Dear Editor, The Daily Bruin ran a front-page story April 23 headlined “UCLA community questions fairness of naming buildings after donors.” The article quoted those who questioned the naming of buildings after individuals who may not share “our values.” The accompanying text and photo used the Renée and David Kaplan Hall on the campus’ central […]
Category Archives: Opinion
University tenure clock disfavors women weighing academic ambition against family
Professors aspiring to get tenure are working against a ticking clock. For women, though, this clock ticks much louder. Faculty at UCLA typically start off as assistant professors and work within a roughly eight-year time frame to obtain tenure, or permanent employment. Every two years, they’re evaluated and have the opportunity to climb the hiring […]
Letter to the editor: UCLA hospitality facilities further university’s public service mission
Dear editor, This is a letter responding to the Opinion column titled “Mind Your Business: UCLA hotels detract funding from more pressing issues, compromise local business.” The purpose and function of UCLA facilities, like the UCLA Tiverton House, the Guest House, the Lake Arrowhead Conference Center and the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, is […]
UCLA boasts activists-in-residence to distract from on-campus inequity
UCLA asks whether activism can be taught. What it really means to ask is whether activism can be bought. UCLA Activist-in-Residence is a position put on jointly by the Asian American studies department and the Institute on Inequality and Democracy. The institute started this program in order to create a space for activists on campus […]
Editorial: Poway shooting presents another instance of nationwide gun control reform failure
Every time, it’s too close to home. Until it is your home. Last week, it was UCLA’s turn – yet again. A gunman opened fire April 28 in a Poway, California, synagogue during its final Passover celebrations. Two men and an 8-year-old girl were wounded. One woman, Lori Gilbert-Kaye, was killed when she jumped in […]
No Offense, But: The 2019 USAC election
This year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council featured the lowest voter turnout in at least the past decade, an eye-popping number of empty seats on the council table and a remarkable lack of fanfare. The Daily Bruin’s Opinion editor Keshav Tadimeti, senior staff columnist Abhishek Shetty, columnists Edgerrin Panaligan and Enming Zhang, and campus politics editor […]
Predictive policing algorithm perpetuates racial profiling by LAPD
Los Angeles Police Department officers have done such a poor job of making our streets safer that they are now relying on an algorithm to tell them how to do their jobs. A racist, culturally ignorant algorithm, that is. LAPD has a history of using and abandoning predictive policing algorithms. One of the only ones […]