There’s a scene in Good Will Hunting in which Matt Damon’s character challenges a Harvard Law student, saying he is paying $50,000 per year for what he could get for $1.50 in library fees.
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
_Maia Ferdman: UCLA students should participate in Westwood Neighborhood Council_
Living in California during the general election may make UCLA students feel ignored or unimportant in the political arena. Presidential campaigns, which generally focus on swing states, may seem too distant to justify our civic engagement.
_Ryland Lu: L.A. needs to repair streets, not spend more on new projects_
Rarely do campaign smear tactics reveal anything substantive about what goes on in one’s neighborhood.
_Eitan Arom: Students can upset media’s pull over politics with technology_
During Wednesday night’s presidential debate, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney inspired the country by bridging the partisan divide to say, “Shut up, Jim Lehrer.”
_Maia Ferdman: Students must actively seek truth in debate_
With the first presidential debate complete, the election season has reached its home stretch. Yet clouds of fancy political advertising, highly coordinated campaign speeches and blips of political rhetoric still linger in the air like bad Los Angeles smog.
Kunal Patel: Recent cut prevents California NanoSystems Institute from continuing vital outreach programs
The California NanoSystems Institute is losing millions from its budget ““ and unfortunately, in the aftermath of this cut, the research facility’s funding model can no longer support most of its valuable outreach programs within the Los Angeles community.
_Ramsey Ugarte: Including Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson in the debates would broaden the discourse_
When UCLA students tune into the presidential debates tonight, there will be a podium and speaker missing from that brightly lit stage ““ the presidential candidate running on the Libertarian ballot, two-time New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson.