The UC Board of Regents is an exclusive club, and students have only minimal membership.
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Category Archives: Opinion
Submission: Co-author of UCSA resolution needs to disclose affiliations
On Feb. 8, the University of California Student Association (UCSA) will vote on a resolution to divest from eleven companies that do business with Israel. The legislation was authored by Students for Justice in Palestine members across the country including Rahim Kurwa, a UCLA graduate student who has played a leading role in promoting similar campaigns within the Undergraduate Students Association Council here at UCLA.
Submission: UCSA should follow UC campus’ leads, support divestment
Historically, divestment has been used as an instrument to discourage unethical behavior, as in the cases of South African Apartheid, the prison-industrial complex and the fossil fuel industry. Over the past three years, this tool has re-emerged across the UC system as well as at private universities throughout the nation. Specifically, UCLA’s involvement with divestment […]
Casey Kovarik: Miscommunication between UCLA, study abroad students a major frustration
Information on study abroad is getting lost in translation before students set foot in a foreign country. Students planning on studying abroad have to coordinate with their academic department or college, the UCLA study abroad office, the University of California Education Abroad Program and the international school they are studying at before they leave on […]
Editorial: Hate crime at UC Davis detracts from constructive campus dialogue
Hate speech reared its ugly head again on a University of California campus during divestment debates, in what has become a sad and predictable pattern. On Jan. 31, red swastikas were found spray painted on the exterior walls and grounds of the UC Davis branch of the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi. This despicable act […]
Submission: Petition to broaden vote on diversity requirement threatens UCLA College autonomy
Editor’s note: The following is an open letter to UCLA faculty that represents the opinion of more than 350 UCLA faculty members. It was submitted to the Daily Bruin by ecology and evolutionary biology professor Paul Barber. Dear UCLA faculty, We are writing on behalf of more than 350 UCLA faculty to express our deep […]
Ara Shirinian: Issues surrounding broadband Internet deserve more attention
There are two main problems facing the future of the Internet in America. One is net neutrality, which is the ability of companies to choose what content they make accessible to consumers. The other major problem is broadband deployment throughout the United States. Broadband is essentially an Internet connection that’s fast enough to deliver “high […]