“Early Wednesday morning, leaders of the undergraduate student government made a decision to deny hundreds of assembled community members basic information necessary in assessing their student government.” That’s what the Daily Bruin Editorial Board wrote in 2014 after that year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council used a secret ballot to cast a vote on a resolution […]
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Editorial: University’s handling of upcoming SJP conference threatens First Amendment rights
This post was updated Nov. 13 at 2:32 a.m. UCLA is no stranger to ideologically charged campus events. Be it a talk in Ackerman Union by Ben Shapiro, a conservative commentator, or a lecture in Royce Hall by Rahm Emanuel, Chicago mayor and former poster child of the Democratic Party, administrators have always had the […]
Editorial Board: Centralized on-campus voting seems convenient, does not curb long wait times
The blue wave came and went. But at UCLA, it wasn’t ideology that kept students from voting – it was long lines. Tuesday’s midterm elections were a critical point for the United States’ government, with students’ votes not only affecting who represents California in Washington, D.C., but also state policies regarding critical areas like taxation […]
Daily Bruin Editorial Board 2018 California midterm election endorsements
There’s a lot on Tuesday’s midterm election ballot. Here are the Daily Bruin Editorial Board’s picks for the races and ballot propositions that most pertain to the UCLA community. Read everything from who our pick for the next California governor is to whether the state should legalize rent control policies. National public offices US Senator: […]
Editorial: Gavin Newsom for governor
Californians have two options for their next governor: a slick politician and a businessman struggling to get your attention. On one hand, there’s Gavin Newsom, California’s incumbent lieutenant governor and someone who’s been on the gubernatorial campaign for so long that his technical answers sound like campaign slogans. Newsom is a former two-term San Francisco […]
Editorial: Ed Hernandez for lieutenant governor
California’s office of the lieutenant governor might just be fulfilling ceremonial responsibilities in the absence of the governor, but UCLA students should take a special interest in this year’s candidates. Among other roles, the elected candidate will sit on the University of California Board of Regents and wield the ability to write policies influencing the […]
Editorial: Xavier Becerra for attorney general
California has posed itself as an avid resistor of Donald Trump’s presidency. It only makes sense its attorney general, the state’s litigator in chief, would echo this sentiment. And Xavier Becerra most definitely does. Becerra is the incumbent attorney general of California, having served since 2017 after Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) left the position to become […]