Tune into replays of the latest Democratic debate in New York, and chances are you’ll see Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton verbally jousting over the other’s qualifications for the presidency. In fact, they have been at each other’s necks on everything from campaign funding to reform of the financial […]
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Submission: Students should embrace openness, reject animosity of Horowitz posters
It’s that time again. Time for another round of posters on campus by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, associating Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim Students Association with terrorism. Last week, the center went further than usual, naming a blacklist of students and professors that it claimed support genocide. There is a clear […]
Editorial: USAC should loosen Election Code restrictions on online campaigning
The first signs of an impending student government election are the high-resolution photos of candidates accompanied by long-winded captions on social media. However, these monologues don’t explicitly state that the people posting them are actually running in the election. In reality, candidates are skirting around the Election Code, which bans online campaigning until the fourth […]
Grad student emphasizes inclusivity in GSA presidential platform
Jonathan Koch played the violin and wrote his own music as a young child but has since taken on activism as a teaching assistant and graduate student in music. Koch will run to be president of the Graduate Students Association under Working for Graduate Students, a student-run political slate. He said he became interested in […]
Love Apptually: Bumbling along in the quest for love
Each week in “Love Apptually,” Daily Bruin staffers Nico Correia and Natalie Green will take turns attempting to find love in all of the wrong places: dating applications. To help thousands of loveless students, but mostly themselves, Correia and Green will test run and rate five dating apps over the course of one quarter. I […]
US Women’s National Team deserves a win for wage equality
April 12 marked Equal Pay Day, a day highlighting the fact that it takes women on average 16 months and 12 days to make the same amount as men do in a year. This is particularly poignant in the sports world this year, as the U.S. Women’s National Team recently exposed the issues concerning equal […]
Abishek Shetty: Panama Papers shed light on problems of tax evasion within the US
Mention tax evasion and immediately a number of small countries spring to mind – Panama, Switzerland, Bermuda and other island countries. You’d be forgiven for not including locations closer to home, such as Delaware and Wyoming, in that list. In the largest leak of all time, the Panama Papers consist of 11.5 million documents on […]