California rang in the new year by opening the world’s largest marijuana economy. Too bad the only people getting high off the market will be those who can afford to navigate the botched patchwork of regulations and large fees the state government has in store for them. In 2016, California voters overwhelmingly chose to legalize […]
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Abhishek Shetty: Ackerman’s aesthetic renovations should not be priority given projected losses
Amid million-dollar losses, increasing labor costs and faltering book sales, you wouldn’t expect Associated Students UCLA to be spending money on renovating bathroom tiles to aesthetically match the outside flooring. But that’s exactly what the association has planned in the future. ASUCLA announced at the beginning of fall quarter that it expected its Services and […]
Mariah Furtek: UCLA needs to consider programs to help food-insecure students
While some Bruins will spend the weeks after the holidays doing extra sets of crunches in the hopes of getting their jeans to fit again after some scrumptious, festive food, other students will spend their time crunching numbers to see how they’ll afford their next meal. This lack of guaranteed access to sufficient nutritious food, […]
Scott Bays: Bike share program must offer new incentives, improve campaign strategy
John F. Kennedy once mused,“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.” Evidently, many Bruins agree. UCLA Transportation launched its Bruin Bike Share program in October to allow the UCLA community to rent bikes for annual, monthly or single-time fees. The service requires riders to create an account with UCLA Transportation to unlock […]
Sandra Wenceslao: UCLA should create multiyear financial aid program to lower student stress
Excitement, cheers, tears of joy. Maybe even some coherent sentences. These are typically prospective students’ initial reactions to finding out they’ve been accepted to UCLA. But reality kicks in later, when these students have to figure out how to pay tuition and housing costs, and when they must work up the courage to open their […]
Ankita Nair: Graduate students need financial support from UCLA if tax bill passes
Graduate students at UCLA might have to pay taxes on money they don’t make. The United States House of Representatives passed a tax bill Nov. 16 aimed at reforming the tax code system. Among the bill’s changes is the repeal of Section 117(d)(5), a provision that allows graduate students to not pay taxes on their […]
Selby Kia: Community Programs Office should make test bank more user-friendly
Now that the turkey mania has settled and finals are on the horizon, many UCLA students will find themselves at the Community Programs Office test bank in the coming week, waiting in line and frantically trying to operate a mouse that resembles an eight ball. UCLA’s test bank, which is located in the Student Activities […]