Category Archives: Opinion

High rainfall levels have distracted city officials from preventing future drought

Los Angeles isn’t holding its water. In the past, the City of Angels has been known as the land of palm trees and clear skies, hardly a place where it rains for what feels like every day for a month. So when this rainfall season came around, people took note. The city received a total […]

Letter from the editor: Daily Bruin stays unified while seeking to amend Communications Board’s policies

Dear Daily Bruin staff and members of the UCLA community, I am a firm believer that journalists should be telling the news – not making it. And yet, here we are doing just that. A considerable number of Daily Bruin staff members elected to strike upon learning that our publisher, the Associated Students UCLA Communications […]

Editorial: UCLA has lost integrity failing to hold officials involved in bribery accountable

Money buys you a lot of things at UCLA – lately even your integrity. The college admissions scandal has refused to wash away from the news cycle. A sweeping federal indictment last month showed us how ultrarich parents and celebrities were able to pay up to half a million dollars to falsify their children’s athletics […]

UCLA should make research more accessible for its undergraduates

UCLA is a world class research university that receives hundreds of millions in research funding every year. You can imagine the irony when students realize they still can’t find research positions here. Participating in undergraduate research is critical and allows students to develop important laboratory skills. Many South Campus majors like microbiology, immunology and molecular […]