To any student who pays attention to campus politics, the name John Joanino is probably a familiar one. Joanino ended his term as undergraduate student government president last month, rounding out a year as the school’s most prominent student official. The names Joel Ontiveros, Precious Elam, Adam Swart and Jordan Wong are likely less familiar. […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
Julia McCarthy: L.A. Metro needs to find ways to cover costs without raising fares
For UCLA students living on the Hill, the cost of getting to class in the morning is a 15-minute walk from the dorms and maybe skipping breakfast. For others, it’s $150 a year and an hour-and-a-half bus ride every day. Nonetheless, the Los Angeles Metro system is still the most affordable option for many student […]
Chloe Lew: ASUCLA must repair customer loyalty with students, faculty
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for more information. The relationship between the Associated Students UCLA textbook store and the majority of its student customers has hit a rough patch. The prices ask for more than we are ready to give. We […]
Eitan Arom: Judicial Board fails to set precedent for fair elections
The Daily Bruin does its best to write the news, and not to make the news. But The Bruin is not just a newspaper; it’s UCLA’s newspaper of record – and that means it also acts as a sort of interest group on behalf of free speech and free press on campus. That was the […]
Alexandra Tashman: Isla Vista shooting reinforces need to reflect on cultural misogyny
On Friday, a student at Santa Barbara City College went on a shooting rampage, targeting women throughout Isla Vista and leaving seven dead. This tragedy, like so many other shootings our nation witnesses, was horrifying, senseless and disturbing. For University of California students, however, it was particularly devastating. Six of our peers were taken from […]
Charley Guptill: Cru’s Safe Rides program should avoid religious, service overlap
The post-party nighttime trek from the apartments to Hilgard Avenue is treacherous. It’s cold, difficult to navigate in heels and kind of scary. Safe Rides, a service offered by Cru, an on-campus Christian organization, aims to eliminate the harrowing journey for homeward-bound women on Thursday nights. But while the leaders in Cru who oversee and […]
Ryan Nelson: Benefits of hiring undergrad TAs outweigh costs
In physics, it’s understood that for every force acting on an object, that object is sending back a force of equal and opposite magnitude. But if you ask Joseph Rudnick, the dean of the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences and a professor of physics himself, this property of motion can apply to other areas as […]