Category Archives: Community

On May 12, Ben Powell argued in the Daily Bruin that UC graduate students are “unreasonable” to ask for raises in their salary, which the UCLA Graduate Division states as starting at $17,655 per academic year before taxes. The demand of a decent salary is substantially more reasonable than Powell’s arguments.

Most Californians take comfort in knowing that when they go to work, the state is looking out for their health and safety on the job. Unfortunately, this is not the case for workers in California’s adult film industry. Despite a May 8 submission in the Daily Bruin claiming the industry’s testing regimen is sufficient, infections […]

We are writing this submission in order to respond briefly to some of the comments Ben Powell offered in his May 12 Daily Bruin column titled “UC TAs should not expect wage increase.”

I really appreciated reading Ryan Nelson’s opinion piece, “Graduating low-income students must be a goal,” in the April 30, 2013, edition of the Daily Bruin. Graduating low-income students must be a goal of colleges and universities, especially after they have invested time and resources to admit them. Nelson also writes that “a good benchmark for […]

How do you think international students impact the UCLA campus?

Since Bike Week is coming up starting on May 13, now is a perfect time to open a campus discussion about the benefits that a complete Westwood Boulevard bike lane would bring to the UCLA community. A bike lane that extends the full length of Westwood would be the biggest step thus far toward furthering […]