Yet another free speech column? Please, try to contain your excitement. Apparently we didn’t get nearly enough self-aggrandizing punditry and opining on all sides of the political spectrum in 2015 when that famous question took college campuses nationwide by storm: Should speech be limited in the name of tolerance? So here I am, kicking off […]
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Arthur Wang: College football relies on unpaid labor of black athletes
As the UCLA Bruin football team gears up for the next football game against Nebraska on Dec. 26, I have some concerns as a newfound spectator of the sport. For one, when Washington State snatched away a seemingly assured UCLA victory last month thanks to a last-second touchdown pass by their quarterback, Luke Falk, I […]
Editorial Cartoon: Onboard the refugee crisis
The Quad: A long campaign season can save us from President Trump
“Everyone should get a bigger piece of the pie. Who doesn’t love pie? Who doesn’t love America?” The line came from none other than Donald Trump – or at least an actor portraying the cantankerous mogul, along with other students portraying Marco Rubio, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina at a mock […]
Jasmine Aquino: UCLA Housing should create student committee for input on its projects
The Hill seems to have it all: a newly renovated Saxon Suites beaming with high-quality glazed windows and an expensive barbecue area, a new 14,000-square-foot Bruin Fitness Center that features an extravagant design and all new equipment for undergraduate students, and even free HBO. And next year, the Hill will gloat a refurbished Hedrick Study, […]
Aram Ghoogasian: Graduate Students Association President Milan Chatterjee should resign
Reports of free speech’s death on our campus are often exaggerated. But now that the UCLA graduate student government has violated the First Amendment in its attempt to silence student activists, such claims carry a bit more weight. At the center of it all is a chain of emails sent by Graduate Students Association President […]
Julia McCarthy: EVP’s efforts lobbying against Safe Campus Act lack student involvement
How many UCLA students does it take to change a lightbulb? About the same number of students that the Undergraduate Students Association Council external vice president spoke with before taking a lobbying trip to Washington, D.C., this past week. Hint: It’s not that many. The point of the trip was to lobby against the Safe […]