Tall and bright on the front entrance of the Wooden Center stands a flag that reads: UCLA is a healthy campus. While the UCLA campus also includes the Hill, it doesn’t feel that way when it comes to student health. There seems to be a fixation on campus services as opposed to treating the thousands […]
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Aram Ghoogasian: UC shouldn’t sacrifice educational quality for administration quantity
The logic of free-market economics has become so pervasive in the last few decades that not even public education can escape it. As much as we decry the state of the modern university, the neoliberal model isn’t going anywhere for the time being. It’s despicable, but understandable, that major colleges, even public institutions, must compete […]
Chris Campbell: UCLA must provide alternative mental health services
College is hard. Exams, homework, extracurricular activities and work cause everyone stress. But for students with mental illness, it can be debilitating. That’s what makes UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services, or CAPS, such a valuable resource on campus. CAPS is the main psychological treatment center on campus and provides services such as individual and group […]
Catherine Liberty Feliciano: New CAPS policy hinders those with long-term mental health issues
Reasons aside, I was recently advised to consider Counseling and Psychological Services with the assurance that going there didn’t mean that I was on the verge of a mental breakdown. But it could have. And it has. And when that happened, CAPS did its best to help me re-orient myself before referring me to a […]
Submission: Healthy Campus Initiative works to promote wellness of UCLA community
We agree with the call to action written in your recent opinion piece supporting the development of a peer-counseling program. We’re pleased to report that a group of faculty and administrators, led by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh, has been meeting since last spring to develop such a program. Our goal is to […]
Arthur Wang: Free speech still alive at UCLA
Rest in peace, free speech. We at UCLA hardly knew ye. This is the obituary that is being written: Free speech at this campus and the University of California is dead, verbally slaughtered in cold blood by oversensitive students, has been codified by cowardly administrators and is being replaced by an overbearing political correctness police […]
Travis Fife: UCLA should be more transparent in process for accepting donations
Much of academic research presents itself as a neutral account of the world around us. Recently, however, a controversy in Washington, D.C., has sparked a debate about how money and finances can influence research. In this case, Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren called out economist Robert Litan for what she perceived as a conflict of interest […]