UC Board of Regents confirms Avi Oved as student regent-designate

The UC Board of Regents confirmed UCLA junior Avi Oved as the 2015-2016 student regent at its meeting Wednesday.
Read More…
As an independent student newspaper and the paper of record for the city of Berkeley, the Daily Cal has been communicating important updates during this pandemic. Your support is essential to maintaining this coverage.
The UC Board of Regents confirmed UCLA junior Avi Oved as the 2015-2016 student regent at its meeting Wednesday.
Read More…
Given his donor’s potential violation of Federal Tax Law in funding his student government campaign and his complete lack of transparency on the issue it is clear that Avi Oved does not uphold the values one would expect from a student leader. Therefore to preserve these values of student government in the UC system, we respectively call upon Avi Oved to immediately withdraw himself from the student regent nomination process.
Read More…
Throughout the history of the University of California, the UC Board of Regents have consistently turned a blind eye to issues facing Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian, or AMEMSA, communities. From UC Santa Cruz lecturer Tammi Benjamin, who last year publicly claimed that Muslim Student Associations were allied
Read More…
In a closed session Friday, the UCSA’s systemwide affairs committee voted in favor of requesting that the UC Board of Regents delay Oved’s confirmation until September.
Read More…
An email leaked to The Daily Californian shows Adam Milstein requested that pro-Israel community members should send contributions to Hillel at UCLA earmarked for “UCLA Student Government Leaders.”
Read More…
In response to allegations that student regent-designate nominee Avi Oved received a potentially problematic donation last year from Adam Milstein, Oved and Milstein released statements Tuesday denying any allegations and lambasting what they called bullying of pro-Israel students.
Read More…
The University of California Student Association’s Board of Directors passed a motion to conduct an emergency meeting next week after financial and political conflict of interest concerns surrounding student-regent designate nominee Avi Oved were raised at its meeting Saturday.
Read More…