Author Archives: Catherine Liberty Feliciano

Westwood Neighborhood Council brings back vote-by-mail option

The Westwood Neighborhood Council voted Wednesday to spend $3,500 to offer vote by mail for its election cycle next year after city officials eliminated the option earlier this month. Councilmembers were discontented when the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, a city organization that manages Los Angeles neighborhood councils, said last month they would no longer offer […]

Two social movements your high school history textbook probably missed

Think back to your high school history textbooks and try to recall how much space publishers allocated to various social justice movements. Columnist Aram Ghoogasian argued that textbooks’ underrepresentation of different communities’ histories generates the misunderstanding efforts like the recently passed College of Letters and Science’s diversity requirement aims to remediate. Here are two social […]

Throwback Thursday, Week 1: Parking Woes

This Thursday, we’re throwing it back to 25 years ago when Opinion – formerly known as Viewpoint – columnist Rebecca Stone listed parking options of varying inconvenience for her readers and explained UCLA’s complicated history with parking. From UCLA’s first parking lot in 1933 to a Daily Bruin article earlier that year claiming the university […]

UCLA faculty members feel pope brings moral persepctive to activism

Pope Francis returned to Vatican City Sunday evening, but UCLA faculty members and activists expect the impact of his U.S. visit to resonate in social justice communities for much longer. Kent Wong, director of the UCLA Labor Center and a labor studies professor, said he thinks the pope’s visit adds a moral perspective to polarizing […]

Israel consul general talks “the nightmare scenario” of the Iran deal

Congress is scheduled to vote on a resolution to disapprove of the Iran nuclear deal in September. The deal, struck between the United States, Iran and five other world powers, would lift American sanctions on Iran in exchange for the de-escalation of their nuclear program and increased transparency. Critics argue that the deal is ineffective because Iran will still […]

Newly appointed Election Board chair seeks to improve voter turnout

The Undergraduate Students Association Council unanimously appointed a former Election Board member as the 2015-2016 Election Board chair Monday. As the new chair, Lindsay Allen said she intends to improve voter turnout by asking candidates to talk about their platforms instead of themselves and each other next campaign season. Allen, a rising second-year mathematics/economics student, […]