If you’re like me, you may not know much about UCLA’s Counseling and Psychological Services, except for the rumors you’ve heard that it’s severely understaffed, making it impossible to get an appointment and a waste of time to try. It’s not CAPS’s fault. Gov. Jerry Brown is denying them the money they need. Brown recently […]
Category Archives: Opinion Columns
Abhishek Shetty: Danny Siegel should redirect his efforts to tackle housing affordability
Just five months ago, Danny Siegel rose to the office of Undergraduate Students Association Council president and made housing affordability one of the key parts of his platform. But now, as the academic year gets underway, he can’t afford to be vague on his proposals. Housing affordability is slowly becoming a major inconvenience for students […]
Guillaume Kosmala: Professors should release exams to test bank, create level playing field
UCLA is a university where a select few are granted an academic advantage based on whether or not they have joined organizations that cost hundreds of dollars a quarter, that have a national history of flagrant racism or that require already high minimum GPAs to join. But students aren’t to blame for that – lazy […]
Aaron Julian: Students who claim political awareness on social media must vote
A Bruin Walk preacher stopped me on my way home from campus to talk about his beliefs. Although I do not support the fearmongering and vindictive claims he advocated, I was impressed by his willingness to put himself on the line in a place where his beliefs are counter to the norm and met with […]
Keshav Tadimeti: Napolitano’s tirade on free speech unjustified, insensitive
In the shouting match that is democracy, if your voice is louder than someone else’s, you aren’t silencing theirs; you’re just heard better. That’s a fact Janet Napolitano doesn’t seem to understand. Napolitano, the President of the University of California, recently published an op-ed in the Boston Globe – as opposed to, say, a publication […]
Chris Campbell: Westwood Village needs to diversify businesses to become commercial destination
I’m writing the rough draft of this column in a booth at the Westwood Denny’s, my favorite restaurant of well, anywhere. But as much as I love the delicious eats and free Wi-Fi this diner offers, it’s a shame that it’s one of the few businesses open in Westwood Village past 10 p.m. By now, […]
Guillaume Kosmala: Student debt must be addressed in presidential debates
On Monday night, the first presidential debate took place. Many things were said, including the dubious claims that Donald Trump is not “braggadocious,” that the entirety of the economic recovery is due to a “big, fat, ugly bubble” and that the Democratic National Convention could have been hacked by “somebody sitting on their bed who […]