Thursday, 9 a.m., week eight. A 30-minute-long line awaits you at the bottom of Murphy Hall. When it’s finally your turn, you try to drop off that petition form to finally get rid of that 10 a.m. class you can never quite make it to. You realize too late, though, that you haven’t gotten your […]
Category Archives: Opinion
UCLA must support students by providing more accessible options for textbooks
There are many things to like about attending a university during the 21st century. Ask someone older, and they may share a horror story or two of lugging textbooks for miles, uphill both ways. But even today, Bruins don’t have an easy time getting ahold of textbooks, with long lines in the Ackerman Student Union […]
Enormous Activities Fair limits search for clubs to zero week, on-campus students
You know it’s zero week when the Enormous Activities Fair is in full swing and students are walking around with bunches of flyers in their hands. The obvious thought on these Bruins’ minds: So many clubs, so little time. Each year, UCLA hosts the EAF to give students an important first glance of student life […]
Editorial: CAPS needs to accept its limitations, focus on short-term treatment, referrals
UCLA’s mental health care services can be summed up in one word: disappointing. That’s old news to many. UCLA’s Counseling and Psychological Services has an unflattering reputation: ludicrously long appointment wait times, cramped space, dried-up funding and limited personnel. Add in that those in need can only receive up to three therapy sessions per year […]
