Ever since the election of America’s most anti-immigrant president since Woodrow Wilson, some have gone to great lengths to use Donald Trump to mask their own racial blind spots. For example, the University of California has sued the Trump administration over its Muslim ban and filed legal briefs in support of Deferred Action for Childhood […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Editorial: UCLA is swapping public transportation for unsustainable ride-hailing services
UCLA had a message for public transit this summer: not here you don’t. Public transportation users haven’t had it easy in Westwood. The sparse number of bus stops in the North Village and the limited reach of lines running from Westwood into the city make for an unflattering game of transit hopscotch for commuter Bruins. […]
Editorial: Amid lackluster scholarship fundraising, UCLA needs innovative solutions
$4.28 billion. 190,721 donors. 469,209 received gifts. And still one year before the 100th anniversary. UCLA has many reasons to celebrate its Centennial Campaign. But there’s one group that isn’t dancing all the way to the bank: students. Despite meeting and exceeding its overall fundraising target of $4.2 billion, UCLA’s Centennial Campaign is woefully lacking […]
Administrative bloat, budget mismanagement explain UC’s falling global rankings
The top public university in the nation. For the first time, UCLA can claim that title unilaterally. But the real question is: For how much longer? For years, the UC school system has boasted household name schools — UC Berkeley and UCLA. At times, these universities’ reputations precede them. Both play on the hype and […]
Want to Fund the UC? Start by focusing on administrative bloat
For Fund the UC’s supporters, the proposition that California should increase state aid to higher education seems wholly self-evident. But it appears that an increasingly large segment of the state’s political class is willing to do just the reverse. For the most part, critics of the UC system are not motivated by a simple distrust […]
Submission: Bruin Consent Coalition affirms support for plaintiff in fraternity lawsuit
We at Bruin Consent Coalition stand with the survivor who is suing the Interfraternity Council and the Zeta Beta Tau and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternities following the report she made against a former member of Zeta Beta Tau in January 2017. We are dismayed that yet again an assault has taken place on our campus, […]
Letter from the editor: Discussion, not disengagement, is the antidote to disagreement
Dear valued reader, Usually, those three words come at the start of some banal message to newspaper or magazine subscribers about hot deals to look out for. The Daily Bruin is offered to the Westwood community for free, though, so no tantalizing discounts this time. But, I really mean those three words: Dear. Valued. Reader. […]