The principal mission of any local newspaper is to tell the stories of its community. Sometimes, though, those stories are best told by the community itself. The Daily Bruin, like any credible local media organization, offers members of the public the opportunity to respond to published content and share their viewpoints about issues related to […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
A year after Skirball, UCLA still needs to improve emergency response procedures
UCLA gave students their own version of a finals dead week by allowing them to venture to class in hazardous air conditions during the Skirball fire. More than a year later, little progress has been made to solidify a protocol for academic accommodations in emergencies. The Skirball fire broke out in late 2017 just down […]
UCLA should diversify Writing II topics to engage with STEM students
Despite popular belief, students don’t just write in Haines and Bunche halls. All UCLA students are required to take one Writing II class. These classes are designed to improve the proficiency of students’ writing skills for use throughout their academic careers. While most students only take one, students looking to pursue higher education in the […]
Elon Musk’s elitist tunnel system to bury hopes of less traffic six feet under
Imagine this: Toyota promises to build a bridge between Manhattan and Queens to help commuters, but you have to buy a Toyota to use it. Silly, right? Only a few weeks ago, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, revealed his prototype tunnel designed by the Boring Company. The tunnel is straight out […]
Bungled rollout of legal recreational marijuana weakens legitimate vendors
It’s impossible not to be confronted with broken promises and dashed expectations looking back on the first year of California’s legal recreational marijuana market. In fact, you would have to be smoking something pretty strong to see California’s efforts as anything less than a disappointment. California’s pot legalization, hailed as a giant leap forward in […]
USAC is pursuing another pointless project with revival of Spotted on Bruin Walk
You know it’s a problem when your elected officials are scrounging for ways to make themselves relevant. Especially when it involves creating anonymous forums. An anonymous forum, it turns out, might just become the calling card for UCLA’s undergraduate student government. The Campus Events Commission is reviving Spotted on Bruin Walk, an online platform developed […]
Grade inflation: UCLA needs to address the problem hidden in plain sight
It seems the persistent war of words between North and South Campus students may point to a fundamental problem in UCLA’s grading policies. Conventional wisdom holds that students seeking easy classes should enroll in the social sciences and humanities, which supposedly grant A’s at a much higher proportion than classes in the sciences. The supposed […]