Cesar Chavez said, “We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community – and this nation.” When the faculty of the UCLA College of Letters and Science passed a diversity requirement in October 2014, I felt immense pride to be a Bruin. After […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Editorial: USAC should pass new election code to maintain dignity of offices
An overhaul of the undergraduate student government election code is long overdue. The Undergraduate Students Association Council will vote on several amendments to its election code at its Tuesday meeting. In order to ensure that future elections are fair and properly regulated, the council should vote to pass the changed code in the form presented […]
Aram Ghoogasian: UC must increase transparency by fully disclosing finances to workers
The University of California isn’t very good at making friends. Over the course of a little more than a year, the UC has managed to antagonize both its teaching assistants and its service workers. Now it’s the doctors’ turn. Last week, doctors staged a strike across the UC in protest of the University’s unfair labor […]
Editorial: Plea deal in former athlete assault case reveals flaws in court system
A former UCLA water polo player accepted a plea deal last week that put him in prison for six months, forced him to attend one year of sexual assault counseling and serve two months of community service. At face value, that punishment does not seem to let Hakop Kaplanyan off easy. But in the context […]
Editorial: UC should require extra vaccinations for incoming class
Following outbreaks of several infectious diseases on college campuses in recent years – including an outbreak of meningitis at UC Santa Barbara in 2013 – the University of California should move quickly to make sure its students are properly immunized. The UC is currently considering a tentative plan to require an extended list of vaccinations […]
Additional competency exams could reduce redundancy of GEs
In the never-ending struggle to balance college coursework with extracurricular activities, jobs and life in general, there comes a time when certain coursework becomes an undue and frankly unnecessary burden. And by certain coursework, I mean specific general electives, which are mandatory requirements for UCLA students to graduate. The theory behind required general electives is […]
Alexandra Tashman: Supporting UCLAyak, even passively, is immoral and illegal
Filming someone during sex without their explicit permission and then distributing the video is a crime. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. And yet, some students are not only illegally filming their classmates, but they’re spreading the videos around for other students to watch. Enter UCLAyak. UCLAyak is a Snapchat account that […]