Category Archives: Opinion
Editorial Cartoon: Conflict over Crimea
Editorial: Survivors deserve to know harassers’ punishments
The University of California recently updated its sexual harassment and violence policy with the intention of making the process of reporting and addressing assaults clearer for survivors and University officials.
Aram Ghoogasian: USAC’s delayed budget report reveals bigger problems
Accountability is a nice thing to ride into office on, but when faced with the realities of governance, it’s a difficult platform to follow through with. The Undergraduate Students Association Council owes its student constituents a fall quarterly budget report – a document that is now almost two months overdue. Major financial controversies this year […]
Submission: Daily Bruin should have disclosed authors’ link to Hasbara
On Feb. 25, the Daily Bruin published an op-ed entitled “Divestment promotes anti-Israeli movement,” written by Avinoam Baral, Tammy Rubin and Miriam Eshaghian. Although I personally do not agree with the political viewpoints endorsed by the authors, I find it more problematic that the three are participants in the Hasbara Fellowships program, and that the Daily Bruin failed to publicly […]
Editorial: Crop of commencement speakers lacks diversity
Since the UCLA College of Letters and Science reinstated a college-wide commencement in 2002, the crop of commencement speakers has lacked the diversity that UCLA administration touts as one of the university’s top priorities. Only four out of 13 were people of color. Seven of the past 13 speakers were white males. Only two were […]
Natalie Delgadillo: Faculty must note campus climate
It’s hard to argue that campus climate is not a problem at UCLA. A growing list of incidents on campus this year proves that point: student protests denouncing Proposition 209, which bans affirmative action in the state of California; a student video criticizing the university’s lack of black students; racist and sexist fliers directed at […]