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The two instances of hateful vandalism that occurred on campus last quarter point to the importance of ongoing efforts to gauge whether students feel accepted at UCLA. In November, racial and sexist slurs were found written on a Vietnamese Student Union sign and in a Powell Library bathroom. These incidents are part of a history […]

Though the University of California-wide budgetary reform known as “rebenching” addresses the issue of funding inequality across campuses, the proposed policy lacks nuance in its approach to distributing funds.

The proposal to allocate some of the undergraduate student government’s surplus money into an endowment would address the issue of instability in funding but does not resolve the main problem at hand.

The UCLA community’s reaction last week to multiple occurrences of vandalism on campus involving racial and sexist slurs highlighted the hurtful consequences that such actions can create.

Blanket changes by the UCLA Graduate Division to its leave of absence policies will leave some graduate students out in the rain with few affordable options to pursue long-term academic projects.

Despite significant changes in the state’s finances over the years, the University of California is still tied to the guidance of a half-century old blueprint: the California Master Plan for Higher Education.

The University of California Board of Regents is once again dancing to Gov. Jerry Brown’s tunes. And students at the University’s professional schools may soon bear the costs of this puppet show.