I came to Transfer Student Orientation at 7 a.m. on a Friday, wide-eyed, bushy-tailed and ready to start my journey as a Bruin. Fast forward 10 hours and I was frantically running around the Hill, hair wild, eyes bloodshot, laptop in one hand, my phone in the other, scouring Google Maps to figure out where […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Editorial: Access Control staff shortages indicative of larger safety inefficiency
UCLA Housing Access Control has a problem. Hint: it’s not with the access part. Access Control, a UCLA Housing unit that monitors the entry of residents into certain buildings between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. by checking photo identification, reported having vacancies for nearly half its positions at the start of the quarter. While vacancies […]
Submission: University shows hypocrisy in Rev. Lawson UCLA Medal ceremony
Last week, Chancellor Gene Block awarded Rev. James Lawson our university’s highest honor, the UCLA Medal, for his contributions to nonviolence and social change. The UCLA Medal has been awarded to many people who have, for better or for worse, changed the culture and the political climate we live in. These include novelist Toni Morrison, […]
Financial aid’s lack of clarity, transparency makes university less accessible
It’s no secret that attending college is more expensive than it’s ever been. As a public institution, UCLA has tried to be affordable to students regardless of their socio-economic status. While UCLA frequently touts the numbers of how many students receive aid, what it often glosses over is how complex and elusive the financial aid […]
UCLA’s inadequate career counseling fails to prepare job-hunting Bruins
UCLA objectively trumps many universities in most regards – but there are some things that we can learn from other schools. Providing good career services, for example. UCLA emphasizes providing students with a top-notch education. However, classes generally focus on subject matter mastery, rather than preparing students for their intended career paths. While this greatly […]
Editorial: Mental health service ‘fast lanes’ won’t solve problems CAPS’ understaffing created
An opaque counseling center is the last thing you would want from a university with a distinct lack of mental health resources. Turns out, that’s precisely what UCLA has. The Daily Bruin reported Nov. 16 Counseling and Psychological Services had partnered with the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science to offer additional […]
Course readers continue to burden students’ wallets, lines pockets of publishers
Westwood may seem safe on the surface, but, as any student could tell you, it’s an academic wild west. Like a stray bullet in the midst of a bar fight, this student was hit by a painful surprise this quarter: an $80 charge for a course reader. Course readers are paper-bound, custom-printed collections of materials […]