This town isn’t big enough for all of us. But that hasn’t stopped the members of Little Holmby in their fight against commonsense housing density – and also common sense. Two physicians recently announced a plan to build a 16-story residential building, known as The Agora, on Hilgard Avenue, on the east side of UCLA. […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
2019 GSA candidate endorsement: Shrinidhi Balasubramanian for vice president of academic affairs
Graduate students are at the heart of UCLA’s academics. That’s worryingly easy to forget – something graduate students themselves might forget given the university’s treatment of them. Luckily, the soon-to-be Graduate Students Association vice president of academic affairs wants to challenge that. The board endorses Shrinidhi Balasubramanian as the next vice president of academic affairs […]
2019 GSA candidate endorsement: Paul Nesterenko for vice president of internal affairs
Everyone can have ideas – but it’s a matter of implementing them. Paul Nesterenko is the only candidate running for the Graduate Students Association vice president of internal affairs seat. And needless to say, he has a lot he wants to accomplish. He is running on the Moving Forward slate first organized by current president […]
Revamping class planning process would help reduce student stress, confusion
It’s straight out of the 1990s: Websites are still poorly formatted globs of text and information is scattered across the internet. Universities are slowly moving onto the web, but finding what you need is like looking for a quarter of a needle in a haystack. Students would think this is a thing of the past. […]
UCLA’s policies and politics have made an equitable campus only a fleeting dream
A single, clenched fist thrust from a sea of white ivory. That’s the symbol of equity in higher education. It’s the sigil black students wear when they rise up to challenge an institution that has abandoned them. It’s the rallying cry of union workers clad in bright green, protesting unlivable wages under the sharp Southern […]
Common Book Program would benefit from student involvement in selection process
The first time I heard about the Common Book, I was two midterms into week six and finishing an eight-page essay. Suffice it to say, I wanted nothing to do with a novel. Unfortunately, many students will be introduced to the Common Book this way – a process which often involves promptly forgetting about the […]
Groups for inclusion of marginalized communities instead enforce exclusivity
“It’s not my responsibility to teach you, it’s your responsibility to learn.” That’s the motto boasted by many in the LGBTQ groups on campus. The problem is: Who are students expected to learn from? This is an important question many students are asking at UCLA. The Gender, Sexuality, and Society Living Learning Community on the […]