I commute to my job at UCLA by bicycle. Most mornings I also ride my 8-year-old kid to school on a detachable trailer bike. It has taken some time to find a route that felt adequately safe for this journey, and I’m still not convinced some days that I’ve quite hit the mark. But City […]
Category Archives: Community
Submission: Discount roof parking will improve lot utilization, efficiency
UCLA strongly supports social and economic equality, but its parking system makes the Titanic look like a one-class ship. There are 48 different types of parking permits, ranked according to the status of faculty, staff and students. To explain this byzantine parking hierarchy called “parking privileges,” UCLA published an 84-page guide. Despite the UCLA Transportation’s […]
Submission: Jayanti Tambe must not be blamed for UCLA child care center’s issues
Although the past two years have been marred by controversy which has attracted attention from the Daily Bruin’s editorial board, UCLA Early Care and Education’s Executive Director Jayanti Tambe’s accomplishments and her deep love for children should not go unstated, and people must realize that most of the problems with ECE lay largely beyond her […]
Submission: CALPIRG’s fracking ban advocacy is part of larger sustainability goal
As any Californian knows, we’ve seen our fair share of earthquakes and water shortages. Yet we still allow fracking, a natural gas and oil extraction method that exacerbates both issues, in our state. The recent California Public Interest Research Group pledge drive to ban fracking in California opened an important conversation about the issue. Those […]
Submission: CALPIRG’s stance on fracking is misguided, unrealistic
We have all had our walks to classes interrupted by those exceptionally motivated California Public Interest Research Group volunteers. One of the group’s main goals this quarter is to ban fracking, a natural gas extraction method. Don’t get me wrong, the CALPIRG objective has merit – fracking is a very water-intensive method of natural gas […]
Letter to the Editor: ECE parent community not unified in disapproval of Jayanti Tambe
We were dismayed to read your editorial “UCLA child care center must address parents’ calls for change”. Overall the Editorial contains inaccuracies, misrepresents the UCLA Early Care and Education parent community, is unnecessarily unfair to Jayanti Tambe and contains an ominous threat of removal for center directors and several teachers. Our main rebuttal is the […]
Letter to the Editor: Political commentary needs to be culturally sensitive, mindful
We are grateful that the Daily Bruin has apologized for the offensive editorial cartoon that ran in yesterday’s edition. As individuals, and in our organizational capacities, we have repeatedly emphasized the need for collective humility – to realize when we have hurt others, to show the courage to admit error and to manifest the integrity […]