On Tuesday night, more than 100 students crowded into the Kerckhoff Grand Salon. Many of them sat on the floor, while others stood in the back. For about two and a half hours, they took turns speaking and cheering one another on.
Author Archives: Eitan Arom
Letter to the Editor: USAC confident that budget review will be unbiased
Thank you for featuring the Undergraduate Students Association Council Internal Vice President’s Quarterly Budget Review initiative in Natalie Delgadillo’s column, “USAC budget reporting should be inclusive process” on Oct. 16. We welcome thorough discussion of our initiatives to make USAC more transparent to its constituents. However, I’d like to address a couple of the issues […]
Eitan Arom: UCLA needs more hands-on programs
For three academic quarters out of the year, Public Affairs 4317 is a normal classroom, part of the California Center for Population Research. But for the past two summers, it has been transformed into something very different. From July to September, the room was a forest of ergonomic chairs, Macbooks and whiteboards scrawled over with business strategies. […]
Eitan Arom: UCLA shouldn’t hide behind academic freedom
We like to think our private communications are just that: private. They are insulated, we hope, from the prying eyes of politicians, reporters and corporate lawyers. For professors at UCLA and other UC campuses – and indeed public employees and officials of all stripes – that privacy is not so certain. On its face, the […]
Submission: UCLA professor distressed by appointment of Napolitano as UC president
How would you feel if you were a UCLA student and the incoming University of California president had deported your mom, dad, brother and sister? That’s the simple reason why former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano’s appointment as the newest UC president has raised so much controversy among many of us in the UCLA community. Between […]
Submission: UC Council of Presidents drafts letter to Janet Napolitano
As the elected undergraduate and graduate student body Presidents of the University of California, we collectively represent those whom you have decided to serve in your acceptance of your new position as President of the UC system – the more than 200,000 people who will shape the future of this great state.
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