Club Sports’ hands-off management approach allows gender discrimination of teams

Everyone hates a referee who makes unfair calls. The only thing worse is a ref who doesn’t make any calls. Welcome to Club Sports at UCLA. The UCLA Competitive Sports program consists of both Club and Intramural Sports. Club Sports consists of 55 different teams – including sailing, Quidditch, archery and rugby – with 2,500 […]

Amid measles outbreak, UCLA needs to improve students’ public health awareness

About two decades ago, vaccinations made measles a disease of the past. But we’ve brought back the world’s most contagious virus – and it’s all courtesy of ignorance. Despite being in the information age, Americans have a distinct lack of information about the basics of science and health care. The misconceptions have run amok: People […]

Fraternity sexual assault allegations should not brand Greek community as a whole

Binge drinking, mob mentality and hazing. Greek life has a long list of negative stereotypes. One that has continued to stick out in recent years: its perceived sexual assault problem. The most recently publicized Greek life-related sexual assault allegations at UCLA have involved the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. In winter quarter, a member of the […]

Westwood theaters must be preserved to connect community, protect cinema history

As you look out onto the Westwood skyline, one building’s defining silhouette sticks out: a tall white tower topped with three neon red letters reading “FOX.” Opened in the 1930s, the Regency Village Theatre and its across-the-street counterpart, the Regency Bruin Theatre, immediately became classic movie houses, serving both the student population and the affluent […]

University tenure clock disfavors women weighing academic ambition against family

Professors aspiring to get tenure are working against a ticking clock. For women, though, this clock ticks much louder. Faculty at UCLA typically start off as assistant professors and work within a roughly eight-year time frame to obtain tenure, or permanent employment. Every two years, they’re evaluated and have the opportunity to climb the hiring […]

UCLA boasts activists-in-residence to distract from on-campus inequity

UCLA asks whether activism can be taught. What it really means to ask is whether activism can be bought. UCLA Activist-in-Residence is a position put on jointly by the Asian American studies department and the Institute on Inequality and Democracy. The institute started this program in order to create a space for activists on campus […]

Predictive policing algorithm perpetuates racial profiling by LAPD

Los Angeles Police Department officers have done such a poor job of making our streets safer that they are now relying on an algorithm to tell them how to do their jobs. A racist, culturally ignorant algorithm, that is. LAPD has a history of using and abandoning predictive policing algorithms. One of the only ones […]