Carolanne Link, a second-year electrical engineering student with cerebral palsy, spends roughly two hours every day riding the UCLA Office for Students with Disabilities van, but when she looks around at her co-passengers, she said, she can’t tell what each person is dealing with. On a campus with approximately 2,500 students with disabilities registered with […]
Author Archives: Chloe Lew
Chloe Lew: Evaluations should reflect instruction quality, not gender bias
This myth goes all the way back to the elementary school playground: Men are from Mars and women are from Venus. We’re in college now, but variations of this gender divide just keep on coming. An interactive chart developed by a professor at Northeastern University lets you plug in any word – for instance, “genius” […]
Chloe Lew: Sexual assault policy needs more transparency
If the university is going to make employees divulge information about their friends and colleagues, the least it could do is give up some of its own. Five days ago, I started looking for information regarding mandatory reporters of issues such as sexual assault at UCLA. I came up, for the most part, empty-handed – […]
Chloe Lew: Capstone courses could ease students into professional world
This quarter, I’m taking my capstone seminar – what I’ve always thought of as the big, grand culmination of my four-year baccalaureate degree. But when I tell my friends I’m in this class, I’m mostly met with blank faces, which you can imagine makes the news rather anti-climactic. Each of these blank faces becomes doubly […]
Chloe Lew: Nonresident students should not be used as financial crutches for UC
As a native Californian, I’ve always felt shamelessly privileged with the best – the beautiful West Coast, eternal sunshine, celebrity neighbors and about $23,000 less in tuition fees at the University of California than nonresidents. But that last privilege of a less costly tuition is now being compromised: for the last six years, Californians have […]
Chloe Lew: Greek community should work together to address sexual assault
In the three weeks since a Rolling Stone piece – now being questioned for its accuracy – described the horrific fraternity gang-rape of a female student at the University of Virginia, few have been safe from blame. Our nation is scrambling to point fingers – at Rolling Stone for its lack of journalistic integrity; at […]
Chloe Lew: Student protests necessary to bring issues to light on campus
There’s a tendency to measure student protests by their sheer size and volume. The more noise the students make, the more successful a demonstration appears. But our college campuses may now be taking the more peaceful route. In a Chronicle of Higher Education article, professors and administrators in higher education suggest there has been a […]