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Category Archives: Opinion Columns
Natalie Delgadillo: Large-scale Volunteer Day fails to provide meaningful experience
My first experience as a volunteer at UCLA involved very little volunteering and lots of awkwardly standing around.
I was supposed to be repainting fences for polo ponies at UCLA’s annual Volunteer Day, but the thing I remember most about that day is not doing much of anything at all.
Ryan Nelson: Financial literacy course should replace GE class
Many students are graduating from UCLA with a poor grasp on the skills necessary to survive in the world’s financial market. In Sunday’s Registration Issue, I recommended that financial literacy be worked into UCLA’s General Education curriculum. Among the possible options, it seems that the best way to make such a change would be to […]
Alexandra Tashman: Activism should refocus on public speech, tangible goals
Last summer, I took my politically inclined younger sister to her first protest, and suffice it to say she was less than impressed.
Natalie Delgadillo: Student government must actively encourage student input
Transparency and accessibility have been favored buzzwords of the current Undergraduate Students Association Council members since their campaigns for office last year, when candidates promised to reach out and engage with students. Despite expressing concern about these issues, council was met with student backlash this summer for not seeking enough student input on major decisions. […]
Dear reader: Daily Bruin needs your help to hear your voice
Let’s talk about you for a moment.
Refer, if you would, to the map located above this column. The vast area in blue is you – it’s the place that brings you all together, where, for one reason or another, you gravitate.
Zoey Freedman: Napolitano needs time to prove she will listen to students
University of California President Janet Napolitano hasn’t come into office yet, but she is already facing an uphill battle to prove herself to students. After toying with the idea of a vote of no confidence in Napolitano, Associated Students University of California, UC Berkeley’s undergraduate student government, passed a measure called “A Bill in Support […]