Finding and paying for housing is rarely simple for UCLA students who live on the Hill, where dorms are expensive and roommate assignments can cause everyone grief – but access problems are compounded for students who identify as transgender. Currently, there is one Gender, Sexuality and Society themed community on the Hill, but living there […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Submission: CALCASA’s support of SB 668 betrays wishes of student survivors, activists
At the urging of University of California student survivors and activists, the UC President’s Task Force on Preventing and Responding to Sexual Violence and Sexual Assault produced a mandated recommendation for all UC campuses to have a confidential and privileged advocate on each campus. This confidential and privileged advocate is essentially a one-stop shop for […]
Editorial: UCLA must speed up water conservation efforts
California’s first-ever water mandate announced last week raised alarms that water conservation isn’t happening fast enough in the state – including at campuses like UCLA. UCLA has already started taking important steps toward reducing its water usage in the long term. But California’s water shortage is in an emergency state, and the university needs to […]
Ara Shirinian: LA Hacks should work to increase female representation
If there’s one word I want you to remember after reading this column, it’s disruption. In the technology industry, disruption is a way of life, a lust for innovation, a need for something better. With it, you thrive, and without it, you wither. For the last three days, more than 1400 students occupied the court […]
Submission: Ashe Center offers yoga to help reduce chronic stress in students
As a leader in the forefront of healthcare, UCLA’s Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center now offers its students free, specialized yoga classes that address the prevalent negative effects of chronic stress that many students experience. While stress is a normal reaction in human physiology to a demanding situation causing the body’s defenses to […]
Aram Ghoogasian: Gender discrimination toward USAC leadership still prevalent
Male student government candidates usually don’t have to think twice about their safety while campaigning. Female candidates, on the other hand, face harassment on a regular basis. USC recently made headlines after it elected its first female student body president in about a decade. Its student government had not even seen a woman make a […]
Chloe Lew: Yik Yak brings bigotry to forefront, creates impetus for change
Ever since I downloaded Yik Yak, I have been searching for a reason to delete it. In the last few months, “riding the Yak” has become routine for me – partly in search of a laugh, but mostly in search of the one racist, sexist, bigoted or outright hateful post that would be my breaking […]