More people live in Dykstra Hall than voted in the last year’s Westwood Neighborhood Council election. Despite this, the council wants to make voting even more difficult for students and young professionals, as it voted last week against a proposal to add online voting to its upcoming election in 2016. Jerry Brown, president of the […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Arthur Wang: Perpetual construction shows students as customers, not residents
Westwood is cramped, but if you count the dollars being spent on students who live on the Hill, we’re living large. I type this from the comfort – even if there’s no air conditioning – of the newly-renovated Saxon Suites, an almost-finished product that cost a cool $25 million to complete. Complete with an LED-lit […]
Shani Shahmoon: Students should check hypocrisy when calling out generalizations
In an effort to expand their minds, some people may be narrowing their perspectives. Today, there is a strong movement that has been attempting to bring an end to the generalizations of people, communities and organizations. Specifically, UCLA has become a place where ethnicities, religions and overall unique differences have become a major part of […]
Submission: Queer Alliance seeks to provide much-needed intersectional, safe space
Editor’s note: Some of this submission’s authors have requested their names be altered because they are unable to express their sexuality or gender identity in their personal lives outside the UCLA community. All contributors can be contacted by email at uclaqueeralliance@gmail.com. In a campus as large as UCLA’s, it’s easy to get lost in the […]
Submission: Job stability is the only difference between lecturers, professors
On your first day of class, you will probably assume that the instructor at the front of the room is a professor, right? You’ve got about a 50-50 chance of being right. Truth is, your instructor might be a lecturer or a professor. What’s the difference? No difference for you, the students. But, in fact, […]
Editorial: Organizers must allow, encourage media access to campus events
The Daily Bruin has set out to cover Bruin Bash as thoroughly as possible since the event’s inception in 2005, digging into both the atmosphere and performances as well as the financial processes that actually fund it. As one of the single largest regular pieces of programming put on at UCLA, Bruin Bash – and […]
Editorial: CEC, CAC needs better coordination for future Bruin Bash events
This year was a typical one for Bruin Bash. Well, except for the 23 calls to Emergency Medical Services, the sweaty mob that flooded the Intramural Field hoping to get a colored wristband and a rescinded promise from organizers that everyone who wanted to go would be able to. But none of that really seemed […]