Reasons aside, I was recently advised to consider Counseling and Psychological Services with the assurance that going there didn’t mean that I was on the verge of a mental breakdown. But it could have. And it has. And when that happened, CAPS did its best to help me re-orient myself before referring me to a […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Mental health at the University of California – fast facts
University of California psychological counseling centers served 33,164 patients in the 2014-2015 fiscal year. Of those patients, 6,228 were at UCLA. About 5 percent of all UC students were seen for either crisis, urgent or triage same-day appointments between July 1, 2014 and Feb. 28, 2015. In 2014, 23 percent more students used UCLA’s Counseling […]
Submission: Support for transfers should not end after Transfer Pride Week
With Transfer Pride Week coming to a close, the progress within the transfer community is ever more clear. The transfer community is vast and diverse – diverse not only in ages but also in past experiences and the road taken to get to UCLA. However, there is one thing that unifies the entire transfer community, […]
Submission: Healthy Campus Initiative works to promote wellness of UCLA community
We agree with the call to action written in your recent opinion piece supporting the development of a peer-counseling program. We’re pleased to report that a group of faculty and administrators, led by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh, has been meeting since last spring to develop such a program. Our goal is to […]
Editorial: BruinAlert should update UCLA community as situations progress
For the first time this quarter, the Office of Emergency Management successfully used BruinAlert to inform students of potential danger near campus. However, the BruinAlert sent to the student body Thursday regarding the alleged hostage situation on Tiverton Avenue came nearly an hour after the Daily Bruin had already confirmed and tweeted about the incident, […]
Arthur Wang: Free speech still alive at UCLA
Rest in peace, free speech. We at UCLA hardly knew ye. This is the obituary that is being written: Free speech at this campus and the University of California is dead, verbally slaughtered in cold blood by oversensitive students, has been codified by cowardly administrators and is being replaced by an overbearing political correctness police […]
Letter to the Editor: BruinAlert should be used more consistently during campus emergencies
The Daily Bruin recently included an editorial about the underutilization of the UCLA BruinAlert Mass Notification & Advisory System. We concur with opinions expressed and suggest if the system was deployed more consistently during campus emergencies, utilization would go up. Alert and warning systems using text messages are becoming very popular. However, we and others […]