Aspiring entrepreneurs beware: Don’t bother coming to UCLA as an undergraduate if you want a business degree. UCLA boasts a world-renowned business and management school and recently secured the title of “No. 1 public university.” But despite what these accolades might suggest, UCLA doesn’t offer a business major. The only semblance of an undergraduate education […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
Selby Kia: Absolute grade scale could curb bell curve’s detrimental effects
At UCLA, for whom the bell curve tolls depends on the professor and not much else. The bell curve, a statistical measure of grading, assesses students’ academic performance relative to other students in the class. This method of grading involves distributing grades along a bell-shaped curve, ensuring a small, top percentage of students get A’s, […]
William Zou: UCLA Housing could improve move-in, move-out waste disposal systems
UCLA is known for its campuswide commitment to sustainability and waste management. But the volume of garbage left behind in the hallways of student dorms and apartments at the end of the year counters that message. The end of an academic year is usually accompanied by a blissful sense of relief that summer has arrived. […]
Avvalzameer Bhatia: The Dashew Center should make its resources better known
The Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars can be called a one-stop shop for everything an international student needs to thrive at UCLA. Unfortunately, it is a one-stop shop that doesn’t know how to advertise its products. The Dashew Center aims to cater to the needs of international students by offering resources such as […]
Mariah Furtek: Quarterly course reviews should be made public to improve forum
Think of Bruinwalk.com, UCLA students’ preferred platform for reviewing classes and instructors, like Yelp, and the class you’re thinking of taking as an overpriced California burrito. When enrollment passes arrive and you’re getting hungry, you need to find a restaurant. The places with rave reviews have inconvenient, long waits to get a table, but you […]
Keshav Tadimeti: UC tuition increase will fund faculty pensions, but with good reason
Students, I hate to break it to you, but the University of California could raise tuition in 2018 to pay for people’s retirement benefits. You might want to hold off on the protest signs, though. The Los Angeles Times published a story in late September about how a good chunk of new money from the […]
Abhishek Shetty: USAC must update online minutes, guidelines to maintain transparency
Maintaining an up-to-date website and uploading meeting documents regularly are simple and obvious steps any student government should follow. But unfortunately, UCLA’s undergraduate student government has treated them as an afterthought for years. Late last month, Vivy Li, the Undergraduate Students Association Council internal vice president, prompted the council to revisit the terms of USAC […]