The University of California prides itself as one of the largest employers in the state. But reports of the Board of Regents’ lavish spending and of the administration gutting employee benefits makes it clear the UC has a faulty moral compass. The most recent victims: new mothers. Last week, several UCLA employees told The Bruin […]
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Submission: The 2017-18 FSC will focus on both programming and advocacy
When I ran for Undergraduate Students Association Council Financial Supports commissioner this year, I promised to expand the commission by taking it in a new direction, one that engages in both programming and advocacy. For the past six years, the Financial Supports Commission has successfully sought to address issues of financial concern to the student […]
Jonathan Friedland: Fewer stops would increase Santa Monica Big Blue Bus ridership
Taking the bus to Santa Monica from UCLA can take upward of 45 minutes, not including the walk to the Westwood bus stop. When students have the option of saving time while paying slightly more for an UberPool, it’s no wonder Santa Monica Big Blue Bus ridership has dropped 12 percent in the last fiscal […]
Scott Bays: CSO van service can increase publicity through direct link on MyUCLA
UCLA students have “a safe means of transportation around campus during the evening hours.” They probably don’t know about it, though. The Community Service Officer Evening Van Service is a free ride service that provides UCLA students a safe way to get to the Hill and Westwood apartments between 6 and 11 p.m. Students just […]
Submission: Armenian Students’ Association denounces hosting of The Young Turks
The Bruin Political Union and Campus Events Commission hosted POLITIFEST, a political discussion event, on campus May 22. It featured online commentary outlet The Young Turks’ Ana Kasparian along with several other students groups including Bruin Democrats, Bruins Elect, Bruin Libertarians, Bruin Republicans, the California Public Interest Research Group, Young Progressives Demanding Action and the […]
Arman Sharif: UC must assemble task force to interpret disaggregated ethnicity data
Campus communities that felt invisible in the past are finally seeing some change in how university data represents them. The University of California Information Center released enrollment and graduation data in April disaggregated by ethnicity. This data includes enrollment statistics for individual ethnicities, like Vietnamese or Armenian, as opposed to only reporting information for the […]
Jacqueline Alvarez: UCLA must provide lecturers with same pay, same benefits as professors
The University of California is known to provide a world-class education to its students. Its lecturers, however, get little in return for holding up the university system’s awe-inspiring reputation. Lecturers, or temporary instructors, have been thrown around by the UC for quite some time. They are usually hired to teach one course per quarter, and […]