A quarterly fee increase referendum to support the Graduate Writing Center failed to pass in this year’s graduate student government election, after voter turnout fell short of 10 percent by just seven votes, according to election officials.

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The Undergraduate Student Association Council Election Board has extended the deadline to apply for candidacy for the upcoming elections to Tuesday, after there was confusion over two dates listed as deadlines in the candidate application packets.

Twelve years after traveling by plane, van and car from his home in Chile to the United States, Mario Pizarro stood nervously at the front of the concrete stage in Bruin Plaza Wednesday and looked out into a crowd of about 50 people.

The undergraduate student government voted Tuesday to amend its election code to limit the elections endorsement process to official group signatories, while rejecting a proposal that would have removed Election Board oversight from the process.

The undergraduate student government election reform proposals will go to council for a vote tonight, after the Election Board’s proposal received a recommendation from the subcommittee responsible for reviewing election code changes, while the council president’s proposal did not.

The push for undergraduate student government election reform – spurred by the abuse of loopholes in last year’s election that resulted in the misrepresentation of several student group endorsements – is coming to a crossroads this week.

The undergraduate student government president plans to propose getting rid of the official elections endorsement process, a move that goes against the Election Board’s own proposal for election code reform.

A meeting of an undergraduate student government committee responsible for reviewing and recommending bylaw and code changes scheduled for Monday, was canceled, which election officials say could impact expected election code reform.

Applications to the UCLA campus and the University of California system reached record highs this year, according to reports released Friday by the UC Office of the President.

The undergraduate student government voted Tuesday to create an endowment with $100,000 of the leftover money from last year’s council by a vote of 9-1-2.