The Middle East is crucial to our national security interests, but it is imploding in internal turmoil and murderous inter-ethnic and inter-religious warfare. It is replete with failed states and barbarism. There are millions of displaced persons and hundreds of thousands of deaths. The United States’ efforts, the expenditure of our resources and the lives […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Students should push Gov. Brown to prioritize funding UC maintenance
Gov. Jerry Brown has repeatedly refused the University of California state funds throughout this year, despite a surplus and a declining financial situation at all ten campuses across the state. But students have remained strangely silent about Brown’s minimal support for higher education. Generally, students push for better financial aid and lower tuition. But when […]
Aram Ghoogasian: Organizations should address root problems of homelessness
Many homeless people have problems that can’t be solved with a new home; it’s just more complicated than that. And oftentimes, these complexities don’t get the attention they deserve. Over the next 15 years, Los Angeles homeless organizations will receive $214 million in funding from public and private backers, much of which will be used […]
Zoey Freedman: Common books with contemporary themes could help students connect
UCLA’s incoming students are bombarded with traditions from they moment arrive on campus: among them, the legendary campus tours and the historic crosstown rivalry that serve to bond students together and give them something in common to share. Another of these traditions is introducing and distributing the Common Book, the book picked by UCLA for […]
Chloe Lew: More discussion on sexual assault needed to foster conscious community
The last time I had a conversation about alcohol in relation to sexual assault, somebody proposed the following rule of thumb: Drunk boys should just never hook up with drunk girls, and vice versa. Here is what a person can dangerously gather from that misguided advice: Drinking leads to sexual assault. It is a regrettable […]
Submission: USAC councilmembers must represent student voices
Editor’s Note: The following submission contains strong language. We feel its inclusion is necessary to accurately depict the author’s experience. For a period of five months earlier this year, I received death threats. On Feb. 25, I ignored my normally silent position as a minute-taker for student government and spoke my mind. I was standing […]
Submission: Liberty-minded students must voice their opinions
The year is beginning and there is a war being waged. It is a war for relevance, war for prosperity and war for freedom. It is a war for electoral seats, but it is also a war of ideas. And UCLA is poised to be one of the greatest battlefronts. For too long in academia, […]