It’s been slightly more than a year since Amanda Cromwell first arrived at UCLA, but the notes from the first time the women’s soccer coach addressed her team in May last year are still tucked away deep in her iPhone, as they are in her memory. “At the very end of it I say something […]
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Editorial: Anderson School should be transparent about gender disparity
A 2006 internal report found that the UCLA Anderson School of Management had a disproportionately low amount of female professors among similar business schools and that women felt they were in a discriminatory climate. Eight years later, not much has changed. As of last year, the school ranked last in percentage of women faculty among […]
Editorial: Passage of SB 850 proves state Master Plan in grave need of update
Whether they knew it or not, California legislators signaled last week the woeful inadequacy of the state’s guiding document for public higher education. The California Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 850, a proposal to allow certain California community colleges to grant bachelor’s degrees. The bill completely ignores California’s Master Plan for Higher Education, which states […]
Julia McCarthy: L.A. Metro needs to find ways to cover costs without raising fares
For UCLA students living on the Hill, the cost of getting to class in the morning is a 15-minute walk from the dorms and maybe skipping breakfast. For others, it’s $150 a year and an hour-and-a-half bus ride every day. Nonetheless, the Los Angeles Metro system is still the most affordable option for many student […]
Editorial: Proposal for new basketball facility proves wasteful
Specifically, UCLA Athletics’ recent proposal for a $30-40 million, state-of-the-art men’s and women’s basketball facility to be built south of the Los Angeles Tennis Center would be an enormous waste.
Eitan Arom: Judicial Board fails to set precedent for fair elections
The Daily Bruin does its best to write the news, and not to make the news. But The Bruin is not just a newspaper; it’s UCLA’s newspaper of record – and that means it also acts as a sort of interest group on behalf of free speech and free press on campus. That was the […]
Alexandra Tashman: Isla Vista shooting reinforces need to reflect on cultural misogyny
On Friday, a student at Santa Barbara City College went on a shooting rampage, targeting women throughout Isla Vista and leaving seven dead. This tragedy, like so many other shootings our nation witnesses, was horrifying, senseless and disturbing. For University of California students, however, it was particularly devastating. Six of our peers were taken from […]