UCLA Housing Access Control has a problem. Hint: it’s not with the access part. Access Control, a UCLA Housing unit that monitors the entry of residents into certain buildings between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. by checking photo identification, reported having vacancies for nearly half its positions at the start of the quarter. While vacancies […]
Category Archives: Editorials
Editorial: Mental health service ‘fast lanes’ won’t solve problems CAPS’ understaffing created
An opaque counseling center is the last thing you would want from a university with a distinct lack of mental health resources. Turns out, that’s precisely what UCLA has. The Daily Bruin reported Nov. 16 Counseling and Psychological Services had partnered with the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science to offer additional […]
Editorial: DeVos’ Title IX policies will hinder reporting of sexual misconduct
Combating sexual misconduct on college campuses just became a hundred times harder. U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ misunderstanding of higher education has resulted in yet another attack on essential university guarantees – this time Title IX policies governing how universities handle cases of sexual violence and harassment. DeVos proposed rules earlier this month that […]
Editorial: Paul Koretz’s inflammatory comments confirm his failure to represent Westwood
For years, UCLA students lived with the fact that their Los Angeles city council member doesn’t care about their basic needs. They now also have to live with the fact that their elected representative thinks some of them are terrorists. Paul Koretz, the three-term city council member who represents City District 5, which includes Westwood, […]
Editorial: UCPath needs to pave a smoother road for University employees
Step one for creating a payroll system: make sure it works. That’s where we seemed to have lost the University of California. After four years of delays and mishaps, you would be forgiven for thinking the worst was over for the UC Payroll, Academic Personnel, Timekeeping and Human Resources. The University has touted UCPath for […]
Editorial: USAC’s lack of transparency creates dangerous precedent
“Early Wednesday morning, leaders of the undergraduate student government made a decision to deny hundreds of assembled community members basic information necessary in assessing their student government.” That’s what the Daily Bruin Editorial Board wrote in 2014 after that year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council used a secret ballot to cast a vote on a resolution […]
Editorial: University’s handling of upcoming SJP conference threatens First Amendment rights
This post was updated Nov. 13 at 2:32 a.m. UCLA is no stranger to ideologically charged campus events. Be it a talk in Ackerman Union by Ben Shapiro, a conservative commentator, or a lecture in Royce Hall by Rahm Emanuel, Chicago mayor and former poster child of the Democratic Party, administrators have always had the […]