Abortion, gun control, healthcare – it sometimes seems as though no one can agree on anything nowadays. The president comes up with a plan and Congress blocks it. Congress comes up with a plan and the president blocks it. Some have called the current government the least effective in American history. The past several years […]
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Submission: EVP candidate Ria Jain has skill to refocus office’s advocacy
The Undergraduate Students Association Council External Vice President’s office has played a pivotal role in student advocacy and activism on this campus for decades. UCLA has been at the forefront of fighting for affordable education, advocating to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline and providing students with a space to lobby for issues they are passionate about. […]
Submission: MakeUCLAGreatAgain’s Shubham Goel serious about candidacy
My name is Shubham Goel and I am the founder and sole representative of UCLA’s new undergraduate student government slate MakeUCLAGreatAgain. Over the past couple weeks, I have been asked to my face if I am a joke or if I am serious. Running under a controversial campaign title, I have also received a lot […]
Letter to the Editor: AFSCME protests against Luskin Center hiring discredit UCLA efforts
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 continued its protests against UCLA’s Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center on Thursday. At this and other recent protests, AFSCME and its members have mischaracterized the staffing plan for the Luskin Center, scheduled to open in August, and we are concerned that this activity […]
Letter to the Editor: UC-Mexico Initiative not in jeopardy
Dear Editor: Thank you for your recent column drawing attention to the UC-Mexico Initiative, an important University of California program that President Janet Napolitano launched in January 2014. As you correctly pointed out, the initiative has had a profound impact on the UC community, educating the next generation of students through cultural exchange, shared activities […]
Submission: EVP candidate Ria Jain appears to exaggerate experiences
The first day I stepped foot onto campus as a newly admitted Bruin was for transfer orientation day two years ago. As my orientation day went on and on, I got to know a little bit more about my fellow orientation group members. As I spent my day listening and talking with a few other […]
Submission: Empowering Clothesline Display violated by theft
Twenty years of T-shirts. Twenty years of truth. This was how we, the co-directors of Bruin Consent Coalition, formerly 7000 in Solidarity: A Campaign Against Sexual Assault, started a blog post we released at the beginning of last week – a concise commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Clothesline Display at UCLA. This is […]