A week ago, judge Claudia Wilken shook up the landscape of the NCAA as we know it, and college sports are ultimately better for it. Wilken’s 99-page ruling in O’Bannon v. NCAA placed an injunction on a ban against the compensation of student athletes, allowing schools to pay players up to $5,000 per year for […]
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Letter to the Editor: Jewish Student Union denounces anti-Semitic fliers
Editor‘s Note: The following letter appeared first on the Jewish Student Union’s Facebook page. It has been edited for Daily Bruin style and re-printed below. On Aug. 12, fliers covered with swastikas and anti-Jewish rhetoric were sent to a Jewish-owned business in Westwood, near the UCLA campus. On behalf of the organized Jewish community of […]
Ryan Nelson: “Power Five” autonomy unfavorable for lower-ranked schools
In a move that benefitted few and surprised no one, the NCAA voted last Thursday to allow its five richest conferences – the Pac-12, the Southeast Conference (SEC), the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten, and Big 12 – a certain degree of autonomy when governing their players. The vote allowed the schools in those […]
Natalie Delgadillo: Fatal shooting of Michael Brown leaves no questions answered
It’s been nearly a week since Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and it seems that all of us – his family, community and nation – are still searching for answers. We’ve looked to the police, who, until Friday, refused to identify Darren Wilson, the […]
Submission: UC task force needs more student input to address sexual assault
Sexual violence on college campuses is a silent, stigmatized epidemic, and no campus is exempt. Even universities absent from the Department of Education’s list of colleges currently under investigation for violating federal laws meant to protect survivors of sexual assault – Title IX and the Clery Act – desperately need to improve their policies, prevention […]
Julia McCarthy: UC support for sexual assault survivors needs to be solidified
This post was updated on Aug. 11 at 10:17 a.m. This past spring, “#WhyIDidntReport” became a trending hashtag on twitter. Survivors of sexual assault flooded the social media website with accounts of why they didn’t report their assaults. “#WhyIDidntReport Because I was 15 and had been drinking and wearing revealing clothes and I knew no […]
Aram Ghoogasian: UCLA should up water conservation efforts in wake of flood
UCLA is up to its waist in problems after students were up their ankles in dirty water last week. Last week, a water main burst on Sunset Boulevard, wasting about 20 million gallons of water and flooding parts of campus during one of California’s most severe droughts in recent memory. As the damage done to […]