SOOF, CPC, CAC, PAB, ASUCLA, USA, SGA, GSA, SWC and even TGIF. As two-year director of an on-campus youth mentorship organization, I still find myself lost in the sea of UCLA funding acronyms. Parsing through different UCLA funds and fund-granting committees is a daunting step – whenever I need to apply for large annual allocations […]
Author Archives: Arman Sharif
Arman Sharif: Enrollment increases are irresponsible, hinder quality of education
This year’s incoming class will bring almost 1,000 more bodies to campus than last year’s 8,786 newly admitted freshmen and transfer students. If you think this is just another drop in the big bucket of the most populated college in California, it might be a little more unnerving to know that the University of California […]
Arman Sharif: Checking ourselves before scapegoating others in post-Orlando America
The Bruin community was under national spotlight three weeks ago as we tried to heal from a lockdown and murder-suicide on our campus. Gun violence had officially come to our home, and we lamented becoming the 186th school shooting since Sandy Hook in 2012. Wracked with fear, we attempted to move onward from the senseless […]
Arman Sharif: Transphobic speech highlights need for education on gender issues
The now-infamous photo depicting three members of Bruin Republicans’ leadership smiling and clutching unapologetically transphobic signs has made viral rounds on the internet. These students’ words are reprehensible hate speech: “Get your agenda out of my restroom,” “There are only two genders” and “Transgenderism is a mental disorder.” They did damage that affects an already […]
Arman Sharif: Middle Easterners, so white that we’re invisible
Your friends just left for Cabo to forget about their mediocre final exam grades while you’re at home, quietly sitting with your family, getting ready to usher in the spring equinox. You may be an Iranian college student on spring break. Norooz, the Iranian New Year and first day of spring, coincided with spring break […]
Regents approve plan to increase UC resident enrollment by 10,000
This post was updated on Nov. 19 at 4:55 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO — The University of California Regents approved an operating budget plan Thursday that will aim to increase resident enrollment in the UC by 10,000 students over the next three years. According to the operating budget plan for 2016-2017, the University will increase resident […]