A college counselor’s advice can make or break your academic career. But at UCLA, you’ll probably break down before you even get to their office. At least, if you’re a transfer student. Most community college students dream of the day they finally transfer to a four-year university. We spend long hours in our counselors’ offices […]
Author Archives: Ani Gasparyan
Ani Gasparyan: Crisis pregnancy centers restrict reproductive rights, endanger women’s health
Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States left many afraid of the danger his confirmation would pose to reproductive rights in America. But the fact is reproductive rights were never safe to begin with. And the Supreme Court proved just that in June. The groundbreaking legalization of abortion marked the emergence […]
Ani Gasparyan: Allowing union grievances would better protect students from sexual harassment
Graduate students make numerous sacrifices for their academic careers. The biggest one: having to put their future on hold so they don’t have to work with academic advisers who sexually harass them. Graduate students within the University of California system who report sexual harassment are given little protection. Prosecuting those found to have committed sexual […]
Ani Gasparyan: UCLA departments should refrain from using Eurocentric terms like ‘Middle East’
The “Middle East” is ever-present in the news. We hear it in mainstream media. Our elected representatives toss the phrase around. Universities even use the phrase when naming their academic departments. There’s just one question: middle east of what? The countries that are included in the region have alternated throughout history and continue to change […]
UC proposes for transfer program to guarantee systemwide admission
UCLA students and faculty said they think a new initiative that guarantees certain California community college students admission into the University of California would provide more opportunities for California students to attend UCs. Eloy Ortiz Oakley, chancellor of the California Community Colleges, and UC President Janet Napolitano signed an agreement April 11 for a proposal […]
Student-worker union negotiates with UC, demands protections, benefits
Student workers from the University of California demanded the UC implement new anti-discrimination and harassment provisions at a union contract negotiation session Thursday. UAW Local 2865, the UC student-workers union, called for the UC to create procedures that value and protect survivors of sexual assault, as well as extend paid maternity and paternity leave from […]
Ani Gasparyan: Departments should offer more variety in, quantity of honors courses
University honors programs are known for offering rigorous coursework that requires students be fiercely dedicated to applying themselves academically. UCLA’s honors courses, however, aren’t just difficult to complete, they are difficult to get into. College Honors is an academic program that caters to students committed to enriching their academic careers by taking on the extra […]