With Transfer Pride Week coming to a close, the progress within the transfer community is ever more clear. The transfer community is vast and diverse – diverse not only in ages but also in past experiences and the road taken to get to UCLA. However, there is one thing that unifies the entire transfer community, […]
Category Archives: Community
Submission: Healthy Campus Initiative works to promote wellness of UCLA community
We agree with the call to action written in your recent opinion piece supporting the development of a peer-counseling program. We’re pleased to report that a group of faculty and administrators, led by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh, has been meeting since last spring to develop such a program. Our goal is to […]
Letter to the Editor: BruinAlert should be used more consistently during campus emergencies
The Daily Bruin recently included an editorial about the underutilization of the UCLA BruinAlert Mass Notification & Advisory System. We concur with opinions expressed and suggest if the system was deployed more consistently during campus emergencies, utilization would go up. Alert and warning systems using text messages are becoming very popular. However, we and others […]
Submission: Firing of Berkeley lecturer signals need for UC worker solidarity
On Sunday, Alexander Coward blew the whistle on the shadowy practices of hiring and firing lecturers at the University of California. He issued a powerful statement after his year-to-year contract was not renewed by UC Berkeley’s mathematics department. This is not the first time Coward has thrust himself into the spotlight. Coward, who was a […]
Submission: UCLA fails to adequately support students with disabilities
I grew up in Los Angeles and always regarded UCLA as one of the best universities in the world. Even though I attended California State University, Northridge, for my bachelor’s degree, I still held UCLA in high regard. After graduating from CSUN, I pursued my master’s in education at the University of Pittsburgh. Many of […]
Submission: Awareness of black community’s history key in combatting racism
Dear Caterina, I had some thoughts about the points you made in your op-ed. This is an opinion piece and I by no means intend to devalue your opinion. The following will be my opinion as well, and while I’ll say that I disagree with you, I hope you will read it because I believe […]
Submission: UCLA must listen to, have compassion for black students’ experiences
Dear UCLA, We need to learn to listen. There was one thing that I couldn’t get out of my head after reading freshman Caterina Kachadoorian’s thoughts about the response to the “Kanye Western” party last week: We need to learn as a campus how to listen to and learn from fellow Bruins who are hurting. […]