Tuesday’s student council meeting was about as divisive and damaging as we all knew it would be.
But some of the damage didn’t come from the expected places.
Author Archives: Natalie Delgadillo
Natalie Delgadillo: UCLA should be upfront, create uniform policy on mental health issues
Next week is mental health awareness week. As universities across the country are navigating a series of crises regarding mental health and higher education – including a loss of funding for mental health resources due to the expiration of Proposition 63 in California and nationwide debate about involuntary psychiatric withdrawal policies – UCLA student government […]
Natalie Delgadillo: Independence of student publications is critical
Newspapers have one basic job: Report the news, come hell or high water. Reporting the news can mean different things to different people, but in its most basic sense, it just means writing what happened – telling the truth and holding people and institutions accountable by doing so. But when a newspaper, or any news […]
Natalie Delgadillo: Independent candidates’ slate affiliations still apparent
After student government election results were announced Friday, The Daily Bruin tweeted that there was now an independent plurality on council – six councilmembers that had no affiliation with any slate. Technically, that is true. Every candidate that ran for the two open positions in this fall’s special election ran as an “independent,” ostensibly unaffiliated […]
Natalie Delgadillo: Involuntary withdrawal policies must be accessible to students
For the past four days, I have been scouring the Internet and calling several people in UCLA administration and Media Relations, asking a simple policy question: Are students ever forcibly withdrawn from school here because of mental health issues? In February, Newsweek magazine published a widely read and discussed story on the way colleges deal […]
Students should push Gov. Brown to prioritize funding UC maintenance
Gov. Jerry Brown has repeatedly refused the University of California state funds throughout this year, despite a surplus and a declining financial situation at all ten campuses across the state. But students have remained strangely silent about Brown’s minimal support for higher education. Generally, students push for better financial aid and lower tuition. But when […]
Editor’s note: The Bruin is open to input from the UCLA community
To the Reader: In the short time that I’ve been an editor for this paper, there has been one ringing criticism that I fear more than any other: We, as editors and writers cloistered here in the windowless rooms of Kerckhoff 118, have lost touch with what people on this campus care about. And I […]