If you’ve ever felt your housing application has been a hassle, then spare a moment for the fourth-year students trying to get into university housing. Fourth-year students who want to live in university-owned housing have to enter a lottery to get into the few available spots in both residence halls and university-owned apartments. The majority […]
Author Archives: Abhishek Shetty
Abhishek Shetty: Proposed reform of Prop 13 will not guarantee funds for the UC
If you pick up a flyer on Bruin Walk from the external vice president’s office espousing how Proposition 13 reform would help avoid tuition hikes, remember to file it under fake news when you get home. The University of California Students Association, as part of its fund the UC program, is aiming to instigate reform […]
Abhishek Shetty: Housing should eliminate stay-over fee and extend move-out deadline
Late Friday night, UCLA Housing employees will go door to door on the Hill to make sure that anyone who hasn’t paid the stay-over fee has left. The next day, at the break of dawn, they’ll come back and kick out anyone still in their room. This sounds less like a helpful move-out extension from […]
Abhishek Shetty: USAC’s Bruin News Room lacks innovation, experience despite intentions
When this year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council members campaigned for their offices, they promised a scholarship portal. They promised to tackle housing affordability. They promised to make the campus more eco-friendly. What they didn’t promise was a localized version of NowThis that no one really asked for. Come winter quarter, the USAC Office of the […]
The Quad: UCLA’s cybersecurity system needs an upgrade
For all the think pieces popping up in light of the election about how insulated college campuses are, there’s one thing all that fuzzy, warm protection can’t stop: a cyber attack. Over a month ago, someone hacked into 76 different universities’ websites and embedded random webpages with links to a gambling site. Earlier this month, […]
Abhishek Shetty: Effective successor key to survival of Bernie Sanders’ movement
In five days, the election season will end – just 597 days after Ted Cruz announced his candidacy. And lest we miss the endless madness, there are only around 2640 days left to go until the 2024 Iowa Caucus – an important one for Democrats. Barring a scenario where Halloween costumes are actually a better […]
Abhishek Shetty: Poor infrastructure will send new bike share program downhill
Cyclists are one of those rarities on the UCLA campus, like a celebrity sighting. And even if you were to force a fleet of bikes on the student body, this is unlikely to change. Last week, UCLA announced that it would implement a bike sharing program by spring 2017, and that it has already ordered […]