Author Archives: Chloe Lew

Chloe Lew: LA City Council must follow through on promise to repair sidewalks

Our city’s sidewalks are crumbling, and with them, my faith in the Los Angeles City Council. More than 40 years after it said it would repair our buckled, tree-damaged sidewalks, and almost two months after it agreed in an Americans with Disabilities Act case to spend $1.4 billion to fix them, the city is now […]

Chloe Lew: Campus safe spaces need expansion into classrooms

In the big, bad real world, there are no “safe spaces” – at least, that’s what the media has been warning college students lately. From The New York Times to Time, columnists have been condescendingly slamming college safe spaces for “coddling” and “infantilizing” our hypersensitive generation by letting students avoid uncomfortable truths. But here’s a […]

Chloe Lew: Students must make effort to be allies in substance abuse recovery

Three years and four months sober, first-year psychology student Marissa Ericson still wakes up in the middle of the night from the same recurring dream of shooting up heroin, a drug she has never touched. For Ericson, who began drinking and smoking cigarettes at the age of 11 and underwent rehabilitation at 16, being a […]

Chloe Lew: USAC internal vice president should revamp underutilized campus spots

Most of my first friendships at UCLA were consolidated in the dorms, sprawled across Rendezvous-stained couches in the floor lounge or losing badly at pool in the recreation rooms. But when I moved off of the Hill, I quickly realized that the places I grew so fond of in the dorms my freshman year didn’t […]

Chloe Lew: Eliminating jargon key to uniting students of different majors

I wasted a lot of my time at college feeling patronized – not for what I studied, but for what I didn’t study. For a while, being an English student – and not a science, technology, engineering or mathematics student as most of my friends were – meant that it was okay to be called […]

Chloe Lew: Yik Yak brings bigotry to forefront, creates impetus for change

Ever since I downloaded Yik Yak, I have been searching for a reason to delete it. In the last few months, “riding the Yak” has become routine for me – partly in search of a laugh, but mostly in search of the one racist, sexist, bigoted or outright hateful post that would be my breaking […]