The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for more information. The relationship between the Associated Students UCLA textbook store and the majority of its student customers has hit a rough patch. The prices ask for more than we are ready to give. We […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Eitan Arom: Judicial Board fails to set precedent for fair elections
The Daily Bruin does its best to write the news, and not to make the news. But The Bruin is not just a newspaper; it’s UCLA’s newspaper of record – and that means it also acts as a sort of interest group on behalf of free speech and free press on campus. That was the […]
Submission: Reduced time in Spanish, Portuguese classes detrimental
We, the undersigned graduate students and teaching assistants in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA, want to express our deep concern regarding the imminent “hybridization” of the department’s lower-division language program, which will take effect during the fall 2014 quarter. This initiative comes at a moment when the university’s lack of sufficient physical […]
Alexandra Tashman: Isla Vista shooting reinforces need to reflect on cultural misogyny
On Friday, a student at Santa Barbara City College went on a shooting rampage, targeting women throughout Isla Vista and leaving seven dead. This tragedy, like so many other shootings our nation witnesses, was horrifying, senseless and disturbing. For University of California students, however, it was particularly devastating. Six of our peers were taken from […]
Submission: Judicial Board verdict on conflict of interest case preserves freedoms
In an email statement to the campus community on May 16, Chancellor Gene Block stressed the importance of civil discourse in campus conversation, saying, “Political speech that stigmatizes or casts aspersions on individuals or particular groups does not promote healthy debate but debases it by trying to intimidate individuals and groups.” By attempting to disguise […]
Submission: USAC ethics statement exacerbates Israeli-Palestinian situation
I often imagine myself, somewhat delusionally, to dwell in the sane center in the battleground that is the Israeli-Palestinian debate in this country. Though branded by some on the right as a self-hating anti-Semite and by some fellow travelers on the left as a Zionist propagandist in disguise, I can’t help but feel that the […]
Submission: Block’s stance on ethics statement concerns Armenian community
Editor’s note: A version of this article originally appeared on the Armenian Chronicles blog. Many Armenian Bruins and alumni feel that the email statement Chancellor Gene Block sent to the campus on May 16 does not meaningfully participate with the reality of the Joint Statement of Undergraduate Students Association Council Ethics circulated among student government […]