The Bruin Diversity Initiative proposes a $9.93 fee increase per quarter to fund various campus entities and student organizations, all supposedly bound by the ideal of diversity. Considering the size of the increase, which will total slightly less than $40 per year, the composition of the initiative should be examined closely. While some of the […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
Katie Shepherd: Graduate students need to increase participation in elections
UCLA’s graduate students will have the chance this week to speak out on controversial changes to the university’s in absentia policy and to approve new funding to graduate-specific resources on campus.
Megan Beck: Cap-and-trade should provide limited allowances for UC
Carbon is now a commodity. Under California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, businesses and institutions – including universities – must pay for the carbon they emit. Senate Bill 497 strives to alleviate the financial burden on the University of California and California State University by freely allocating allowances, effectively exempting both university systems from having to […]
Eitan Arom: Data needed to ensure rebenching matches reality
Under the new University of California funding scheme set to be phased in over the next six years, the idea that all undergraduates should be equally funded is integral. But it misses a central truth: that all undergraduates are, in fact, not created equal.
Natalie Delgadillo: USAC should have allowed Bruin Diversity Referendum spot on ballot
Campus climate could find its way back to the ballot this year.
Benjamin Powell: Transfer students require more counseling resources
The California community college system is at a turning point.
Ryan Nelson: Lifetime, pharmacy care caps on UC SHIP should be removed
In Oakland, the University of California Office of the President has been engaged in deliberations over a cap on health.