You know it’s a problem when your elected officials are scrounging for ways to make themselves relevant. Especially when it involves creating anonymous forums. An anonymous forum, it turns out, might just become the calling card for UCLA’s undergraduate student government. The Campus Events Commission is reviving Spotted on Bruin Walk, an online platform developed […]
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Grade inflation: UCLA needs to address the problem hidden in plain sight
It seems the persistent war of words between North and South Campus students may point to a fundamental problem in UCLA’s grading policies. Conventional wisdom holds that students seeking easy classes should enroll in the social sciences and humanities, which supposedly grant A’s at a much higher proportion than classes in the sciences. The supposed […]
UC must prioritize modern values when naming buildings after historical figures
Benefactors may be nice, but they will come back to haunt you. Or at least their political ambitions will. The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law was recently trapped in controversy when it announced its intention to eliminate the name “Boalt” from a building, several alumni groups and about 120 other university institutions. John […]
Orientation needs an update to support new Bruin transfers as much as freshmen
I came to Transfer Student Orientation at 7 a.m. on a Friday, wide-eyed, bushy-tailed and ready to start my journey as a Bruin. Fast forward 10 hours and I was frantically running around the Hill, hair wild, eyes bloodshot, laptop in one hand, my phone in the other, scouring Google Maps to figure out where […]
Financial aid’s lack of clarity, transparency makes university less accessible
It’s no secret that attending college is more expensive than it’s ever been. As a public institution, UCLA has tried to be affordable to students regardless of their socio-economic status. While UCLA frequently touts the numbers of how many students receive aid, what it often glosses over is how complex and elusive the financial aid […]
UCLA’s inadequate career counseling fails to prepare job-hunting Bruins
UCLA objectively trumps many universities in most regards – but there are some things that we can learn from other schools. Providing good career services, for example. UCLA emphasizes providing students with a top-notch education. However, classes generally focus on subject matter mastery, rather than preparing students for their intended career paths. While this greatly […]
Course readers continue to burden students’ wallets, lines pockets of publishers
Westwood may seem safe on the surface, but, as any student could tell you, it’s an academic wild west. Like a stray bullet in the midst of a bar fight, this student was hit by a painful surprise this quarter: an $80 charge for a course reader. Course readers are paper-bound, custom-printed collections of materials […]