Affordable housing is yet again a dashed hope in Westwood. The Agora, a proposed private 16-story apartment complex, came to town in November, claiming to offer affordable student housing in Westwood. The two physicians behind the project had filed plans with the Los Angeles Department of City of Planning, promising amenities such as a farmed […]
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Editorial: USAC’s questionable spending of excess money puts students on back burner
You would hope managing a multimillion-dollar budget would teach you a thing or two about fiscal responsibility. It’s only made the Undergraduate Students Association Council spendthrift, though. The council broke political and economic tradition Jan. 22 by refusing to tally the amount it wanted to spend in surplus funding, some of which went to student […]
Former surgeon remembered for devotion to students, medical breakthroughs
Warren Grundfest is remembered for his mentorship and his work in minimally invasive surgery and electrical and biomedical engineering. Grundfest, a former chair of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering’s biomedical engineering department, died Dec. 28, 2018. Grundfest first came to UCLA to complete an internship and part of his general surgery residency in 1980, […]
Students can apply to new public affairs major starting spring quarter
Students can engage in social change with a hands-on approach through a new undergraduate major. The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs announced its first undergraduate major, public affairs, in April. The major aims are to accommodate an expected rise in the student population, and to increase undergraduate exposure to the Luskin School’s resources. Students […]
Editorial: Lack of diversity in Geffen hiring process leads to lack of excellence
This post was updated Jan. 28 at 4:10 p.m. The only thing worse than a lack of commitment to diversity is a lack of commitment to looking diverse. The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is struggling to show even that. The acclaimed institute, which jointly conducts research and provides clinical services to Angelenos […]
Op-ed: Scooters on campus pose a threat to the safety of UCLA’s campus
Scooters are menaces on our campus that cause injuries to innocent people. The injuries can even get as bad as a broken hip. In fact, that has already happened at UCLA. On Sept. 24, at about 11:15 a.m., Juming Zhao, a consultant to universities in China, was walking on Charles E. Young Drive South, crossing […]
Editorial: USAC’s poor outreach results in overdependence on student attendance
Representative democracies have a simple formula: Voters cast their ballots for candidates who represent their interests. Those representatives then make decisions aligning with the interests of their constituents. UCLA’s undergraduate student government seems intent on different calculus: Voters decide everything. This year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council has hardly been up to the task of making […]