The UCLA student body wasn’t “fired up” to vote for the candidates on this year’s ambitiously named new slate. FIRED UP!, a slate that formed in this year’s election cycle, did not win even one of the six seats it contested. In fact, the slate’s candidates were eliminated in the first round of every three-way […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
Ryan Nelson: Legislative crowdsourcing a promising medium for lobbying groups
Hell hath no fury like an anonymous Internet commenter. It seems that every article and video on the Internet, no matter how benign or innocent, eventually ends up in some bizarre mix of strange arguments and offensive language. You don’t have to go any farther than UCLA to see the vitriol; even this week we’ve […]
Eitan Arom: In search of higher ed funding, oil tax bill a dead end
The oil tax making its way through various committees in the California State Senate won’t raise gas prices at the pump. It won’t destroy the California oil industry, the nation’s fourth largest. But it also won’t pass. To begin with, Democrats no longer hold the two-thirds majority in the state Senate needed to pass tax bills. Besides, […]
Travis Fife: UCLA must be consistent in applying principles to donors
There was at least one face missing in the crowd as the Los Angeles Clippers blew out the second-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday. That face was Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Sterling missed the game because last week, the NBA joined a host of organizations cutting ties with Sterling by banning him for life from […]
Natalie Delgadillo: Sparring over election calendar reveals split council
Last Tuesday’s undergraduate student government meeting had all the trappings of a workday at the United States Congress.
Tyson Ni: UCLA should consider experimenting with massive open online courses
UCLA has been toeing the waters of online education. But now is the time to go ankle-deep. Within the University of California system, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine and UC San Diego already collaborate with independent online education providers to deliver a diverse selection of courses to anyone with an Internet connection. UCLA already hosts similar […]
Eitan Arom: UCLA relations with POM Wonderful, donors overstep bounds
This is a tale of two empires. One is the UCLA Health System, a sprawling fiefdom of medical services flying the UCLA standard at locations from Malibu to Torrance. It’s headed by President David Feinberg, deemed by LA Weekly as “UCLA’s millionaire doctor.” The second is the food-and-drink enterprise owned by Stewart and Lynda Resnick, […]