What was meant to help students pay for textbooks has now turned into something that barely helps students buy a third of one. The Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Financial Supports Commission is offering 40 scholarships worth $50 each for this quarter. The scholarships began in 2008 as a way to help students pay for textbooks, […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
UCLA Transportation’s inattentive investments leave plenty of room for improvement
UCLA’s transportation system works just as well as the Los Angeles Rams’ offense did Sunday in the Super Bowl: It doesn’t. UCLA’s transportation scene has slowly been improving over the years, adding more variety to the fray. Just two years ago marked the beginning of the electric scooter era, and now there are more ways […]
Late resident assistant application impedes student search for housing
Nothing describes Westwood better than its “Hunger Games” of a housing market. And nobody knows the fight for security better than UCLA’s resident assistant applicants, who are forced to fight for a place to live. The RA application for the 2019-2020 school year was due Jan. 4, before the start of winter quarter classes. After […]
Open stores in Westwood are great, but open spaces for students are better
Picture this: You’re walking through Westwood on a nice, sunny Saturday afternoon. You wander onto Broxton Avenue, seeing an array of storefronts and people. You decide to treat yourself to a warm, cinnamon-sugar cookie from Diddy Riese, and you step outside, eager to enjoy its sugary sweetness while feeling one with the community. You look […]
Students don’t know enough about e-cigarettes. UCLA should fix that.
We’ve all been traumatized from a young age by the disturbing anti-smoking commercials showing images of diseased lungs and former smokers using a voice box. By the time we were old enough to buy cigarettes, we understood they were bad for us. But this was the early 2000s, and e-cigarettes hadn’t become popular. Fast forward […]
UCSD chancellor’s renown shouldn’t affect the investigation into his bullying
One man’s success is another man’s failure – or in the University of California, San Diego’s case, potentially more than seven people’s threatened livelihoods. Oh, and that one man might just be the chancellor. The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this month that Pradeep Khosla, UCSD’s chancellor, may be under investigation by the UC Office […]
California’s multistep marijuana permit process rightly impedes weed rollout
One year ago, California stoners and casual marijuana users alike expected to have a bustling legal recreational weed market by now. Contrary to popular belief, though, the deal didn’t make the state into a forest of weed by 2019. While the state government expected around 6,000 legal recreational dispensaries at this point, only 547 have […]