It’s often said that a small, dedicated group of people can make a large impact. Last week’s protest by 10 members of Bruin Republicans was not one of those times. The organization staged a protest last week against UCLA’s new general education requirement, which would have students take a course about inequalities based on race, […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
Kunal Patel: Reducing administrative pay will not effectively cut UC costs
For the last few months leading up to Wednesday’s University of California Board of Regents meeting, the state has persistently asked that the UC open up its books and listen to state suggestions as a way to reduce its cost structure. And as an olive branch of good faith to Gov. Jerry Brown, the Board […]
Ryan Nelson: UCLA needs to take initiative against overfishing
So we’ve officially eaten ourselves sick. That’s according to a study published this month by Science Magazine, which posits that human beings have essentially overfished ourselves to the brink, and soon will suffer the consequences: a massive extinction of marine life that will eventually cause a decreased food supply, less biological diversity and a far […]
Aram Ghoogasian: USAC must be ethically consistent in Turkey divestment vote
One hundred years ago, my great-grandfather, a 9-year-old at the time, faced extermination at the hands of the Ottoman Empire because of his ethnicity. Today, the Republic of Turkey categorically denies that its predecessor state committed genocide against the Armenian people. Denial of genocide itself has been called the final stage of genocide. This state-sanctioned […]
Natalie Delgadillo: State needs to accept responsibility, contribute to UCRP
For 20 years, the University of California and the state legislature folded their hands in their lap and slowly allowed one of the major financial structures of the University to sink into insolvency. Rather incomprehensibly, both stopped all contributions to the University of California Retirement Plan in 1990, driving the UC’s vast pension plan, which […]
Travis Fife: Additional funds necessary to close projected degree gap in California
Degrees are the bridge to California’s future, but we are starting to run out of planks. According to the Public Policy Institute of California, the state will need at least one million more college degree holders than currently projected by 2025. These findings were supported by another group, California Competes, which found California will need […]
Chloe Lew: Nonresident students should not be used as financial crutches for UC
As a native Californian, I’ve always felt shamelessly privileged with the best – the beautiful West Coast, eternal sunshine, celebrity neighbors and about $23,000 less in tuition fees at the University of California than nonresidents. But that last privilege of a less costly tuition is now being compromised: for the last six years, Californians have […]