Not all swipes are created equal. One meal plan swipe can provide you with an all-you-can-eat buffet complete with an array of entrees, ice cream, various pastries and drinks. Or it could buy you a yogurt parfait. Freshmen are often left perplexed by the fact that items like smoothies and ice cream cones at Bruin […]
Category Archives: Editorials
Editorial: UC must divest from fossil fuels to prove environmental consciousness
The University of California Board of Regents announced the sale of $200 million worth of its investments in coal and oil sands companies on Sept. 9, continuing the board’s trend of following environmental conscience only when backed by business acumen. Activists hailed the move as a positive step in restructuring the University’s finances toward a […]
Editorial: UCLA must provide parking for growing student, faculty population
UCLA has cut the number of available student parking permits this fall by hundreds, leaving nearly 1,000 students on the waitlist hoping to be able to drive to class. Those on the waitlist – many of them transfer or nontraditional students – have resorted to frantic searches for spots in Westwood, or have had to […]
Editorial: LA must apologize to Special Olympics athletes, rethink hosting plans
The 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games arrived in Los Angeles this weekend, with plenty of fanfare welcoming the 6,500 athletes and representatives from 165 different countries. While the Opening Ceremony – which included appearances by the likes of Michelle Obama and Justin Bieber – ran without incident, it was a much different story just […]
Editorial: USAC councilmembers’ sudden stipend increase unfair to students
Two years ago, the Undergraduate Students Association Council passed a bylaw amendment officially tying its stipends to the minimum wage, a move that was designed primarily to provide students with financial hardships the ability to apply to and serve at the council table. Now, however, increased USAC stipends are coming at the cost of an […]
Editorial: Charleston shooting forces students to look at on-campus racism
In 1963, the Ku Klux Klan detonated a bomb in a church in Birmingham, Ala., killing four black girls. The attack was a national tragedy that held a mirror up to America, revealing an ugly truth that spurred public support for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 less than a year later. […]
Editorial: UCLA should take responsibility for natural disaster preparedness
“San Andreas” came crashing into theaters last week as a multimillion dollar PSA of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s questionable acting skills and how woefully unprepared we are for a catastrophic temblor, even on UCLA’s campus. And while the images in “San Andreas” of collapsing skyscrapers and a tsunami smashing into the Golden Gate Bridge are […]