When students are welcomed to UCLA during orientation, they’re told to save the phone number for the university’s Counseling and Psychological Services center in case of emergencies. They’re reminded we need to continue destigmatizing mental illnesses. They’re reassured the university has trained counselors who can tend to their needs. What they aren’t told is limited […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Editorial Cartoon: The bigger they are, the harder they fall
Editorial Cartoon: “What a nice boat. Do you want it back?”
Federal financial aid policy hinders off-campus students from paying rent on time
Jan. 1. New year, new you, right? All that’s on your mind is that it’s time to start eating at Bruin Plate and hitting up the Bruin Fitness Center regularly. Unless you live off campus, in which case rent is the only thing on your mind. In order to pay for UCLA, some students have […]
UC chancellors’ decision to thwart academic boycotts protects free speech
In December, the University of California’s 10 chancellors all made a decision to promote and preserve intellectual pursuit over a political agenda. It was the right one. Numerous institutions launched an academic boycott of Israel in April 2004 following rising tensions in the Israel-Palestine border conflict. The demonstration was part of the larger Boycott, Divestment, […]
Required diversity, inclusion statements unfairly bias UCLA hiring process
In an effort to promote diversity, UCLA might just be doing the opposite. The university enacted a policy in May that requires all faculty candidates to submit an equity, diversity and inclusion statement as part of their application. An EDI statement is a short essay that lays out a candidate’s past contributions and future plans […]
Editorial: Faculty EDI statement is half-baked solution for diversity, inclusion
UCLA’s diversity and inclusion strategy is inclusive of a lot of diverse ideas – even troublingly bad ones. Earlier this academic year, the university began requiring all prospective faculty hires to fill out an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion statement, which involves applicants mentioning their past, present and future contributions to diversity and equity, which are […]