The University of California isn’t very good at making friends. Over the course of a little more than a year, the UC has managed to antagonize both its teaching assistants and its service workers. Now it’s the doctors’ turn. Last week, doctors staged a strike across the UC in protest of the University’s unfair labor […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
Additional competency exams could reduce redundancy of GEs
In the never-ending struggle to balance college coursework with extracurricular activities, jobs and life in general, there comes a time when certain coursework becomes an undue and frankly unnecessary burden. And by certain coursework, I mean specific general electives, which are mandatory requirements for UCLA students to graduate. The theory behind required general electives is […]
Alexandra Tashman: Supporting UCLAyak, even passively, is immoral and illegal
Filming someone during sex without their explicit permission and then distributing the video is a crime. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. And yet, some students are not only illegally filming their classmates, but they’re spreading the videos around for other students to watch. Enter UCLAyak. UCLAyak is a Snapchat account that […]
Chloe Lew: Capstone courses could ease students into professional world
This quarter, I’m taking my capstone seminar – what I’ve always thought of as the big, grand culmination of my four-year baccalaureate degree. But when I tell my friends I’m in this class, I’m mostly met with blank faces, which you can imagine makes the news rather anti-climactic. Each of these blank faces becomes doubly […]
Yiwei Sun: UCLA must provide financial support resources to international students
Mingren Wang, a first-year business economics student from China, had to sell his house to pay for his tuition fees at UCLA. The University of California Board of Regents’ recent plan to increase tuition fees could potentially force international students like Wang to pay $1,700 more every year. This sum could be worth two months’ […]
UCLA Consent Week turnout not enough to spread awareness on campus
UCLA’s second annual Consent Week aimed to use five days to spread awareness of sexual violence and prevention, but failed to adequately expand its outreach to all affected communities on campus.
Arthur Wang: Investment in California Community Colleges would bolster economy
Education should be for students, not for shareholders. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union proposal for free community college brought that issue to the forefront of national attention – and for very good reason, since community colleges currently enroll nearly half of U.S. college students. The positive economic impact of these schools justifies increased […]