If you entered UCLA as a freshman, or you currently are a freshman, imagine having to experience one of the following during the start of your UCLA career: having only one day of orientation, not living on the Hill, having to work off campus, or driving to school everyday. How many of your memorable and […]
Category Archives: Community
Submission: Charlie Hebdo vigil forges solidarity among communities
On Jan. 12, close to 70 Bruins gathered to commemorate the heinous events which took place earlier this month in France. Following the attacks, millions of people took to social media to express their thoughts, emotions and reflections. Upon hearing that 12 people were ruthlessly, systemically executed in the offices of the satirical French magazine […]
Submission: Campus approach to transfer students overly patronizing
Last year, a referendum was passed by UCLA’s undergraduate student body to add a transfer representative office to the Undergraduate Students Association Council. Additionally, in recent years advocacy for transfer students has grown, and the process for transfer students to integrate with the UCLA community has become more transparent. However, in a recent submission written […]
Submission: Transfer students deserve more representation
Over the years, the number of transfer students applying to UCLA has grown at a steady rate. However, despite the growing number of applicants to this esteemed university, quality representation for admitted transfer students has been limited. This can be seen through the lack of transfer student housing, the fact that transfer orientation lasts only […]
Submission: Deflating UC administrative bloat better than hiking tuition
On Jan. 9, Gov. Jerry Brown’s newly proposed budget for the next fiscal year disappointed University of California officials amidst a standoff over tuition increases. Gov. Brown decided to increase state general funds to the UC by $120 million, falling short of an additional $100 million demanded by UC President Janet Napolitano to stop the […]
Submission: Opposition to undergraduate diversity requirement is justified
In a recent editorial, the Daily Bruin Editorial Board condemned the actions of 59 professors who urged a revote on the College of Letters and Sciences diversity requirement proposal. This condemnation is a mischaracterization. First, the board criticizes any expansion of the vote beyond Letters and Sciences professors as illegitimate. What the Daily Bruin fails […]
Submission: Democrats’ funding plan would hurt campus diversity
The California Senate Democrats’ new funding plan is not that at all. The proposed bill claims to increase state funding by $156 million for the 2015-2016 year. The Democrats presented the bill as such even though it cuts funding to the Middle Class Scholarship program and still increases tuition by 17 percent for nonresidents. The […]