“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” – unless they don’t have the proper paperwork and want to go to college. Undocumented students don’t need extra help to make their lives more difficult, but a conservative watchdog group is trying to make that happen. Judicial Watch recently filed a […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Editorial: Minimum wage hike for Los Angeles is necessary, feasible
This is a fact: you cannot meet necessary living expenses on $9 per hour, the current minimum wage in Los Angeles. This past Labor Day, the holiday that pays tribute to the labor movement that achieved social and economic improvements for workers and their families, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a plan to raise the city’s […]
Editorial: ‘Yes means yes’ bill protects sexual assault survivors on campuses
This post was updated on September 4 at 12:56 a.m. Last week, the state Senate unanimously passed a bill that, if signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, will change the way some colleges and universities have to define consent. This board strongly supports the bill for its specific definition of sexual consent, the first […]
Travis Fife: Minerva Project reinvents classroom model, universities should take note
What’s really shocking about universities isn’t how much they’ve changed. It’s how much they’ve stayed the same. Think about the typical classroom: There’s a professor lecturing, a group of students taking notes and maybe a graduate student or two there helping the professor. Thomas Aquinas used this model in 13th century Paris, and every teacher […]
Ryan Nelson: Public transit improvements can only come with shift in attitude
For more than two years, in an attempt that would’ve made the Simpsons proud, the city of Beverly Hills has argued that L.A. Metro should scrap the Purple Line extension, a Westside-to-downtown subway extension that will run underneath Wilshire Boulevard in favor of a comprehensive, above-ground monorail system, citing faulty scientific research and a lack […]
Editorial: Efforts at decriminalization of youth benefit state universities
It doesn’t make sense to arrest and cite the students you’re trying to send to college – and Los Angeles Unified School District officials are increasingly realizing that. On Tuesday, LAUSD changed its policy, no longer issuing police citations to students for minor offenses such as fighting, petty theft or possession of tobacco or alcohol. […]
Andrew Erickson: Uncivil comments should not overshadow productive dialogue
A regularly utilized, easy-to-use commenting system is a good start in a news outlet’s quest to become transparent and effective. It allows readers to express views that often counter those of the writers, share their own experiences and question how news coverage is constructed. In a system of free press, the best practice is free […]