If you entered UCLA as a freshman, or you currently are a freshman, imagine having to experience one of the following during the start of your UCLA career: having only one day of orientation, not living on the Hill, having to work off campus, or driving to school everyday. How many of your memorable and […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Submission: Charlie Hebdo vigil forges solidarity among communities
On Jan. 12, close to 70 Bruins gathered to commemorate the heinous events which took place earlier this month in France. Following the attacks, millions of people took to social media to express their thoughts, emotions and reflections. Upon hearing that 12 people were ruthlessly, systemically executed in the offices of the satirical French magazine […]
Ara Shirinian: Legalizing street vendors would serve community
Since I started attending UCLA, I’ve considered the fruit stands that I often pass on my way home a fixture of Westwood Village. The fruit stands are just one example of the thousands of street vendors in Los Angeles that call the road their home, and to me are just another part of what the […]
Submission: Campus approach to transfer students overly patronizing
Last year, a referendum was passed by UCLA’s undergraduate student body to add a transfer representative office to the Undergraduate Students Association Council. Additionally, in recent years advocacy for transfer students has grown, and the process for transfer students to integrate with the UCLA community has become more transparent. However, in a recent submission written […]
Aram Ghoogasian: USAC must be ethically consistent in Turkey divestment vote
One hundred years ago, my great-grandfather, a 9-year-old at the time, faced extermination at the hands of the Ottoman Empire because of his ethnicity. Today, the Republic of Turkey categorically denies that its predecessor state committed genocide against the Armenian people. Denial of genocide itself has been called the final stage of genocide. This state-sanctioned […]
Natalie Delgadillo: State needs to accept responsibility, contribute to UCRP
For 20 years, the University of California and the state legislature folded their hands in their lap and slowly allowed one of the major financial structures of the University to sink into insolvency. Rather incomprehensibly, both stopped all contributions to the University of California Retirement Plan in 1990, driving the UC’s vast pension plan, which […]
Travis Fife: Additional funds necessary to close projected degree gap in California
Degrees are the bridge to California’s future, but we are starting to run out of planks. According to the Public Policy Institute of California, the state will need at least one million more college degree holders than currently projected by 2025. These findings were supported by another group, California Competes, which found California will need […]