When campus climate is used as a political weapon, it degrades the concept and hurts all students. That’s what happened last Friday when the California Assembly’s Select Committee on Campus Climate held a hearing at UCLA’s James West Alumni Center to discuss campus climate issues throughout the state of California. If you didn’t hear about […]
Author Archives: Rahim Kurwa
Submission: GSA president must be held accountable for improper conduct
A lot has been said about Graduate Students Association President Milan Chatterjee’s behavior during his term of office. And frankly, it would be great if the issues around the GSA president and his conduct simply disappeared. But unfortunately, the GSA president has engaged in unacceptable behavior that a healthy student government system cannot simply sweep […]
Submission: Viewpoint neutrality needed from Graduate Students Association
In October 2015, the president of the Graduate Students Association told the Diversity Caucus that it would fund their Diversity Caucus Town Hall event only on the condition that the event have “zero connection” to the “Divest from Israel” movement – a reference to the student movement campaigning to divest specifically from American and international […]