Nothing is more certain for University of California students than tuition hikes. Almost every year, students watch as UC administrators and state politicians scramble to negotiate state funding to avoid raising tuition fees. And almost every time, the UC walks away with less funding than it hopes for, along with a bag of threats from […]
Category Archives: Editorials
Editorial: Ban on in-house fraternity events with alcohol must be made permanent
This post was updated Jan. 18 at 9:43 p.m. Fraternity parties are a fixture of college life. And sexual violence is a fixture of fraternity parties. Earlier this week, UCLA’s Interfraternity Council indefinitely banned in-house events with alcohol at all fraternities following an alleged sexual assault Saturday night. The perpetrator, a UCLA student, was arrested […]
Editorial: UCLA needs transparency if it wants to keep parents’ trust, support
UCLA rang in the new year by keeping up with an old tradition: angering parents who entrust the university to take care of their children. Last month, the university administration placed Norma Silva, the principal of the UCLA Lab School, which enrolls pre-K through sixth grade students and is operated by the Graduate School of […]
Editorial: Allowing lawmakers to remove regents opens UC to political pressure
When the University of California Board of Regents was created 150 years ago, legislators presciently wrote that the regents were meant to keep the UC independent of political influence. What they forgot to add in, however, was a clause to remove unfit regents – or at least hold them accountable. The American Federation of State, […]
Editorial: New dining hall policy lacks strong basis, needs to be scrapped
UCLA’s dining halls were ranked the best in the nation for two years in a row. UCLA Dining Services boasts an exquisite array of foods and drinks at its all-you-can-eat dining restaurants, and students living on the Hill are treated to a variety of hospitality services to fill their stomachs or quench their thirst. And […]
Editorial: UCLA’s handling of Skirball fire lacked foresight, clear communication
Smoky skies. Masked students. A near-deserted campus. This is what Bruins witnessed Wednesday, as a fire raged less than two miles away from campus in nearby Bel-Air. Students, faculty and staff weathered everything from power outages to ashy winds to intractable traffic as flames licked the hills by the 405 Freeway and the Getty Center, […]
Editorial: Centralized hub could better address student homelessness
Sky-high rent and Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis have helped bring the issue of housing insecurity to UCLA’s doorstep. Year after year, we hear stories of how homeless Bruins prevail against the socio-economic odds they face. Of course, UCLA offers financial aid packages to students, but for a university system that markets itself as accessible to […]