For the last few months leading up to Wednesday’s University of California Board of Regents meeting, the state has persistently asked that the UC open up its books and listen to state suggestions as a way to reduce its cost structure. And as an olive branch of good faith to Gov. Jerry Brown, the Board […]
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Editorial: UCLA must make reasonably priced parking available to students
For commuter students, having affordable transportation is not just a convenience – it’s a necessity. Of the total student population at UCLA, around 25 percent of all students – undergraduate and graduate alike – commute to campus. Many commuter students do so to cut down on costs, usually by living outside of pricey Westwood. Unfortunately, […]
Ara Shirinian: Legalizing street vendors would serve community
Since I started attending UCLA, I’ve considered the fruit stands that I often pass on my way home a fixture of Westwood Village. The fruit stands are just one example of the thousands of street vendors in Los Angeles that call the road their home, and to me are just another part of what the […]
Aram Ghoogasian: USAC must be ethically consistent in Turkey divestment vote
One hundred years ago, my great-grandfather, a 9-year-old at the time, faced extermination at the hands of the Ottoman Empire because of his ethnicity. Today, the Republic of Turkey categorically denies that its predecessor state committed genocide against the Armenian people. Denial of genocide itself has been called the final stage of genocide. This state-sanctioned […]
Natalie Delgadillo: State needs to accept responsibility, contribute to UCRP
For 20 years, the University of California and the state legislature folded their hands in their lap and slowly allowed one of the major financial structures of the University to sink into insolvency. Rather incomprehensibly, both stopped all contributions to the University of California Retirement Plan in 1990, driving the UC’s vast pension plan, which […]
Editorial: UCLA community should stand against Armenian genocide denial
Members of the Turkish Cultural Club tried to deny on Tuesday that the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians near the start of the 20th century was a genocide. Denying the existence of a genocide is a heinous act that degrades the experience of an entire people and is threatening to the prevention of future racism […]
Julia McCarthy: ‘Je suis Charlie’ rally cry acquires negative sentiment
Across the world, “Je suis Charlie,” has become a trending phrase. It has allowed anyone with an Internet connection to show his or her solidarity for the victims of the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. However, the deaths of the 12 victims in the attacks have been manipulated to represent much more […]