Category Archives: Opinion
Ara Shirinian: It’s time to stop being neutral about net neutrality
Right now, the future of the Internet is being debated in a federal court and almost no one is talking about it. Last year, I wrote about the Federal Communications Commission’s policies reclassifying Internet service providers (ISPs) as common carriers in accordance with Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. Though the FCC’s new […]
Submission: Students should consider service-oriented opportunities during gap year
My senior year of undergrad was a stressful time. I remember trying to decide what to do for my gap year before medical school – assuming I would get accepted on my first try. I wanted my gap-year experience to feel meaningful; something that would allow me to help in a significant way. It did […]
Intents and Purposes
Journalism is inherently opportunistic. As journalists, we hunt for stories, digest them, write them and move on. Many times, the people we interview are deconstructed into smaller, logical parts – a main source, an opposition source, etc. Despite these being real people, we compartmentalize them into cogs used to prove an argument or express a […]
Litigating Hope
Maria Alcantara paid more than $600 for the privilege of discovering she didn’t qualify for DACA. In July of 2014, the second-year legal studies and Latin American and Latino studies student at UC Santa Cruz applied for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA – President Barack Obama’s executive action protecting some young undocumented immigrants […]
Who Gets to Dream?
When most people think of undocumented immigrants, chances are they think of Donald Trump. Which makes a twisted kind of sense. The man captured the attention of an entire country when he started off his presidential campaign railing against undocumented immigrants, and has made a name for himself as a presidential candidate spouting off hateful […]
Submission: Student dissension should be carried out with respect, not hostility
After reading that the University of California Board of Regents will continue to discuss the Statement of Principles Against Intolerance at its meeting this month in San Francisco, and after hearing about anti-Semitic incidents over the past few years that have caused dissension among members of various organizations on campus, I felt the inclination to […]