I’m not against the idea that young people have to give a lot of their work away for free. Even before college, volunteer work seems like a prerequisite to give off the impression of the well-rounded student for college admissions. But when does it start to get ridiculous? Enter the unpaid internship. California labor laws […]
Author Archives: Harold Lee
Developing a genuine thirst for knowledge
On the surface, the Daily Bruin office seems like no place for a carefree college student. A windowless, cluttered, stuffy office partitioned by cubicles, it looks like boot camp for the working world. Why would anyone want to spend hours almost every day, sometimes cutting spring breaks or Mother’s Days short, for much of one’s […]
Pick up The Bruin, pick it apart
A few days into my internship last summer at a newspaper in San Bernardino, one of the editors, a veteran in the newspaper industry for over 50 years, told me that newspapers are a dying business. What a great way to try and start a career. His reason? People just don’t read any more. But […]
UCLA executive arrested
Freddrick Mark Brito, who recently held a position raising funds for the David Geffen School of Medicine, has had a history of working under aliases to hide his criminal history and was arrested after holding his position at UCLA for several months. According to university police, Brito was arrested by university police on April 8 […]
New director intends to make students priority
The recent hiring of Bob Williams as the executive director for the Associated Students UCLA signals a shift in management from directors hired outside of the association to a director who has had a long history with ASUCLA. Williams, who has worked for ASUCLA for 25 years, notes that the visions he has for the […]
ASUCLA sets next year’s budget
The Associated Students UCLA’s budget for the next fiscal year was approved at Friday’s board of directors meeting, reflecting a continual decline in sales, as well as an anticipated increase in the students living in the residence halls. ASUCLA is the umbrella organization including both student governments, the retail and food operations and the Communications […]
ASUCLA executive director hired
Bob Williams has worked a long time at UCLA, starting out as an undergraduate employee in the residence halls almost 30 years ago. Now he is the head of Associated Students UCLA, an organization that deals in almost $70 million in sales annually. Williams, whose appointment to be the association’s executive director begins June 1, […]