Category Archives: Opinion

Travis Fife: LA law enforcement must be open about license plate data collection

With the revelation that the National Security Agency, among other federal bodies, is collecting huge amounts of data on American citizens, it’s probably not surprising that Los Angeles County law enforcement agencies have adopted similar tactics. News reports and a lawsuit have revealed details of a police program that employs technology to indiscriminately take pictures […]

Editorial: UC campus climate survey flawed, not a solution

The newly released University of California campus climate survey is at best an affirmation of grievances already raised, and at worst, methodologically faulty and politically motivated. Fact finding is, without a doubt, vital to an enterprise as intricate as improving campus climate. But the long-awaited survey results lack a tangible road map for combating an […]

Chloe Lew: Standardize UC foreign language reqs across the board

It is difficult to grade someone’s ability to hold a conversation when you have never heard them speak. Yet several University of California campuses look at foreign language education the same way many students look at their least significant classes: “pass” or “no pass.” Although the foreign language requirement is firmly rooted in UCLA’s College […]

Letter to the Editor: Society’s obsession with diversity itself subtly racist

In response to “Editorial: Crop of commencement speakers lacks diversity” in Opinion on March 10: I am a 61-year-old white man, the sort that is often considered irrelevant and accused of being angered by the loss of privilege following social incursions of one or another previously oppressed groups. To allay any such considerations, I state […]