The original version of this article contained information that was unclear and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. A recent independent report commissioned by the UCLA Office of the Chancellor has highlighted serious problems with racial discrimination among the university’s faculty and the inadequacy of current policies to handle […]
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Natalie Delgadillo: Devise new UC admissions criterion to improve student diversity
Increasing diversity in light of a state ban on the use of race and ethnicity in university admissions has, for the better part of two decades, proved a difficult task at the University of California. That’s why UC Student Regent Cinthia Flores is proposing a revision to the system the UC uses to review applicants […]
Ryan Nelson: Regents should increase student input, transparency
In math class, we’re generally taught to show our work. You can’t simply skip from the problem to the solution. Otherwise, the teacher would never know if the student understood the problem, cheated or just took a lucky guess. Much like a struggling student, the UC Board of Regents, in selecting a new University of […]
Graduate students showcase their multifaceted art pieces
Robots, video clips and superhero characters have come together at the New Wight Gallery. Students of the Design | Media Arts graduate program are currently presenting their work in a week-long exhibition entitled “Prefix.” The gallery includes multifaceted pieces, including displays of film, performance and computer engineering. The exhibition provides an opportunity to portray the […]
Letter to the Editor: USAC confident that budget review will be unbiased
Thank you for featuring the Undergraduate Students Association Council Internal Vice President’s Quarterly Budget Review initiative in Natalie Delgadillo’s column, “USAC budget reporting should be inclusive process” on Oct. 16. We welcome thorough discussion of our initiatives to make USAC more transparent to its constituents. However, I’d like to address a couple of the issues […]
Katie Shepherd: Rhetoric used in protest against Proposition 209 misleading, unfair
When it comes to gauging diversity on UCLA’s campus, the numbers don’t lie. After the passage of Proposition 209, a 1996 law that made race-conscious admissions illegal at California public universities, the number of underrepresented students admitted dropped precipitously. In the first freshman class admitted to UCLA without affirmative action, the number of black and Latino students […]
Movie Review: ‘Kill Your Darlings’
“Kill Your Darlings” invests in an evocative title, but only in the most literal sense do any of its darlings die. Ostensibly a gritty biographical portrait of Beat Generation writers – specifically the Columbia University group, centered around Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) – “Kill Your Darlings” flirts with style, but never escapes the generic structure […]