Black students at UCLA were greeted with several True Bruin Welcomes last week, and some were truer than others. Congratulation and condemnation coalesced last week when the Black Bruin Welcome Week collided with Sigma Phi Epsilon and Alpha Phi’s “Kanye Western” party, which treated black culture as accessory and reminded black students that some members of the […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
Julia McCarthy: UCLA must push for survey to gauge attitudes toward sexual assault
Statistics matter. Statistics keep us informed. Statistics allow me to go swimming in the ocean knowing that I only have a roughly one in two to three million chance of getting killed by a shark. But when statistics don’t accurately paint the full picture of a problem, they can be misleading, allowing a community to […]
Aram Ghoogasian: Social history education, textbook reform need to start before college
There is perhaps no greater buzzword on college campuses than “diversity.” At UCLA, students often talk about the importance of a diversified curriculum, especially in the social sciences, and the impact it could have on the student population. The push to pass the diversity requirement tells us as much. The diversity requirement was a victory […]
Shani Shahmoon: Peer support network would alleviate demand for counseling services
The transition into college is difficult for most, if not all, students. It can be harder though when you have no one to talk to. UCLA’s Counseling and Psychological Services is the main resource students have in respect to mental health services. Students who already have mental health issues can use CAPS as a way […]
Casey Kovarik: LA should utilize UCLA’s resources to improve environmental standards
When compared to the city in which it resides, UCLA is a heaven for environmentally friendly construction. But with a little bit of collaboration we can use the knowledge from one of the best research universities in the world to help improve its community as well. Researchers from the California Center for Sustainable Communities at […]
Yiwei Sun: Class enrollment system should better account for substitute credit
Since summer, I have made phone calls, written emails and frequently commuted from my apartment to campus trying to enroll in Life Sciences 2: “Cells, Tissues, and Organs.” Signing up for a class shouldn’t be this difficult. The cause is entirely procedural. At UCLA, many students like me have units earned outside – including from […]
Kevin Truong: Offensive statements should not be shut down, but start conversations
Students at Wesleyan University, the prototypical liberal arts college tucked away in a quaint small town, are raging against their student newspaper, sending angry letters and calling for mass boycotts. In the op-ed published in The Wesleyan Argus, Bryan Stascavage bashed the Black Lives Matter movement for creating an environment where violence against police is […]