Album Review: ‘Sit Still, Look Pretty’

Daya is trying to be the new Lorde. The 17-year-old pop artist sounds just as dream-like as the “Royals” singer, and Daya’s debut studio album “Sit Still, Look Pretty” appeals to the same group of wannabe edgy mainstream listeners. Both her titular song and April 2015 hit “Hide Away” promise an album of original, ethereal […]

Karishma Daibee: UC’s subpar mental health services need state Legislature’s support

If you’re like me, you may not know much about UCLA’s Counseling and Psychological Services, except for the rumors you’ve heard that it’s severely understaffed, making it impossible to get an appointment and a waste of time to try. It’s not CAPS’s fault. Gov. Jerry Brown is denying them the money they need. Brown recently […]

Editorial: California Legislature must allow small businesses protected leave

Expanding job protections to new parents can be a controversial issue, especially when applied to small businesses. But it’s still important that as many workers as possible have the job security they need, so when the California Legislature writes a law about it, it should be as inclusive as possible. On Friday, Gov. Jerry Brown […]

Keshav Tadimeti: Napolitano’s tirade on free speech unjustified, insensitive

In the shouting match that is democracy, if your voice is louder than someone else’s, you aren’t silencing theirs; you’re just heard better. That’s a fact Janet Napolitano doesn’t seem to understand. Napolitano, the President of the University of California, recently published an op-ed in the Boston Globe – as opposed to, say, a publication […]

Second Take: Solange’s album drop a product of new era of cross-media releases

Solange Knowles quietly dropped her latest album over the weekend, but her artwork did not go unnoticed. The younger of the Knowles sisters won the internet by pairing her new album, “A Seat at the Table,” with a digital art book of poetry and photos that celebrates black beauty and confronts the realities of contemporary […]

Guillaume Kosmala: Student debt must be addressed in presidential debates

On Monday night, the first presidential debate took place. Many things were said, including the dubious claims that Donald Trump is not “braggadocious,” that the entirety of the economic recovery is due to a “big, fat, ugly bubble” and that the Democratic National Convention could have been hacked by “somebody sitting on their bed who […]

Editorial: Supreme Court must hear O’Bannon case, secure athletes’ right to own image

The ball is now in the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the amateur status of collegiate athletes. Among the thousands of petitions set to go in front of the eight current justices over the coming weeks – each petitioner hoping for a hearing with the nation’s highest court – only one case brings with it […]