Everyone can have ideas – but it’s a matter of implementing them. Paul Nesterenko is the only candidate running for the Graduate Students Association vice president of internal affairs seat. And needless to say, he has a lot he wants to accomplish. He is running on the Moving Forward slate first organized by current president […]
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2019 GSA candidate endorsement: JP Santos for vice president of external affairs
The North and South Campus divide isn’t just an undergraduate phenomenon – it rocks the Graduate Students Association too. In a big way, actually. Student participation in the association from the Court of Sciences is beyond dismal – that title is already granted to the abysmal turnout and engagement GSA has gotten in recent years. […]
2019 GSA candidate endorsement: Zak Fisher for president
An untenable housing balloon. An administration intent on raising student fees. A counseling center with precipitous staff turnover. A campus bereft of child care facilities for most student parents. UCLA is lacking in many ways. And Zak Fisher, the apparent dark horse presidential candidate for the Graduate Students Association, is intent on changing that. The […]
Editorial: UCLA’s stonewalling of records requests toes line of illegality
UCLA is in the crosshairs of yet another lawsuit – something it could have avoided if only it had known the meaning of the word “promptly.” The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit that advocates for free speech rights at colleges, filed a lawsuit in March against UCLA to force it to comply […]
Revamping class planning process would help reduce student stress, confusion
It’s straight out of the 1990s: Websites are still poorly formatted globs of text and information is scattered across the internet. Universities are slowly moving onto the web, but finding what you need is like looking for a quarter of a needle in a haystack. Students would think this is a thing of the past. […]
Whose Campus?
A single, clenched fist thrust from a sea of white ivory. That’s the symbol of equity in higher education. It’s the sigil black students wear when they rise up to challenge an institution that has abandoned them. It’s the rallying cry of union workers clad in bright green, protesting unlivable wages under the sharp Southern […]
UCLA’s policies and politics have made an equitable campus only a fleeting dream
A single, clenched fist thrust from a sea of white ivory. That’s the symbol of equity in higher education. It’s the sigil black students wear when they rise up to challenge an institution that has abandoned them. It’s the rallying cry of union workers clad in bright green, protesting unlivable wages under the sharp Southern […]