Imagine, for a moment, a seminar convened by some innocuously named student group: Bruins for Saving the Planet, or some-such. Imagine that at the front of the hall, speaking as guests and experts, are the CEOs of Exxon, BP and Chevron. Imagine that they give exactly the lecture one would expect: blithely dismissing the academic […]
Category Archives: Community
Submission: EVP office’s Bruin Defenders program will further student advocacy
UCLA is home to an impressive number of student organizations with diverse interests, and each student organization should have opportunities to advocate for its interests and passions in order to bring about tangible change for its communities and the UCLA student body at large. Traditionally, past years’ travel grants given by the Office of the […]
Submission: Disregard of AP, IB units during enrollment promotes equity
It is that time of the quarter when UCLA students have to plan out their schedule for the next term, wake up to an unfortunately early pass time and deal with the anxiety of getting the classes we want. But now some – emphasis on some – students have to deal with a different class […]
Letter to the Editor: AP, IB credit fosters fair class grouping for under-resourced schools
The Daily Bruin article “AP, IB credit no longer to be factored in enrollment priority at UCLA,” published on Oct. 26, 2015, has prompted many questions that are important to address. While UCLA will no longer consider AP or IB credit to determine enrollment appointments, AP or IB courses will continue to be […]
Submission: Palestinians are dying too
Last week, Students for Justice in Palestine held a demonstration on the UCLA campus as part of the International Day of Action for Palestine, an annual event held on college campuses around the world. An article in the Daily Bruin covered the story with quotes from both SJP organizers and Bruins for Israel organizers in […]
Submission: UCLA must address violence against women in light of student’s death
We, the undersigned graduate students, faculty fellows and lecturers of the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, wish to express our sadness after learning of the death of Andrea DelVesco. Andrea was a fellow member of the Bruin community and she was also our student. As teachers we have the precious opportunity to get to […]
Mental health at the University of California – fast facts
University of California psychological counseling centers served 33,164 patients in the 2014-2015 fiscal year. Of those patients, 6,228 were at UCLA. About 5 percent of all UC students were seen for either crisis, urgent or triage same-day appointments between July 1, 2014 and Feb. 28, 2015. In 2014, 23 percent more students used UCLA’s Counseling […]