You would be hard-pressed to find a single UCLA student who doesn’t feel that their rent is too high. It’s no secret that renting in Los Angeles is ridiculously expensive, with the median rent for a two-bedroom apartment currently sitting at around $3,000. In Westwood, that number goes up to $4,200. Combine this fact with […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
Jacqueline Alvarez: Gentrification of LA detrimental to lower-income population
Stadiums, art museums, high-end restaurants, luxurious condos – the telltale signs of gentrification. Gentrification begins when wealthy individuals – gentrifiers – move into low-income neighborhoods and begin to invest in those areas for profit. The increased property values result in higher rent prices, which in turn force poorer residents out of the neighborhood. It’s become […]
Aaron Julian: Paul Koretz’s leadership needs to be more dynamic in final term
Los Angeles is changing now faster than ever, with new businesses, residents, neighborhoods, roads and other infrastructure. But with great changes come great challenges, and the city is already getting a good dose of problems. Westwood lies within City Council District 5, which is no stranger to tensions over development or traffic jams on freeways […]
Abhishek Shetty: AB-1887 travel ban should exempt academic pursuits
A UCLA professor is on the brink of finishing a seminal paper, but needs to meet one last time with a professor from the University of Kansas. But California won’t let him go, just so they can send a message to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback. Last September, the California state legislature passed Assembly Bill 1887, […]
Clea Wurster: Study abroad program must make health care information more accessible
Joe Bruin is in Argentina with the flu, which is rendering him incapable of wandering the streets of Buenos Aires to find a doctor in a language he has a hard time grasping. Luckily, he attended an orientation at the beginning of his UCLA study abroad program, but can’t find information about healthcare now that […]
Lydiette De Jesus: Departments must meet student demand, expand classes for minors
Nothing is more stressful than seeing the class you need to graduate fill up, with no waiting list in sight. That’s the case with seniors vying for the Global Health 100: “Global Health and Development” next quarter. The global health minor, created in fall 2015, requires the class as one of its mandatory upper-division core […]
Sandra Wenceslao: UCLA should add education major for undergraduate students
The newness of reading and counting in kindergarten brought my 5-year-old self a sense of excitement that only a classroom setting was able to bring forth. But over the years, my excitement slowly dissipated as math textbooks and never-ending novels piled up. However, higher education allowed my excitement to flare up once again. I am […]