Students watched their phones intensely the week before fall-quarter finals, looking to a stream of sporadic BruinAlerts to gauge the safety of the campus amid the raging Skirball fire. Last quarter, the Academic Affairs Commission published a letter to the Academic Senate demanding UCLA cancel classes on Dec. 6 and Dec. 7, forgive attendance for […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Submission: Student body should engage with USAC, campus politics
If people were angels, James Madison wrote, we would need no government. Instead, we have UCLA’s Undergraduate Students Association Council, and the undergraduate students who run for student government office have the USAC Election Board. While running for office in May, I called for more transparency from our campus’ elected officials about where – and […]
Editorial: New dining hall policy lacks strong basis, needs to be scrapped
UCLA’s dining halls were ranked the best in the nation for two years in a row. UCLA Dining Services boasts an exquisite array of foods and drinks at its all-you-can-eat dining restaurants, and students living on the Hill are treated to a variety of hospitality services to fill their stomachs or quench their thirst. And […]
Editorial Cartoon: Turkey Pardon
Editorial Cartoon: Medieval Cellphone Companies
Editorial Cartoon: Make it rain
Mariah Furtek: UCLA needs to consider programs to help food-insecure students
While some Bruins will spend the weeks after the holidays doing extra sets of crunches in the hopes of getting their jeans to fit again after some scrumptious, festive food, other students will spend their time crunching numbers to see how they’ll afford their next meal. This lack of guaranteed access to sufficient nutritious food, […]