Selby Kia: Community Programs Office should make test bank more user-friendly

Now that the turkey mania has settled and finals are on the horizon, many UCLA students will find themselves at the Community Programs Office test bank in the coming week, waiting in line and frantically trying to operate a mouse that resembles an eight ball. UCLA’s test bank, which is located in the Student Activities […]

Clea Wurster: Title IX advisory board must educate, provide student platform

Title IX policies, which prohibit sex or gender discrimination in federally funded educational programs, are incredibly important on college campuses. But ask any student on Bruin Walk how these policies are written – or even where UCLA’s Title IX Office is – and chances are you’ll get little more than a blank stare and maybe […]

William Bleveans: UCLA must provide subsidized internships to remedy inequity

UCLA may claim it’s committed to ensuring that its students start their careers with internship experience, but it’s fallen short in supporting students as they enter the job market. The university has failed to keep up with other institutions of comparable prestige when it comes to subsidizing internships for its students. Unlike the University of […]

Editorial: Regent accused of sexual harassment must exit board

California’s state government has started to purge itself of sexual harassers. But one at the University of California doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. State assemblymember Raul Bocanegra declared last week he would not run for re-election in the face of sexual harassment allegations. And members of California’s Democratic Party are calling for the resignation […]

Arthur Wang: Men’s basketball controversy sheds light on Chinese legal system

From Colin Kaepernick to the Ping-Pong diplomacy of the 1970s, which initiated the diplomatic thaw between China and the United States, politics and sport have always been entangled in both countries. Nobody could have anticipated, though, that the latest transnational athletics-related entanglement would involve three teenage UCLA basketball players, the inept American president, an outspoken […]

Pravin Visakan: California prison overcrowding may worsen with possible new crime laws

California has a troubled history surrounding its criminal justice system. As recent as October, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation found that all but two of its prison centers were packed over their designed capacities. But throughout the last decade, the state has implemented more rehabilitative criminal justice policies to solve its long-standing problems […]

Erin Nguyen: Annual USAC resolution repeal ignores marginalized communities’ groundwork

A large group of students with their hands over their hearts gather in a circle. They begin clapping rhythmically, gradually increasing speed until the clap breaks out into a thunderous roar. As the students clap, they chant, “Isang Bagsak,” which they interpret as “If one of us falls, we all fall, but if one of […]