack of food security and expensive graduate housing costs. Rosen said that it is unclear whether or not officer stipends would be influenced by the recent minimum wage changes implemented by UC President Janet Napolitano.

• Internal Vice President Heather Hourdequin said she will be attending an Interfaith Youth Core conference in Chicago next week with Student Wellness Commissioner Marvin Chen. Hourdequin said she had started a discussion with Mike Cohn, director of UCLA Student Organizations, Leadership and Engagement, to plan a future student organization resource fair. Hourdequin said she will be meeting with Nancy Greenstein, director of Police Community Services at the UCLA Police Department, to discuss plans in organizing a campus safety week in the fourth week of fall quarter. Hourdequin said that Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Veronica de la Cruz-Robles has hired a staff which will forward lighting issues around Westwood to the city’s Bureau of Street Lighting. Hourdequin said she has been working with Community Service Commissioner Zack Dameron on creating a website which will allow student group leaders to access an entire list of funding applications.

• General Representative 2 Aaliya Khan said she is working to extend mental health resources to cultural organization by organizing a plan with staff from All of Us to get each cultural organization to have a liaison with All of Us. Khan added that she had met with Associated Students UCLA staff in an attempt to move forward in establishing a nondenominational prayer space.
• Jacob Finn, a rising fourth-year psychology student acting as a proxy for General Representative 1 Danny Siegel, said that Siegel’s office has been working on the on-campus tailgate project and said that administrators have put a cap of around 8,000 to 9,000 students who can watch future UCLA football games in Pauley Pavilion.

Compiled by Nicholas Yu, Bruin senior staff.