Putting on a concert is hard work, and as any rap enthusiast can tell you, it’s all about the Benjamins. Bruin Bash, a concert organized by the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Campus Events Commision, takes place in Pauley Pavilion every year during zero week’s welcome activities. The concert usually includes some big names, and undergraduates […]
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Jonathan Friedland: Selling tickets to Bruin Bash would allow more students to attend
Once I entered Pauley Pavilion for Bruin Bash, the plethora of empty seats disheartened me. What I expected to be a crowded, congested, ultra-packed venue betrayed me. Seats remained empty, despite the amped-up lineup planned for the evening. It seemed as if no one was sitting, or standing for that matter, in the number of […]
Keshav Tadimeti: UCLA must implement preemptive stringent cybersecurity measures
You would have to be a yahoo to still be using Yahoo. And this time, that’s not just because Gmail is superior. If you haven’t heard, Yahoo announced last week there was a massive security breach of its servers, resulting in hackers stealing email account information for over 500 million users. In other words, there’s […]
Blake Deal: Yelp misusing First Amendment as measure of convenience
The virtual world of the internet is once again converging with the concerns of reality. Yelp, an online review and information website, is appealing to the California Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling demanding the company to remove defamatory reviews. The appeal, if lost, could set a new legal precedent, allowing the state […]
Abhishek Shetty: Misguided Volunteer Day projects miss opportunity for real impact
Last year, when I was a freshman on Volunteer Day, we were sent to EL ARCA, a center for adults with developmental disabilities. On a sweltering morning, ten of us were handed the job of painting a fence that was about 15 feet across, while the Volunteer Day leaders circled around and nodded in approval. […]
Arman Sharif: Enrollment increases are irresponsible, hinder quality of education
This year’s incoming class will bring almost 1,000 more bodies to campus than last year’s 8,786 newly admitted freshmen and transfer students. If you think this is just another drop in the big bucket of the most populated college in California, it might be a little more unnerving to know that the University of California […]
UCLA Residential Life must publicize Living Learning Communities more
Mi mamá proudly told my extended family members I was off to study at the famous UCLA while I silently wished I could stay home to study during my first year. Coming to an institution that was not created for me, a bisexual first-generation Mexican American woman, forced me to learn lessons not typically found […]