The Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars is supposed to be a haven for international students as they navigate a new country and culture, miles away from their friends, family and home. Ironically, the center is perhaps the campus organization that most makes international students feel unwelcome and ostracized. The Dashew Center is responsible […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
CAE must clarify guidelines to accommodate students with eating disorders
It’s 10 p.m., Thursday night, and your assignment is due in two hours. But those two pieces of sourdough bread you ate with dinner haunt your thoughts. After you had one piece, you couldn’t stop yourself from having a second. If you squeeze in a nine-mile run now, you will only have 30 minutes to […]
For students struggling with convoluted code, PIC Lab’s feeble efforts fall short
Programming experience is quickly becoming a requirement for students in the College of Letters and Science to get internships and jobs. If you haven’t had prior coding experience though, brace yourself for a world of pain. Students in the college often look into taking Program in Computing courses to satisfy major requirements or prepare for […]
Stop the clock on daylight saving time to reduce health, safety risks
UCLA’s official motto “Fiat Lux” means “let there be light.” But come Election Day, Californians will have the power to decide when there should be light in the day. Daylight saving time was first adopted in the United States to save energy and electricity during World War I by maximizing daylight during working hours in […]
Democratic Party won’t win over voters until its leaders actually represent them
This post was updated Nov. 5 at 9:27 a.m. A blue tent in a far-off desert. That’s the American political party that claims to represent me. I’ve lived in this country my entire life. I hold progressive opinions and stand for equity and inclusivity. I would have marched for women and for science if I […]
Liberals’ unrealizable free-college plans will only worsen political discourse
No issue has proved more effective in getting college students to the polls than the rising cost of tuition. It is doubtful, however, the issue’s prominence will have improved our political discourse after the dust has settled from the midterm elections. Promises to subsidize tuition have cropped up in the campaign rhetoric of prominent democratic […]
Inadequate advertising and value result in lack of hype for meal swipe coupons
Dorm coupons are here to save the day and your appetite. If you consider $3.45 a saving, that is. Students with a UCLA Dining Services meal plan have the option to exchange a meal swipe for a meal coupon that can be used at various on-campus restaurants through the Meal Numeration Coupon Program. It’s not […]