The UCLA Bruin football team begins its season in less than a week. This is exciting! This is one of the reasons why you came to UCLA! “Wait,” you say. “I actually chose this school because of its academics and social atmosphere – I couldn’t care less about sports.” Sports might not be everyone’s highest […]
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A guide to the UCLA Bruins for students who don’t follow football
The UCLA Bruin football team begins its season in less than a week. This is exciting! This is one of the reasons why you came to UCLA! “Wait,” you say. “I actually chose this school because of its academics and social atmosphere – I couldn’t care less about sports.” Sports might not be everyone’s highest […]
Arthur Wang: Chinese nationals and Americans do not share views on Asian supremacy
A Chinese national studying law in the United States recently wrote an essay about affirmative action that was published on Foreign Affairs, bombastically titled “I’m Chinese, and I Know Why There Aren’t More Asians in the Ivy League.” I thought this was a little weird. Why would a Chinese national write about a domestic policy […]
Arthur Wang: Policy, history aid in Asian American success, not cultural values
“UCLA stands for UC Lots of Asians.” I’m sure you have heard that one before. Asians are everywhere at UCLA – 34 percent of undergraduates, to be exact. Around 15 percent of the Ivy League students is Asian, even as that number is 4.8 percent nationally. Those are facts. But what everyone wants to know […]
Arthur Wang: Arguments for and against validity of microagression need scrutiny
Microaggressions sound like no big deal, but let me tell you – the feverish discussions centering on the concept recently should be called “macroaggressive.” Microaggression theory, which first emerged in the 1970s, refers to unintended, albeit harmful, slights and comments toward another individual, usually a member of a disadvantaged group. Examples include telling a black […]
Timeline: A brief history of activism at UCLA (1969-present)
As it approaches its centennial, UCLA will almost certainly be celebrated as a university with a stellar academics, deep commitment to research endeavors across many disciplines and, of course, a legendary 112-NCAA-title-winning cluster of athletics programs. Not-so-surreptitiously missing from that list? Any mention of student activism. When it comes to protest-happy campuses, Berkeley first comes […]