What were you doing on Nov. 3? I’m going to take a wild guess and say you were not in a voting booth casting a vote for the local Los Angeles County elections. But don’t worry, you’re not alone in your inaction. According to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk website, in Los Angeles County, […]
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Ara Shirinian: City needs to reduce parking fines, revamp street-cleaning procedures
I get it, the street needs to be cleaned. What I don’t get is why I need a $70 ticket on days when a street-cleaning vehicle is nowhere in sight, apparently replaced with an army of parking officers. Thankfully, the Los Angeles Parking Reform Working Group – tasked by Mayor Eric Garcetti with finding solutions […]
No Offense, But: College Applications
The Daily Bruin’s Opinion podcast is back! As the temperature drops and leaves turn red and fall from the trees, that special time of the year comes once more: college application season. Opinion columnists Chris Campbell, Ara Shirinian, Arthur Wang and Liberty Feliciano dive into the world of the University of California college application. Should […]
Casey Kovarik: UCLA’s Depression Grand Challenge should focus more on aiding students
I guess we should have known; they call it a “research institution,” not a “student institution.” Recently, UCLA has launched a number of “Grand Challenge” projects designed to face some of the largest, most pressing problems of our time. One of these, the Depression Grand Challenge, aims to find the root causes of depression and […]
Editorial Cartoon: Babies on economics
Catherine Liberty Feliciano: UCLA should not ban, but regulate Yik Yak
Everything is forever on the Internet now. Bylines, twitter handles and never-ending archives hold us accountable for everything we’ve ever dared to publish. Yik Yak is a different story – temporary, anonymous and a matter of controversy. Several feminist and civil rights organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil […]
Travis Fife: UCLA should disclose decision-making process when accepting donations
When it comes to donations accepted by the university, UCLA’s current policy prefers to keep the public in the dark. My last column dealt with the problems associated with a lack of transparency in UCLA’s donation policy. In that column I discussed past examples, such as the Resnicks’ sponsoring of pomegranate research that supports their […]