On Feb. 26, members from Fossil Free UCLA met with the UC Board of Regents’ Committee on Investments, or the COI, to present their case for fossil fuel divestment. In light of the Paris COP21 climate agreement and the recent UC coal and tar sands divestment in September, students were hopeful that they could depend […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Editorial: UCLA should offer severance package to Piterberg to protect community
The Daily Bruin editorial board calls on UCLA to ensure history professor Gabriel Piterberg does not return to his position. Piterberg has been the subject of multiple sexual harassment complaints from graduate students within his department. Yet, instead of taking appropriate disciplinary action against him, UCLA administrators quietly drafted a settlement and put the case […]
Sandra Wenceslao: Instructor evaluations need revision to avoid biased, unclear feedback
Take out your pens or laptops; it’s time for students to relieve themselves of the pains they’ve endured all quarter long. Towards the end of the quarter, the Evaluation of Instruction Program gives students a survey that asks them to share their experience of a course. Two sections within the survey ask students to rate […]
Letter to the Editor: Protesters must direct efforts toward those with power to enact change
I applaud the activism of students who demonstrated on March 2 to show their strong disagreement with the punishment that the UCLA administration has fixed in the sexual harassment case that has distressed my department, the student body and the entire campus for many months now. By the protesters taking this issue public, the most […]
Editorial Cartoon: Is there a lesser evil?
Hello.
Editorial Cartoon: Tobacco-free, alcohol-friendly campus
Exclusion of international students from JumpStart programs must end
It’s a common story: An international student pays $20 to attend the Career Center’s JumpStart session on pre-health summer programs, hoping to learn about all the available initiatives offered at UCLA and around Los Angeles. However, they are generally disappointed when they realize that all the summer enrichment programs introduced in the JumpStart session are […]