While it seems that many men have an interest in defining gender inequality and what it means to be a woman, it seems few took the time to look up the definition of another word: irony. Last week, I wrote a column arguing that the federal government should mandate health insurers also provide tampons and pads […]
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Ara Shirinian: UCLA Health breach victims must take measures to protect identity
The next time your health insurance authorizes a payment for medication, you might not be the one who benefits. UCLA Health announced Friday that its computer network was hacked, leaving as many as 4.5 million people’s personal and medical information vulnerable to theft. While investigations in conjunction with the FBI seek out the organizers of […]
Aram Ghoogasian: Students must put pressure on UC Regents to have voices heard
The University of California Regents aren’t our friends. Trying to achieve goals such as keeping tuition rates stable, ensuring accessibility to higher education and proper representation rarely comes easy when students are faced with the votes of 25 individuals against their single, relatively inconsequential vote. In an attempt to increase student representation, Avi Oved, UC […]
Editorial: Charleston shooting forces students to look at on-campus racism
In 1963, the Ku Klux Klan detonated a bomb in a church in Birmingham, Ala., killing four black girls. The attack was a national tragedy that held a mirror up to America, revealing an ugly truth that spurred public support for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 less than a year later. […]
Arthur Wang: UC application should include optional letters of recommendation
Looking for a job? Consider becoming an admissions officer after graduation, because UC Berkeley is bracing for the possibility of having to review up to 160,000 additional pages of application materials to select the fall 2016 entering cohort. That’s because the campus quietly introduced a new policy earlier this year that allows students applying during […]
Aram Ghoogasian: Finding strength in differences to create a true Bruin identity
When we first step onto this campus, we come not only with suitcases and bundled nerves, but our identities – where we’ve come from and how we see the world – as well. UCLA, however, sometimes has other ideas. This institution tries to mediate the way we express our identities and tries to homogenize us […]
Editorial: UCLA should take responsibility for natural disaster preparedness
“San Andreas” came crashing into theaters last week as a multimillion dollar PSA of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s questionable acting skills and how woefully unprepared we are for a catastrophic temblor, even on UCLA’s campus. And while the images in “San Andreas” of collapsing skyscrapers and a tsunami smashing into the Golden Gate Bridge are […]