This is a fact: you cannot meet necessary living expenses on $9 per hour, the current minimum wage in Los Angeles. This past Labor Day, the holiday that pays tribute to the labor movement that achieved social and economic improvements for workers and their families, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a plan to raise the city’s […]
Category Archives: Editorials
Editorial: ‘Yes means yes’ bill protects sexual assault survivors on campuses
This post was updated on September 4 at 12:56 a.m. Last week, the state Senate unanimously passed a bill that, if signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, will change the way some colleges and universities have to define consent. This board strongly supports the bill for its specific definition of sexual consent, the first […]
Editorial: Efforts at decriminalization of youth benefit state universities
It doesn’t make sense to arrest and cite the students you’re trying to send to college – and Los Angeles Unified School District officials are increasingly realizing that. On Tuesday, LAUSD changed its policy, no longer issuing police citations to students for minor offenses such as fighting, petty theft or possession of tobacco or alcohol. […]
Editorial: O’Bannon v. NCAA needs to extend to all student-athletes
A week ago, judge Claudia Wilken shook up the landscape of the NCAA as we know it, and college sports are ultimately better for it. Wilken’s 99-page ruling in O’Bannon v. NCAA placed an injunction on a ban against the compensation of student athletes, allowing schools to pay players up to $5,000 per year for […]
Editorial: Election Board chair should focus on long-term changes
For the first time in several years, the Undergraduate Students Association Council has appointed an Election Board chair before the start of fall quarter, as per the council’s bylaws. Shagun Kabra, the newly-appointed chair and a third-year mathematics/economics student, will have the kind of time other Election Board chairs could only dream of, with both […]
Editorial: Personal stances not a valid reason to limit powers of student regent
In times of controversy, rules, precedents and procedures exist to help navigate the murky waters of emotion and debate. That point was particularly apparent in the contested nomination, and subsequent confirmation, of Avi Oved as the University of California’s next student regent-designate. At the core of the controversy is a single question: Does Oved’s outspoken […]
Editorial: USAC Election Code should require disclosure of campaign donations
On Thursday, the University of California Student Association voted to recommend that the UC Board of Regents delay the confirmation of student regent-designate nominee Avi Oved until September. Two days earlier, students from several UC campuses participated in a two-hour emergency UCSA conference call, many expressing their distrust in Oved for not disclosing alleged contributions […]