Truth be told, I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I signed up to study abroad this past summer. I didn’t check for travel warnings, and reading the safety guidelines provided by the study abroad office only caused me stress. I barely checked the weather abroad as I packed my bags. […]
Author Archives: Chloe Lew
Chloe Lew: Passage of Prop. 47 provides new hope for California
The votes have been cast and counted, and it looks like California is finally sorting out its priorities – that is, as supporters have been chanting for months, schools, not prisons. With a majority vote, Proposition 47 passed tonight, effectively reducing the penalty for certain nonviolent crimes from felonies to misdemeanors, and rerouting those funds […]
Chloe Lew: Students should take advantage of off-campus entertainment gems
I must have walked past The Improv Space on Gayley Avenue a hundred times before I actually walked inside. But when I did finally wander in on a Wednesday night last month, three years after the first time I walked past, I stayed. I sat in a plushy theater chair in a cozy, dimly […]
Chloe Lew: University police necessary to solve campus-specific issues
Past faculty member and Senior Associate Dean of Student Affairs Emeritus Berky Nelson has a perception of the Los Angeles Police Department that is tainted by the 44-year-old memory of blood in a Campbell Hall stairwell. In the aftermath of the 1970 Kent State University shootings, police officers from LAPD were called to the UCLA […]
Chloe Lew: Outreach would support progress in student engagement for IGNITE
In California, we invest $62,396 per prisoner per year. That’s a trust fund nearly seven times bigger than the one we ration out per K-12 student. But Proposition 47, also known as the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, can help curb over-incarceration and reduce penalties by allowing Californians to vote on whether seven categories of […]
Chloe Lew: ‘Great Streets’ initiative may make Westwood home
As every Westwood resident knows, walking in the Village is no walk in the park. Nor is driving in the Village, or biking in the village or really doing any sort of moving in the village. The congested and chaotic state of our streets is no groundbreaking revelation. It’s a maddening sacrifice every L.A. commuter […]
Chloe Lew: HeForShe campaign’s call for male presence in feminism vague
Ten days have passed since Emma Watson took the internet by storm with her speech launching HeForShe, “a solidarity movement for gender equality.” Videos of her speech no longer blanket my Facebook feed, and its trending presence has considerably died on Twitter. Ten days have passed since that 13-minute speech to the UN gave me […]