Author Archives: Arthur Wang

Know your issues: National race relations are integral to campus climate issues

Opinion columnists outline the issues incoming students need to know, but aren’t always told. Here are the things your new student advisor doesn’t tell you at orientation. The UCLA viewbook’s claim that the campus sees 329 days of sunshine a year has long amused me. Not that it isn’t true, but it betrays darker realities […]

Arthur Wang: UC transfer advice comes best from transfer students

Love or hate Janet Napolitano, the head of the University of California has done more significant work to call attention to transfer students than any other UC president in recent memory. Her commitment to transfer students, which has involved repeated verbal commitments and the creation of a task force devoted to improving the transfer process, […]

Misinterpretation of professors’ tweets leads to accusations of racism

It’s been a tumultuous year for American society, especially with a series of race-related and racially-motivated incidents that have rocked suburbs and communities around the country. We have been forced to reconsider the salience of race and how that affects what it means to be American. That these incidents have been occurring with astonishing regularity […]

A Timeline of Daily Bruin Same-Sex Marriage Coverage

In a landmark Friday decision, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriages are legal and must be recognized in all 50 states. The case, Obergefell v. Hodges, is the culmination of decades of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender advocacy. Mojo looks at the Daily Bruin’s coverage of this divisive cultural issue on the UCLA campus and in state […]

Arthur Wang: UC application should include optional letters of recommendation

Looking for a job? Consider becoming an admissions officer after graduation, because UC Berkeley is bracing for the possibility of having to review up to 160,000 additional pages of application materials to select the fall 2016 entering cohort. That’s because the campus quietly introduced a new policy earlier this year that allows students applying during […]

Arthur Wang: TED talks must encourage discussion to avoid uncritical thinking

Everybody seems to love TED. The conference and its talks – in which topics such as innovation, creativity and learning are frequently discussed – have become well-regarded fountains of popular intellect. Yet not even the feel-good, do-good style of TED talks is above criticism. Criticism of TED, in fact, is nothing new. It’s been called […]