Come Tuesday evening, the undergraduate student government faces the challenge of voting on a resolution with the potential to greatly divide the student body and alienate campus communities regardless of the outcome.
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Editorial: Lack of streetlights poses danger to Westwood renters
Three UCLA students were assaulted and robbed in Westwood during the first half of February – a less than two-week span. All three crimes took place near the same stretch of Ophir Drive, which spans the North Village from Landfair Avenue to Veteran Avenue, an area heavily populated by UCLA students. The number of crimes […]
Editorial: Napolitano represents UC, US values at Sochi Olympics
Shortly before leaving for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, University of California President Janet Napolitano told California radio station KQED that she would bring the University’s values of “openness and tolerance” with her to the Russian coast. Napolitano led the high-profile U.S. delegation at the Feb. 7 opening ceremony, which notably included a number […]
Editorial: Afro-American Studies must be given departmental status, support
A proposal to upgrade the Afro-American Studies Interdepartmental Program into the Department of African American Studies is in its final stages of review. It is essential that those reviewing the proposal not only pass it, but pass it as soon as possible and with the promise of sufficient support so that the new department can […]
Editorial: USAC should live stream, archive meetings
UCLA’s undergraduate student government recently announced plans to live stream its meetings, a change it hopes to implement before the end of the quarter. But at last night’s meeting, the Undergraduate Students Association Council voted to table indefinitely a proposal to purchase a camera for a live stream. Several councilmembers objected, as they have in […]
Editorial: Secrecy around diversity vice chancellor selection troubling
UCLA has been surprisingly tight-lipped about its progress in creating and filling a new vice chancellor position to address concerns about diversity raised by an independent report earlier this academic year. The report, produced by an ad hoc committee headed by former California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno, found UCLA policies about allegations of racial […]
Editorial: Board of Regents needs educators as members
The UC Board of Regents runs one of the largest public university systems in the nation, but most of its members are business executives with little or no professional experience in education. A new addition to the board, Richard Sherman, who was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown earlier this month, is similar to the majority […]