The Beverly Hills Unified School District is like an irascible, entitled toddler: If it doesn’t get what it wants, it resorts to petulance to make its voice heard. BHUSD filed a lawsuit late January against the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority for its Purple Line Extension project that would run a subway from Koreatown […]
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Engineering school should use student feedback to provide useful advising
There are some memories of their first year at UCLA that engineering students do not forget: the first caffeine and sports drink-fueled all-nighter, the first unabashed chant of “Cs get degrees!,” the first time they get lost in South Campus, and so on. Their first faculty advising meeting, however, does not usually make the list. […]
Omar Said: UCLA is cutting costs at the expense of the deaf and hard of hearing community
This post was updated Feb. 10 and 10:16 a.m. Imagine being on a campus of 50,000 students and not always being able to hear what’s going on around you. Extracurricular activities would be rather confusing, guest speakers would be speaking gibberish unless you stared intently at their lips and group projects would be a nightmare. […]
Chris Busco: UCLA should act on longstanding security threats to university apartments
On the morning of Feb. 6, the University Apartments North Administration Office sent an email to UCLA’s university apartment residents detailing serious crimes that occurred within the immediate off-campus vicinity. Notwithstanding such crimes, numerous undergraduate residents went home that evening to unsecured university apartment complexes. Just this school year, there have been three burglaries in […]
UCLA common book program should expand mediums to appeal to wider audiences
Reading UCLA’s common book wasn’t all that common. But this year, that seems to be changing. The Common Book Selection Committee, which consists of faculty members, students and UCLA community members, selects a book each year they believe is noteworthy and important for students to read. The common book program has existed since 2008 and […]
Avvalzameer Bhatia: CSO-operated weekend shuttle service would improve student safety
Westwood is a rather uneventful place. But when you’re walking around North Village at 1 a.m. on a Saturday, the quiet college town becomes a lot spookier. UCLA has a fix for this, though: the Community Service Officers van program – a valuable resource, except, of course, if you’re in need of it on a […]
Aaron Julian: LA Metro must address safety concerns in light of ridership declines
Los Angeles’ public transportation system, like any city’s transportation network, is large, complex and sometimes slow. But it needs to pick up the pace when it comes to addressing the safety concerns of its riders. LA Metro could be the second-most extensive public transportation system in the United States by 2028. In 2016, Angelenos overwhelmingly […]