UCLA, like any college, is a stressful place. Final exams, internship applications and club commitments ensure students are rigid with tension as their minds and bodies are put to the test. With so much demanded of them, university housing is a godsend to strung-out students. They don’t have to worry about shady landlords, subpar living […]
Author Archives: Chris Busco
Chris Busco: UCLA should be more explicit about its auto-lock and room-use policies
With finals fast approaching, UCLA students have begun looking for quiet rooms to hunker down and spend numerous caffeine-fueled hours cramming for tests, papers and projects. With libraries filled to the brim, empty classrooms can look like the perfect place to set up shop for a successful study session. Until they auto-lock, that is. UCLA’s […]
Chris Busco: New voting plan apt but may disenfranchise students if poorly executed
UCLA students are ready to demand action on Capitol Hill after a politically tumultuous year and a half. The midterm elections give them a perfect opportunity to do so. If they can reach the ballot box, that is. Voting at UCLA is notoriously a nightmare. In previous years, the university administration worked with the Los […]
Chris Busco: UCLA must enforce campus filming policy with YouTubers
It’s straight out of a Hollywood movie: the rolling, grassy hills by Janss Steps are dotted with students soaking up some California sunshine as they pore over class materials. However, for one woman, the fantasy is shattered as a random man approaches her exclaiming,“Your booty is getting burnt, would you like some tanning lotion?” What […]
Chris Busco: UCLA should act on longstanding security threats to university apartments
On the morning of Feb. 6, the University Apartments North Administration Office sent an email to UCLA’s university apartment residents detailing serious crimes that occurred within the immediate off-campus vicinity. Notwithstanding such crimes, numerous undergraduate residents went home that evening to unsecured university apartment complexes. Just this school year, there have been three burglaries in […]
Chris Busco: California marijuana laws are convoluted, designed to harm small businesses
California rang in the new year by opening the world’s largest marijuana economy. Too bad the only people getting high off the market will be those who can afford to navigate the botched patchwork of regulations and large fees the state government has in store for them. In 2016, California voters overwhelmingly chose to legalize […]
Chris Busco: Student groups should not have to pay licensing fees to use UCLA logo
UCLA should be a place that all students can call home. Too bad there’s a price on that now. Student organizations on campus often like to recognize themselves as part of UCLA, be that through club T-shirts, hats or other accessories. What many don’t know is that the university charges these student groups royalties to […]