I recently read an article that was printed and plastered throughout the UCLA campus by The Bruin Standard. This campus fosters the intelligence of nearly 40,000 students and scholars – and yet here is a published work with thoughts that are rightfully entitled to be expressed, but dumbfoundingly used to suppress and oppress the voices […]
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Submission: UC lags behind competitors, must invest in graduate student support
Editor’s note: The following is an open letter from the UCLA Graduate Students Association to University of California President Janet Napolitano. Dear President Napolitano, As the organization representing over 12,000 graduate and professional students studying here at UCLA, we, the Graduate Students Association of UCLA, are writing to highlight the crisis the University of California […]
Letter to the Editor: Affirmative action assists in achieving diversity
By Paula Tavrow, Associate adjunct professor I take exception to David Cooper’s op-ed, “Race debate is misguided,” on Nov. 1. I agree with him that affirmative action fails to address one source of disparities – namely, the poor quality of schools for many minority children. However, if Cooper believes that eliminating poverty and inferior schools will […]
Submission: Refusing dialogue hinders progress in conflict resolution
By members of Hillel at UCLA, Bruins for Israel and J Street U at UCLA Imagine a conversation in which one party starts by saying, “Sure, let’s talk. Just do me a favor: Agree with my positions in advance so that we can go ahead and start.” Obviously, this makes no sense. One who expects […]
Poll: What do you think of a proposed “nap room” on campus?
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Submission: UCLA’s failure to divest harms its Palestinian students
Today marks the beginning of UCLA’s Students for Justice in Palestine’s annual Palestine Awareness Week, a series of events centered on educating students about the Palestinian struggle for justice and equality. While Students for Justice in Palestine has been hosting this event for the past eight years, this week promises to be different, and more crucial than ever. I say […]
Submission: Sexual assault prevention needs improvement
By Kate Tungusova Recently, at a campus workshop for sexual assault awareness and response hosted by the UCLA administration, which was meant to educate students on issues such as rape culture, survivor response and resources, I was exposed to a student’s confession of witnessing “white residue” at the bottom of a container for a communal […]