Admit it; you are proud of your battle scars. Everyone’s got a glory tale from the third-grade playground or remains of old scrapes and cuts that they brandish at times to color certain childhood memories. But according to some elementary school administrators, these barbaric “contact games,” as many schools in the U.S. call them, not […]
Author Archives: Rashmi Joshi
Bruins to feel the pain when SHAs go
There will be no one to go to for emergency condoms next year. No one giving out aspirin for cramps and fevers, or ice packs for random accidents. The Student Health Advocate Program is breathing its last sighs this year, ladies and gentlemen. “The SHA program is definitely ending this year,” confirms SHA Durrain Haq, […]
Green cards don’t equal greener pastures
Place your ear as close as you can to this paper and you may actually hear the heavy whooshing sound of 1.1 million people falling through the cracks. And that was just last year, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Web site. Even though the immigration issue is very nuanced, all we hear […]
A small world, after all, benefits us all
Starbucks in remote corners of Mexico and boba drinks in Westwood, Nelly playing in a McDonald’s in Paris and hookah bars in Los Angeles. We are knee deep in global interaction and the level is constantly rising. We found a way to circumnavigate the Earth, to predict its weather patterns, to take pictures of it […]
Make college into a tale of two cities
Tell me you don’t want to stroll down the streets of Paris, or that you’ve never thought about spending a year among gondolas. Flamboyant destinations such as China, India or Brazil must have flitted through your mind, yet here you stand with the rest of us, two feet stubbornly planted on terra firma in the […]
Transparency over opacity
Members of the United Nations and students at UCLA have achieved a strange parallel in recent months. Both institutions are in the midst of choosing new leadership, one searching for a new secretary-general and the other a new chancellor. Yet in both cases, people have been left clueless in the waiting room, straining to hear […]
Campaign spending needs more limitations
The horns are out and blaring to announce the upcoming elections, and the ever-conscious political pundits and bloggers are catching on to whispers of the GOP possibly losing the House to the Democrats, raising the price tag on many congressional races. Money is flying everywhere, or at least it has just begun to, and as […]