When I moved to Los Angeles from a tiny town in Northern California, I was eager to explore the music scene that supposedly surrounded my new home. I should have set my expectations lower. As it turns out, live music in Westwood often translates to a $20 round trip to Culver City. Our section of […]
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UCLA’s Zero Waste initiative may be too poorly executed to realize its goal on time
UCLA is determined not to waste anything – especially time. The university has set the ambitious goal of having zero waste to landfills by 2020, and is banking on its students and faculty to help contribute. The effort is part of a broader campaign by the University of California for each campus to generate less […]
UCLA could capitalize on academic potential to provide mental health instruction
This post was updated April 16 at 10:18 p.m. They say numbers tell the story. Here are a couple: About 45% of Bruins screened since January 2017 fall on some spectrum of depression or anxiety. One hundred thousand people are being studied by the university to identify the genetic and biologic factors associated with depression. […]
High rainfall levels have distracted city officials from preventing future drought
Los Angeles isn’t holding its water. In the past, the City of Angels has been known as the land of palm trees and clear skies, hardly a place where it rains for what feels like every day for a month. So when this rainfall season came around, people took note. The city received a total […]
Letter from the editor: Daily Bruin stays unified while seeking to amend Communications Board’s policies
Dear Daily Bruin staff and members of the UCLA community, I am a firm believer that journalists should be telling the news – not making it. And yet, here we are doing just that. A considerable number of Daily Bruin staff members elected to strike upon learning that our publisher, the Associated Students UCLA Communications […]
UCLA should make research more accessible for its undergraduates
UCLA is a world class research university that receives hundreds of millions in research funding every year. You can imagine the irony when students realize they still can’t find research positions here. Participating in undergraduate research is critical and allows students to develop important laboratory skills. Many South Campus majors like microbiology, immunology and molecular […]
It’s high time UCLA cultivated its cannabis-related curriculum
The California marijuana market has been set ablaze. Too bad students will only get a whiff of it. Proposition 64, passed in November 2016, legalized recreational marijuana for adults over the age of 21, effectively allowing the state to reap billions of dollars in potential revenue. It also created a tremendous new demand for labor. […]