University of California President Janet Napolitano is in quite the predicament. At the UC Board of Regents meeting this month, student protesters disrupted the regents meeting by stripping, shouting and throwing fake money to decry the tuition hike plan. Before the regents walked out on student protesters, Napolitano offhandedly said “we don’t have to listen […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
Kunal Patel: Upholding freedom of speech includes protecting unpopular ideas
The recent controversy surrounding a racist bus chant perpetrated by University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members and subsequent expulsion of two chant-leading members has reignited the debate of free speech on college campuses. Two days after the racist bus chant video was posted online, University of Oklahoma President David Boren expelled two SAE […]
Casey Kovarik: UC, state must compromise to accommodate growing applicant pool
After 11 years of continual increases in the number of applications, the University of California and the state have still not managed to figure out how to make room for everyone who deserves to be here. UC President Janet Napolitano announced last week that California resident enrollment is frozen at all UC campuses, meaning the […]
Zoey Freedman: Chancellor Block should increase availability to undergrad students
Once a quarter, every student at UCLA receives an entertaining email about Chancellor Gene Block’s student office hour. Although there are good intentions behind the idea of meeting with students personally to talk about campus issues, designating only a single hour to accommodate thousands of students is laughable. Even if a student does want to […]
Shani Shahmoon: UCLA should allow alumni free access to BruinView
College graduates are facing a drastically different job market than the one that existed when our parents went to school. Where before someone might have begun working after graduation in the same company they would one day retire in, now, it is not uncommon for students to jump from job to job throughout their 20s. […]
Kunal Patel: Students should back Napolitano in funding dispute, keep UC accessible
As the deadline to pass the California State Budget approaches in June, the high-stakes game of political chicken between University of California President Janet Napolitano and Gov. Jerry Brown is heating up. Napolitano is leveraging a tuition hike that can be entirely prevented if Brown increases funding to the UC by an additional $100 million […]
Yiwei Sun: Benefits from flipped courses far outweigh concerns
Unlike my other classes, which require me to show up nearly an hour early to secure a seat so that I don’t have to sit on the cold floor, Linguistics 1 allows me to grab a leisurely cup of coffee and take my time to load the online lecture on my laptop. Linguistics 1 is […]