For as much effort as UCLA has put toward increasing its undergraduate diversity through outreach programs, one group of individuals – women in engineering – is consistently overlooked. It is quite troubling that as the field of engineering and its associated salaries have grown in the last few decades to contain many of the highest […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Ara Shirinian: NASA needs to focus on climate change research
Congressional Republicans either don’t know anything about science, or just pretend not to know. I think it’s the former, but either way, we’re all going to be left high and dry if some sanity isn’t brought back to Washington. Last month, Republicans in the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology approved a budget for […]
Travis Fife: I Heart UCLA Week falls short in addressing campus climate issues
I love 8-clapping as much as the next person, but school spirit can only get you so far. This week marks the sixth rendition of I Heart UCLA Week put on by the Student Alumni Association, and recognizing the limits of school pride is a lesson SAA can take to heart. The goal of the […]
Submission: State should prioritize students, reinvest in higher education
Editor’s Note: A truncated version of this submission was first published by The Sacramento Bee. It has been edited for Daily Bruin style and reprinted below. The political battle being waged between the state government and our university is warping the University of California. It is corroding its very mission. In times of hardship, speaking […]
Chloe Lew: Students must make effort to be allies in substance abuse recovery
Three years and four months sober, first-year psychology student Marissa Ericson still wakes up in the middle of the night from the same recurring dream of shooting up heroin, a drug she has never touched. For Ericson, who began drinking and smoking cigarettes at the age of 11 and underwent rehabilitation at 16, being a […]
Editorial: Graduate Students Association councilwide evaluation
This year’s Graduate Students Association officers were effective in their ability to work together, to reach out to a more diverse array of graduate students and to tackle several important student concerns. However, next year’s officers will need to go a step further than this year’s in getting graduate students involved and following through with […]
Yiwei Sun: Napolitano must listen to undocumented students to earn trust
If the University of California held its national summit on undocumented students last week to improve its public image, the students in attendance made sure that effort did not go unchallenged. During UC President Janet Napolitano’s opening address at the summit – which convened students and policy experts to craft policy suggestions for undocumented student […]