The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music boasts nearly 500 students. Each spring quarter, one of the longest-running annual collegiate music contests, Spring Sing, takes over Pauley Pavilion with dozens of acts. Yet, beyond concerts at the Fowler Museum and Schoenberg Hall, the student music scene in Westwood is all but nonexistent. With no venues […]
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Editorial: UCLA must be transparent about superbug investigation
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Faulty scopes. There are some aspects of a recent deadly superbug outbreak that were outside of UCLA’s control. But the university is to blame for a lack of transparency and breach of public trust surrounding the deadly bacteria. In December, the first infected patient came to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center with […]
Editorial: Zero-based budgeting a promising approach to hold UC accountable
State legislators are putting University of California officials in the hot seat this week by picking through each line of the 2015-2016 UC budget in a long-overdue examination of the system’s finances. Since her reelection as Assembly speaker in November, Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) has championed a “zero-based” budgeting approach for the UC in which […]
Editorial: Long-overdue changes to USAC Election Code help ensure transparency
On Tuesday night, the Undergraduate Students Association Council finally voted to amend its flawed and often vague Election Code. On the whole, the changes council made will go far in ensuring fair and transparent elections in spring, although there was one kink in the code left unaddressed by the most recent update. First, the council […]
Editorial: UCSA resolution misses point of using divestment as tool for activism
On a particularly busy Sunday, the University of California Student Association passed two different divestment resolutions. One resolution recommended divestment from certain companies that profit from alleged human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in a nod to the larger campaign that has been sweeping across the UC. But the other resolution, […]
Editorial: Objections to USAC Judicial Board appointment discriminatory
Religious affiliations and ethnic identity should not and do not disqualify someone from being an effective judge. And yet, at Tuesday night’s Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting, that’s exactly what councilmembers were arguing. During the meeting, several councilmembers, including General Representative 3 Fabienne Roth, General Representative 1 Manjot Singh, Transfer Student Representative Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed and […]
Editorial: 24-hour Hedrick study lounge exorbitantly expensive, unnecessary
UCLA housing officials plan to spend $8.2 million over the next year to build a needlessly expensive study spot in Hedrick dining hall. Of the total cost, $2.4 million is set to go to architectural costs, including finishings and furnishings. About $2.5 million would go to electrical, mechanical and plumbing costs, and the rest would […]