Paying $80 for photocopies and $100 for a new, yet-unimproved, edition of this quarter’s economic theory textbook is a real downer. Which is why the debate regarding high textbook prices is gaining so much ground, and why I have stopped paying those prices. Both the federal government and state legislative bodies have taken up the […]
Author Archives: Jennifer Mishory
Redevelop downtown, but do it right
Any longtime resident of Los Angeles such as myself knows that in reality, there is no such thing as the city of Los Angeles. There is simply a sprawling metropolis of connected communities paying taxes to the same address ““ or to different ones, in the case of tiny independent cities wedged within the city […]
Campus political voices need to speak up
Some students avoid Bruin Walk, evading the incessant fliers and noise in the hopes of making it to class on time. Personally, I go out of my way to make the infamous trek and experience the excited atmosphere that makes up a college campus. But though the voice of the campus has been somewhat lively […]
Fieldwork in the classroom
When second-year public policy graduate students Sarah Simons and John Hellmann went to Pakistan over winter break, they found they were greeted by villagers who were just as eager to promote literacy as they were. “People were welcoming our thoughts on their country,” Hellmann said. “It was a really great dialogue.” The two students went […]
Gen. Clark questions legitimacy of Iraq war in campus lecture
In a public lecture on Monday, Gen. Wesley Clark expressed to an audience of 150 members of the UCLA community his view that the war in Iraq has legal basis but lacks legitimacy. The event took place as part of Clark’s post as a senior fellow at the UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations. Clark, […]
Research must be transparent, unbiased
When I first started working at a UCLA clinical research office about two years ago, I was surprised by the involvement of commercial companies in the university’s research. And when I left my freshman cluster class on biotechnology and society, I was both surprised and disturbed by the trend toward a lack of personal and […]
Facebook peps political activism
On Dec. 12, RunObama.com and DraftObama.org delivered a 12,000 signature petition to Senator Barack Obama to encourage him to run for the 2008 presidency. I was only moderately impressed with such a show of support before he even announced his candidacy ““ until my roommate joined the Facebook group “Barack Obama for President in 2008,” […]