This quarter alone Kendal Drucker’s three textbooks cost her almost $400. Drucker, a second-year psychology student, is involved in the California Public Interest Research Group, or CALPIRG, which is working to get professors at UCLA to join a movement toward open-source textbooks and other affordable online course materials With the costs of textbooks rising, open-source […]
Author Archives: Julia McCarthy
Julia McCarthy: UCLA should support Westwood bike lanes
Danielle Casillas still feels numbness in her leg from her collision with a truck last year. Casillas, a material science and engineering graduate student, was biking her usual commute to UCLA when the accident happened. Now she takes the bus, though she said if there were more bike lanes in Westwood she would consider switching […]
Julia McCarthy: Report describing LA’s problems does little to solve them
The Los Angeles 2020 Commission report “A Time For Truth” presents a paradox to the reader: it seeks to educate, but succeeds only in trivializing the issues it presents. The report lays out a wide range of significant problems facing Los Angeles, but it does so only in vague overviews. Without a better understanding of […]
The UC mobilizes to repeal federal sequester cuts
With Congress’ budget deadline coming up on Friday, the 10 campuses in the University of California and other groups in the UC are mobilizing efforts to combat federal sequester cuts. The 10 UC chancellors and UC President Janet Napolitano wrote a letter to California’s congressional representatives last month, outlining the negative impacts sequester cuts have already […]
Mandela influential in UC’s approach to anti-apartheid cause
From his prison cell on a small island off the coast of South Africa, Nelson Mandela revolutionized UCLA’s impact on and the UC’s involvement in, the anti-apartheid movement during the 1980s. Mandela, South Africa’s first democratically elected black president, died on Thursday at 95 years old. The revolutionary leader worked as a lawyer and political activist […]
UCLA professor creates database to curb discrimination
A UCLA professor is creating the first national database to document incidents of racial profiling in an effort to decrease racial discrimination in law enforcement. Psychology Professor Phillip Goff, co-founder and president of the Center for Policing Equity, is currently spearheading the new project that will provide police with a way to record racial profiling incidents […]