The Daily Bruin’s weekly opinion podcast is back once more with Opinion editor Chris Campbell and assistant Opinion editor Keshav Tadimeti. First, they talk about the grand opening of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center – the swankiest hotel at UCLA. Then, they discuss #NationalPastaDay and other marketing ploys from food companies.
Category Archives: Opinion
Editorial Cartoon: Doing my job
Editorial: Mobile app shouldn’t be pursued as the only solution without more data
Mobile apps can’t solve everything. And an undergraduate student government commission’s proposal to connect a late-night van service to students’ phones shows that technology can make problem-solving more complicated than it has to be, especially when there’s uncertainty about what the problem actually is. Two weeks ago, Sandra Rhee, the Undergraduate Students Association Council Facilities […]
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 […]
Editorial Cartoon: Trumped up
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 […]
