The University of California has long been synonymous with ballooning administrations and rampant bureaucracy. That imagery might be changing, though. A third-party review of the UC Office of the President found the office is run quite efficiently, but has the potential to cut up to half of its $883 million budget to reduce University expenditures. […]
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Omar Said: UCLA is cutting costs at the expense of the deaf and hard of hearing community
This post was updated Feb. 10 and 10:16 a.m. Imagine being on a campus of 50,000 students and not always being able to hear what’s going on around you. Extracurricular activities would be rather confusing, guest speakers would be speaking gibberish unless you stared intently at their lips and group projects would be a nightmare. […]
Chris Busco: UCLA should act on longstanding security threats to university apartments
On the morning of Feb. 6, the University Apartments North Administration Office sent an email to UCLA’s university apartment residents detailing serious crimes that occurred within the immediate off-campus vicinity. Notwithstanding such crimes, numerous undergraduate residents went home that evening to unsecured university apartment complexes. Just this school year, there have been three burglaries in […]
UCLA common book program should expand mediums to appeal to wider audiences
Reading UCLA’s common book wasn’t all that common. But this year, that seems to be changing. The Common Book Selection Committee, which consists of faculty members, students and UCLA community members, selects a book each year they believe is noteworthy and important for students to read. The common book program has existed since 2008 and […]
Submission: Insider Academic Senate appointments perpetuate USAC bureaucracy
On Jan. 30, 2018, the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Academic Affairs Commissioner, Divya Sharma, wrote a submission in the Daily Bruin regarding his appointments to the Academic Senate. His piece defended his commission’s decision to appoint members of its own office, not the general student body, to the senate. What his lofty words and hubris […]
Submission: Student government, the fight for social change go hand in hand
In the chaos of bodies pressed against each other, I watched in horror as students dressed in graduation gowns were put in handcuffs. Their satin blue robes glimmered beneath the wintry Washington, D.C., sun as they were escorted away by Capitol Police. In the shadow of the U.S. Supreme Court building, I stood among hundreds […]
Avvalzameer Bhatia: CSO-operated weekend shuttle service would improve student safety
Westwood is a rather uneventful place. But when you’re walking around North Village at 1 a.m. on a Saturday, the quiet college town becomes a lot spookier. UCLA has a fix for this, though: the Community Service Officers van program – a valuable resource, except, of course, if you’re in need of it on a […]