The year 2014 was the hottest on record since atmospheric record-keeping began more than 100 years ago. Events in our backyards, across the country, around the world – Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Katrina, increasing ocean acidification, extinctions, irreversible glacial and arctic melting, drought, floods and storms – tell us unmistakably: Climate change is here, now. In […]
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Yiwei Sun: UCLA must continue to create inclusive environment for LGBT students
With UCLA’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Campus Resource Center celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, UCLA has come a long way in terms of creating a supportive environment for LGBT students. In a 2014 ranking by Campus Pride, UCLA has been recognized as one of the top 50 LGBT-friendly campuses, with a rating of […]
Shani Shahmoon: Creation of online open courses could reconnect alumni to UCLA
By creating and subsidizing online courses for alumni, UCLA can redefine what it means to be part of the Bruin family. Starting in 2012, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology collaborated to create a nonprofit, Massive Open Online Course program called “edX,” which provides free online courses for alumni at their alma maters. These […]
Ara Shirinian: FCC’s proposal to redefine broadband will protect consumer interests
The way major Internet service providers like Comcast, AT&T;, Verizon and Time Warner Cable talk about regulations, one might think any form of governance would lead to a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions. These companies are preemptively trying to turn public sentiment against the Federal Communications Commission, which is going to be voting on Feb. 26 […]
Chloe Lew: Sexual assault policy needs more transparency
If the university is going to make employees divulge information about their friends and colleagues, the least it could do is give up some of its own. Five days ago, I started looking for information regarding mandatory reporters of issues such as sexual assault at UCLA. I came up, for the most part, empty-handed – […]
Casey Kovarik: Miscommunication between UCLA, study abroad students a major frustration
Information on study abroad is getting lost in translation before students set foot in a foreign country. Students planning on studying abroad have to coordinate with their academic department or college, the UCLA study abroad office, the University of California Education Abroad Program and the international school they are studying at before they leave on […]
Ara Shirinian: Issues surrounding broadband Internet deserve more attention
There are two main problems facing the future of the Internet in America. One is net neutrality, which is the ability of companies to choose what content they make accessible to consumers. The other major problem is broadband deployment throughout the United States. Broadband is essentially an Internet connection that’s fast enough to deliver “high […]