The resignation of Janet Cummings, Graduate Student Association vice president of academic affairs, was announced officially at the forum meeting last Wednesday night.

This year the UCLA Graduate Students Association is lobbying to fight graduate student fee increases, sponsoring programs for graduate students, and working on the Graduate Student Resource Center.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation granted $6 million to support graduate students in the UCLA humanities department, UCLA announced Friday.

Undergraduate Students Association Council members have been working on fulfilling their campaign promises since May and now are up for reexamination.

The Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting ran silent and short Tuesday night, after a special active council members-only executive meeting was called to order.

When students miss finals because of an emergency hospital visit, a faulty alarm clock or a poorly scheduled flight, it is their professors they must appeal to in order to take an alternate exam.

The Undergraduate Students Association Council began voting to instate new guidelines for student group office space allocation on Tuesday night in an effort to make the process fairer and more transparent.

The three music-related departments ““ ethnomusicology, music and musicology ““ will unite to form the Herb Alpert School of Music, aided by a $30 million gift received Friday from the Herb Alpert Foundation.

Community and junior college students are receiving support in applying to UCLA from the Transfer Alliance Program, which held a conference for them on Tuesday.

The Undergraduate Students Association Council sped through the night’s meeting, voting unanimously to change the bylaws and raise the Academic Success Referendum Fund application cap to $1,000.