This post was updated Oct. 29 at 5:30 p.m. Nothing is more gratifying than the UCLA engineer’s walk to class. The exhilarating downhill pedal across Bruin Walk and the rite-of-passage gallop through the Mathematical-Sciences tunnel all culminate in one defining moment: Boelter Hall. Yes, the building itself is a stake in time – a landmark […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
Kristina Iliopoulos: Emphasis on exams not conducive to learning
We’ve all been there – that moment right after a midterm when you don’t really know what to do with your life anymore because there’s no possible way you can stay in college after that embarrassment. You check the syllabus to see how much of your grade the midterm was worth and – surprise – […]
Sandra Wenceslao: The UC should use sales and services revenue to increase worker wages
Seventy percent of University of California workers find it difficult to make ends meet with the wages currently given to them by the UC system, according to a new study from Occidental College. That needs to change. UC employees are persistently fighting for a pay raise. Various protests by UC employees have called to attention […]
Guillaume Kosmala: Students should vote for propositions JJJ, HHH to end homelessness in LA
The other day I biked down to Target, hoping this time I wouldn’t see the same lady I always see laying outside. I was deeply saddened to see that for the third year running, she was still sitting at the same spot. This was a reminder that the multitude of homeless individuals I recognize because […]
Aaron Julian: City officials should use traffic violations for safety, not revenue
I went to high school in the heart of Washington, D.C. and admittedly, I jaywalked many times in one of the most secure and heavily policed cities in the world. Never once did it occur to me, however, that this behavior could end up causing me struggles financially or with law enforcement elsewhere. Los Angeles […]
Chris Campbell: Mike Pence must be held accountable for role in Donald Trump’s campaign
Although last night’s presidential debate had not yet happened as I’m writing this column, I can already tell you what happened: Republican nominee Donald Trump dodged the questions he was asked and instead recited some lines taken out of a conspiracy theorist’s Mad Libs, exciting his supporters and further alienating everyone else. We can take […]
Karishma Daibee: Bruin Republicans event promotes hate, not discourse
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from fact. Last week, Bruin Republicans held an event cleverly titled “Sabine Durden: An Illegal Immigrant Killed My Child,” in which guest speaker and Donald Trump affiliate Sabine Durden spoke about how an undocumented immigrant killed her child. Instead of focusing on the drunk driving of the man […]