It is typically best not to worry about things beyond your control. For college students, however, the dizzying cost of higher education and the financial pressure placed on students’ backs by hefty student loan packages are impossible to ignore. Students forced to take out sizable loans can only make the best of a bad situation. […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
Eitan Arom: USAC Israeli-Palestinian resolution imposes false consensus
On Tuesday night, more than 100 students crowded into the Kerckhoff Grand Salon. Many of them sat on the floor, while others stood in the back. For about two and a half hours, they took turns speaking and cheering one another on.
Alexandra Tashman: UCLA must make sexual assault education an ongoing effort
Sexual assault is a perennial issue on college campuses. Every year, college students become survivors of a crime that is preventable. Part of the reason is that consistent and mandatory sexual assault education is sorely lacking on UCLA’s campus, as at many schools. The most effective means of helping prevent sexual assault is to make […]
Kunal Patel: Community colleges should not give 4-year degrees
If a pending proposal is enacted, the University of California could soon have a new competitor in the market for bachelor’s degrees. The Baccalaureate Degree Study Group, a committee convened by the chancellor of the California Community Colleges system, is examining the viability of giving community colleges the ability to offer four-year bachelor’s degrees. Although […]
Natalie Delgadillo: Devise new UC admissions criterion to improve student diversity
Increasing diversity in light of a state ban on the use of race and ethnicity in university admissions has, for the better part of two decades, proved a difficult task at the University of California. That’s why UC Student Regent Cinthia Flores is proposing a revision to the system the UC uses to review applicants […]
Ryan Nelson: Regents should increase student input, transparency
In math class, we’re generally taught to show our work. You can’t simply skip from the problem to the solution. Otherwise, the teacher would never know if the student understood the problem, cheated or just took a lucky guess. Much like a struggling student, the UC Board of Regents, in selecting a new University of […]
Maia Ferdman: Humanities majors’ post-grad fears are unwarranted
As a global studies student with an English minor, I shudder at my prospects after graduation. Friends, family and even people I’ve just met ask me how I am going to turn my degree into something useful – in other words, how I am going to make money. A fair question, to be sure. Humanities […]