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Author Archives: Lara Loewenstein
Universities must learn from handling of shooting
There are a few questions that have been circulating with regard to the Virginia Tech shootings. How many lives could have been saved if the administration had reacted differently? How would UCLA respond if such an event happened? It’s pretty obvious that the administration of Virginia Tech could have responded differently. But what’s more important […]
Exorbitant expense of fornication nothing new, but still blows
After a recent appointment at the Ashe Center, I was informed that I would now have to pay $30 a month to not get pregnant, double the price of what I was expecting. I blame the man. Obviously drug companies, the government and my mom are out to stop me from living my life as […]
The commencement of my search for a dream job
I’ve started a countdown. I now have 71 days until I graduate from UCLA. And counting. I should be excited, right? I should be waiting for commencement with anxious excitement. It should be one of my happiest moments. After all, it’s a goal I have strived for since elementary school. But instead, I’m dreading June […]
Getting over grad school and grades
As finals are fast approaching, I’m reminded of how much people misinterpret what academia is for, and more specifically, how important grades actually are. For example, in my experience at least, finals week has often been filled with moans and groans that go something like this: “But if I don’t get a(n) __ I won’t […]
What the heck? It’s only squirrel sex
Squirrels in Santa Monica love getting jiggy with it. So much so that now the city is faced with a squirrel-population problem. In fact, the population of squirrels in Palisades Park has become such a risk for residents that the city of Santa Monica has decided to give the squirrels birth-control shots ““ an immuno-contraceptive […]
Straight talk on sex from start can only help
Children are sexual beings. Obviously not for our, or any older person’s, sexual pleasure, but rather autonomous sexual people. After all, we’re all born with genitals and many of us touch them from an early age. But while we’re born with the equipment and the desire, we’re not born with the knowledge. We have no […]