The defining UCLA experience is trying to avoid organizations flyering on Bruin Walk. Clubs must accost students as they head to class or swarm Dickson Plaza each fall for the Enormous Activities Fair to ensure everyone knows they exist. If only a website existed for students to find all these organizations without the daily hassle. […]
Author Archives: Clea Wurster
Clea Wurster: More sexual violence awareness training must be required on the Hill
Bruins, get ready to enter the “red zone.” No, this isn’t another campus tradition like Bruin Bash or the Enormous Activities Fair. Rather, the “red zone” is a term used by sexual assault researchers to describe a six-week period each fall when increased numbers of first-year female students experience sexual violence. About 23 percent of […]
Clea Wurster: Ashe Center website must provide more efficient medical service information
As UCLA students, we know we must use reliable sources, peer-reviewed journals and primary sources for our research. But when it comes to our health care, UCLA has us do basically the opposite. Case in point: the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center website. The Ashe Center website gives very little information about the […]
Clea Wurster: UC must back Senate Bill 320 to improve abortion accessibility
The University of California has been hesitant to come out in support of accessible abortion for students. California Sen. Connie Leyva proposed Senate Bill 320 in February, which would require California colleges to offer medication abortion services at student health centers if there is a pharmacy, or to provide transportation to a health care center […]
Clea Wurster: UCLA libraries’ 24-hour policies encourage unhealthy study habits
It’s 3 a.m. and you saunter over to the library’s coffee machine to snag yet another cup of lukewarm, dishwater-tasting coffee and trudge back to your desk. At least you’ve got an energy drink to wash down the vaguely bitter taste. This may sound like a stereotypical finals-week nightmare, but it’s a reality for more […]
Clea Wurster: Orientation’s slogan ‘consent is sexy’ demands an upgrade
This post was updated on April 12 at 7:30 p.m. April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. What better time to discuss consent and how downright sexy it is? Or at least, that is what UCLA’s orientation wants incoming freshmen to do. The curriculum at UCLA’s summer New Student Orientation is supposed to generate […]
Clea Wurster: Study abroad program must make health care information more accessible
Joe Bruin is in Argentina with the flu, which is rendering him incapable of wandering the streets of Buenos Aires to find a doctor in a language he has a hard time grasping. Luckily, he attended an orientation at the beginning of his UCLA study abroad program, but can’t find information about healthcare now that […]