Walking to and from UCLA to your apartment can be tiring process – especially if you’re one of the unlucky few living off campus. Now, imagine having to push aside large amounts of trash every day in order to go up the stairs to your apartment just because haulers have missed waste pickups. The city […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Editorial: UCLA needs transparency if it wants to keep parents’ trust, support
UCLA rang in the new year by keeping up with an old tradition: angering parents who entrust the university to take care of their children. Last month, the university administration placed Norma Silva, the principal of the UCLA Lab School, which enrolls pre-K through sixth grade students and is operated by the Graduate School of […]
Selby Kia: UCLA must advocate for cost-effective solutions to textbooks
It’s not the textbooks that are weighing down UCLA students. It’s their costs. UCLA students spend an average of $1,000 every year on textbooks and other course materials. Although most students do not buy brand new textbooks at full price from the Associated Students UCLA Bookstore, even the “cheaper” alternatives such as the association’s textbook […]
William Zou: Continuing turf rebate program will improve LA’s sustainability
Imagine the vast landscapes that Los Angeles’ water supply flows through. Water from the Colorado River races past the Eagle Mountains, bends into the Mojave Desert and snakes through the Imperial Valley. The complex system of pumps and canals that comprise California’s water systems make the journey all the more impressive. Sadly, all the natural […]
Chris Busco: California marijuana laws are convoluted, designed to harm small businesses
California rang in the new year by opening the world’s largest marijuana economy. Too bad the only people getting high off the market will be those who can afford to navigate the botched patchwork of regulations and large fees the state government has in store for them. In 2016, California voters overwhelmingly chose to legalize […]
Editorial: Allowing lawmakers to remove regents opens UC to political pressure
When the University of California Board of Regents was created 150 years ago, legislators presciently wrote that the regents were meant to keep the UC independent of political influence. What they forgot to add in, however, was a clause to remove unfit regents – or at least hold them accountable. The American Federation of State, […]
Abhishek Shetty: Ackerman’s aesthetic renovations should not be priority given projected losses
Amid million-dollar losses, increasing labor costs and faltering book sales, you wouldn’t expect Associated Students UCLA to be spending money on renovating bathroom tiles to aesthetically match the outside flooring. But that’s exactly what the association has planned in the future. ASUCLA announced at the beginning of fall quarter that it expected its Services and […]