Action speak louder than words: Photo Collage

November 18, 1996: Members of the Student
Association of Graduate Employees/United Auto Workers hold picket
signs as they begin one of many strikes in the fight for collective
bargaining rights. It was not until March of 1999 that the
university recognized SAGE/UAW as a union for teaching assistants,
readers and tutors. February 28, 1997:
Gabriel Perez signs a petition prepared by the
USAC Academic Affairs commissioner endorsing a diversity
requirement as part of the general education curriculum. UCLA
remains the only school in the UC system without a diversity
requirement. May 15, 1998: USAC President
Kandea Mosley raises her fist in protest at
Chancellor Albert Carnesale’s inauguration ceremony. Mosley
represented students who demanded that Carnesale prove his
committment to diversity by issuing a statement of non-compliance
with Proposition 209, the measure that banned affirmative action in
college admissions and hiring. Shortly after it passed, the number
of minority students admitted to UCLA dropped. October 12,
1998: Candice Gingrich delivers a speech
during National Coming Out Week, stressing the importance of
pursuing the acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
rights in the UCLA community. May 19, 1999: Shirts
painted by victims of sexual and domestic violence hang over
Dickson Plaza during the annual Clothesline Project. Students
sought to raise awareness and promote activism to end sexual
violence such as rape, domestic abuse, sexual harassment and hate
crimes against the LGBT community. March 2, 2000:
Students march in a protest against Proposition 21 and 22, arguing
that they represented attacks on the rights of minorities, gays and
lesbians. Proposition 21 lowered the age at which a youth offender
can be tried as an adult and created stricter penalties for certain
crimes. Proposition 22 prevented the state of California from
recognizing marriage between same sex couples.