UCLA, like any college, is a stressful place. Final exams, internship applications and club commitments ensure students are rigid with tension as their minds and bodies are put to the test. With so much demanded of them, university housing is a godsend to strung-out students. They don’t have to worry about shady landlords, subpar living […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
Sam Smoot: GOP’s weaponization of Supreme Court will hurt everyday Americans
With a trade war on the horizon and thousands of immigrant children still separated from their families, it’s easy to miss the climax of what is being called one of the most influential labor cases of the last half-century. It’s even easier to miss its troubling political undertones. The Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling […]
William Bleveans: Students’ gender-specific subletting advertisements violate fair housing acts
Although Facebook, Inc., has received its fair share of scrutiny recently, the behavior of UCLA students on the platform demands attention as well. Around the end of every school year, dozens of UCLA students post in a Facebook page titled “UCLA Sublets/Apartments” to sublease their apartments to their peers staying in Westwood for the summer. […]
Clea Wurster: LA shouldn’t let river revitalization project fall prey to gentrification
As summer nears, the Los Angeles River Revitalization project is making quite the splash – monopolizing news coverage and maybe even hiking up Angelenos’ home prices. The LA River Revitalization project is concentrated in one area, called the G2 parcel, which the city purchased in 2016. The G2 parcel covers an 11-mile strip of the […]
Learning faith in the storm of life -30-
My name is a celebration of the freedom my parents, and especially my mom, felt living in America. In the long list of people I want to celebrate, they are first. She was 29 and had been living in the United States six years when I was born. People often say Filipinos are predisposed to […]
Countless hours at The Bruin shaped me and my career path -30-
Westwood became my second home the summer I became city editor. I would endure a two-hour commute from my home in South Los Angeles several times a week to help with production on campus, to look for stories by meeting business owners and to cover community meetings. The cherry on top was covering LA’s Mobility […]
Pushing out of my comfort zone and making memories for 20 years from today -30-
I’ve relied on the Daily Bruin so much in the past four years that I needed it to teach me one last thing: how to write this column. I asked my sister and I asked my friends, but ultimately it was Gail who gave me the advice I needed (because, well, she’s an editor): “Write […]