Dear Reader, We’ve done it: Fall quarter is finally within reach. Before we know it, students will be immersing themselves in campus activities and organizations, lamenting the perils of the quarter system and living the daily Bruin life. Staff will return to providing for the campus’ nearly 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and administrators will […]
Author Archives: Keshav Tadimeti
LAPD’s drone use proposal raises privacy, misuse concerns
Los Angeles community members spoke up at a public forum in Westwood on Wednesday against city police’s proposed use of drone technology. At the Wednesday night meeting, Los Angeles Police Department officers addressed residents’ concerns about a proposal to allow the department to use nonweaponized drones, or small, unmanned aerial devices, to aid in police […]
Keshav Tadimeti: Rest of system needs to learn from UC Irvine admissions debacle
United Airlines can rest easy: The University of California, Irvine has officially stolen the title of “organization most likely to kick people off its premises because of overbooked seating.” Two weeks ago, UCI withdrew admission for nearly 500 students for poor senior-year grades or not sending in their high school transcripts on time, according to […]
Keshav Tadimeti: Funding is required for universal health care in California to work
It seems fitting that while Southern California is trying to battle raging wildfires, Sacramento is rank with the smell of cindered health care legislation. Last month, California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon suspended Senate Bill 562, a bill that would overhaul the state’s health care market to make way for a universal or single-payer health […]
The Quad: 100 years ago, UCLA professors organized senior send-off for students
Remember that time your chemistry professor partied with you? Yeah, neither do I. One hundred years ago, however, graduating seniors didn’t just have the privilege of attending parties with their professors; they had the privilege of attending parties organized by the professors themselves. Rewind back a century: UCLA was a mere teacher’s education school called […]
Throwback Thursday: The page-turning process of selecting The Bruin’s 2000-2001 editor staff
UCLA’s unofficial journalism school officially finished its spring turnover this week. Emails were sent, cries of joys were expressed and Kerckhoff 118’s new tribal leaders were announced with pomp and circumstance. That’s right, the Daily Bruin’s new editorial staff was announced this week. Everyone from the five assistant News editors to the lone assistant Blogging […]
Radio: No Offense, But: 2017 USAC election
No Offense is back and here to talk about the undergraduate student government elections. Keshav Tadimeti and opinion columnist Abhishek Shetty are joined by News senior staffers Catherine Feliciano and Rupan Bharanidaran to discuss this year’s results and shed some light on the future of UCLA slate politics.