Winter quarter is coming to an end and you know what that means: time to finish paying up for student fees. Any currently enrolled Bruin can log onto MyUCLA, click on “Finances and Jobs” and click on their BruinBill account to be able to identify which student fees are applied to their enrollment that quarter. […]
Author Archives: Jasmine Aquino
Throwback Thursday: Tracing the origin of overcrowded classrooms at UCLA
Imagine a UCLA lecture hall without a teaching assistant to light the way. Fifty years ago, Bruins didn’t have to imagine it because that was the reality. In 1967, then-Vice Chancellor Charles Young introduced an expansion of “quiz” sections, known as discussion sections to modern UCLA students. Discussions, usually guided by a teaching assistant, offer […]
Jasmine Aquino: Students compelled to engage and act locally are hope for political change
College students have always been anxious about going out into “the real world.” But it’s especially scary now that President-elect Donald Trump will be leading a good amount of it. Trump is repealing environmental regulations, the Affordable Care Act, giving big, rich companies a huge tax cut and putting in place a cabinet that doesn’t […]
Throwback Thursday: Piterberg protests demonstrate student passion that dates back to 1987
It seems students and protests are like little kids and lollipops: The flavors keep changing, but you still can’t separate them. For the past week, students, intent on starting off winter quarter with a bang, have waged protests against the return of Gabriel Piterberg, a history professor accused of sexually harassing two graduate students. This […]
Jasmine Aquino: You can’t reject those with whom you disagree
I came out as bisexual to more than 43,300 people last year in a Daily Bruin column. But my parents weren’t among them. It may be 2016, but it can still be risky for someone to publicly identify as LGBTQ, undocumented or as part of any other marginalized group. And the holidays may be especially […]
Throwback Thursday: Cigarette ads in the Daily Bruin
No matter which page you look at, you won’t find advertisements for cigarettes in today’s edition of the Daily Bruin. But during the 1950s, you could hardly turn a page without seeing a smiling face staring back at you, cigarette in mouth. Before all the scientific data on the negative health effects of tobacco and […]
Jasmine Aquino: Jerry Kang’s student board needs to refocus priorities before it can create change
It’s always promising to see progress, but sometimes progress seems to move at a snail’s pace. Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Jerry Kang’s advisory board, announced in September, follows that pace. Kang’s board consists of student leaders from different student organizations across campus who have been nicknamed “change agents” because of their roles […]