“No Offense, But” is back for the final podcast of the year. Join outgoing Opinion editor Keshav Tadimeti, outgoing assistant Opinion editor Ani Gasparyan and columnist Enming Zhang talk about UCLA’s plan to reduce enrollment rates and grow summer classes. After the break, they bring out the tissue boxes for administrators’ lack of transparency and […]
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In my time at The Bruin, I learned to value the story, not the storyteller -30-
Storytellers have a curse: They’re not their stories. I know, it’s ironic. And I could end my final column for the Daily Bruin right there. But that would seem absurd, not just because you’d expect someone who’s edited nearly 40 of these farewell pieces to give you some quality words of wisdom, but also because […]
As it strays further from its roots, a UC education is a dream deferred
Langston Hughes had it right: A dream deferred sags like a heavy load. Then, it snaps like a twig. Someone better find some super glue for the more-than-238,000 students of the University of California. Indeed a UC education is a college dream deferred. The education system meant to empower hundreds of thousands of Californians has […]
No Offense, But: Fees and football
“No Offense, But” is back for the penultimate podcast of the year. Join Opinion editor Keshav Tadimeti and columnists Andrew Raychawdhuri and Reilly Berberian as they talk about the potentially egregious misuse of student fees by UCLA. After a quick break, they talk about a nonissue that has been setting Westwood ablaze: synthetic soccer fields.
UC’s tuition hikes overlook overarching issue of graduate student under-enrollment
Finish the puzzle. Deferred enrollment – the process of stashing your admit letter so you can make the world a better place for another year before having to learn how to play rage cage. Deferred maintenance – the process of snoozing the alarm clock alerting you that infrastructure, like those rusty elevators in Boelter Hall, […]
No Offense, But: Sharing bikes and elections
“No Offense, But” is back in your feeds with another wonderful podcast – this time about UCLA Transportation’s failing Bruin Bike Share program and about the ongoing North Westwood Neighborhood Council election. Join Opinion editor Keshav Tadimeti and columnists Lucy Carroll, Andrew Raychawdhuri and Marcella Pensamiento as they break down the failures of bikeshare at […]
No Offense, But: The 2019 USAC election
This year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council featured the lowest voter turnout in at least the past decade, an eye-popping number of empty seats on the council table and a remarkable lack of fanfare. The Daily Bruin’s Opinion editor Keshav Tadimeti, senior staff columnist Abhishek Shetty, columnists Edgerrin Panaligan and Enming Zhang, and campus politics editor […]