There are hundreds of registered student organizations on the UCLA campus.  As we began to research efforts toward increasing diversity on campus, the PluralNet team knew it would be crucial to interview both administration and students.  From the start, a survey of the wide range of student opinion was not our primary purpose.  The PluralNet team felt it was important to speak with groups that had been publicly involved in the campus debate regarding Proposition 209, affirmative action and student diversity.  The six groups the team spoke to are by no means a representative sample of student groups at UCLA, nor even of student groups focused on diversity issues.  Rather, the six groups address a small sampling of the issues being raised in light of the recent drop in numbers of historically underrepresented students being admitted to UCLA (after the implementation of Proposition 209).  Students are accomplishing many things. . .

African Student Union (ASU)

Latin American Student Alli. (LASA)

MEChA de UCLA ( Olintoc Nemachtianimeh Xicana/Xicano in Aztlan UCLA

Asian Pacific Coalition (APC)

American Indian Sci. & Engin. Society

Undergraduate Students Assoc. Council

last updated 6/99