By creating and subsidizing online courses for alumni, UCLA can redefine what it means to be part of the Bruin family. Starting in 2012, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology collaborated to create a nonprofit, Massive Open Online Course program called “edX,” which provides free online courses for alumni at their alma maters. These […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Submission: Anti-divestment groups resort to personal attacks in lieu of logical argument
The Daily Bruin ran two op-eds Friday in the run-up to the landmark University of California Student Association vote in favor of divesting UC funds from companies enabling Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. One op-ed made a clear, reasoned case for why the UCSA should support this initiative. The other was an attack on […]
Aram Ghoogasian: Slates must enforce inclusiveness of open application process
It’s one thing to say a process is inclusive. It’s another to make it so. The latter is going be the difficult part for the Undergraduate Students Association Council as May elections approach. The two most prominent UCLA undergraduate student government slates, Bruins United and LET’S ACT!, recently released applications for those looking to run […]
Submission: Diversity requirement critical for future campus governance
Dear Colleagues, We write to categorically support the proposed College of Letters and Science undergraduate diversity requirement, an amendment to Divisional Regulation A-458 (C). The College Faculty Executive Committee, the Undergraduate Council and the UCLA Academic Senate’s Legislative Assembly have all supported this requirement following extensive vetting and debate. Nevertheless, a small group of opponents […]
Chloe Lew: Sexual assault policy needs more transparency
If the university is going to make employees divulge information about their friends and colleagues, the least it could do is give up some of its own. Five days ago, I started looking for information regarding mandatory reporters of issues such as sexual assault at UCLA. I came up, for the most part, empty-handed – […]
Editorial: 24-hour Hedrick study lounge exorbitantly expensive, unnecessary
UCLA housing officials plan to spend $8.2 million over the next year to build a needlessly expensive study spot in Hedrick dining hall. Of the total cost, $2.4 million is set to go to architectural costs, including finishings and furnishings. About $2.5 million would go to electrical, mechanical and plumbing costs, and the rest would […]
Submission: Students crucial to speaking up against taking autonomy away from UC
In my years of student advocacy at UCLA, I have been to San Francisco to the University of California Board of Regents meetings twice. I, like many students, find the regents to be aloof to student concerns. When I lobbied them to move some meetings during the year to Southern California campuses, I was met […]