Jacqueline Leavitt, a professor emerita in urban planning and advocate for improved treatment of marginalized groups in urban planning, died Nov. 27 in Culver City from cancer-related complications. She was 76. She taught urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs for 32 years and directed the UCLA Community Scholars Program from 1999 […]
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Submission: Professors must work to understand, help students with mental illness
Dear My Best Friend’s Professor, I wanted to start off by letting you know that I think you are amazing. I don’t know the extent of what you do here at UCLA, but I do know that in order to have reached your esteemed position at this university, you have done incredible research and have […]
Editorial: San Bernardino shooting should not prompt anti-Muslim hate
After the shooting that left 14 dead in San Bernardino, California last week, the nation is searching for a way to heal. Some have held vigils. Others have offered prayers. Yet for a significant number of people, healing has taken the form of hate. To many, the shooting has come to represent the dangers of […]
Album Review: ‘A Head Full of Dreams’
Last year, Chris Martin bared listeners his broken heart with Coldplay’s album “Ghost Stories,” a sad eulogy to his split from longtime wife Gwyneth Paltrow. This year, with “A Head Full of Dreams,” he is attempting to convince his audience he’s ready to move on. However, while “A Head Full of Dreams” completes the almost-but-not-quite-cathartic […]
Matter of Fact: Prince Ali’s dunk more than just a highlight
I still haven’t seen the video. I don’t know if I want to. I don’t know if I want to force myself to judge it through the same lens as every other highlight-reel play I’ve seen in my life. I don’t want to ruin it. I mean, maybe – maybe – it’s not the greatest […]
Editorial: UCSD must not cut all student media funding because of one magazine
The University of California, San Diego has a vibrant alternative student media. The roster is expansive, and includes undergraduate research journals, fashion magazines and competing humor magazines. But now, in an effort to silence one of the list’s more vulgar components, the school has threatened to topple the entire enterprise. The Associated Students council, UCSD’s […]
Editorial: ASUCLA should set up pilot prayer space for more permanent solution
Some problems are so easy to fix that there’s almost no excuse for their existence. The lack of a nondiscriminatory prayer and meditation space at UCLA is one of these problems. For years, it seemed as if the prayer space has been used as a political promise by Undergraduate Students Association Council candidates of all […]