BY STEPHANIE KIM Like much of the UCLA community, I was moved by Sy Stokes’ recent video denouncing the lack of diversity efforts in student admissions policies, and outraged over the inadequate responses by administration to reported discrimination against faculty members of color. Read more...
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November 20, 1:13 am
Submission: Moore Hall sit-in addressing discrimination lacked open, tolerant spirit
Community, Opinion
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November 19, 12:22 am
Submission: UC must make worker safety a priority
BY KATHRYN LYBARGER There are two parts to the ongoing dispute between the University of California and the system’s largest union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME, Local 3299. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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November 18, 12:00 am
Submission: The term ‘illegal immigrant’ generalizes individuals
I recently read an article that was printed and plastered throughout the UCLA campus by The Bruin Standard. This campus fosters the intelligence of nearly 40,000 students and scholars – and yet here is a published work with thoughts that are rightfully entitled to be expressed, but dumbfoundingly used to suppress and oppress the voices and agency of a community the author is clearly so ignorant of. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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November 13, 12:00 am
Submission: UC lags behind competitors, must invest in graduate student support
Editor’s note: The following is an open letter from the UCLA Graduate Students Association to University of California President Janet Napolitano. Dear President Napolitano, As the organization representing over 12,000 graduate and professional students studying here at UCLA, we, the Graduate Students Association of UCLA, are writing to highlight the crisis the University of California is facing with respect to the competitiveness of graduate student support.The long-term disinvestment in graduate student support – the amount we receive for our work as teaching assistants, research assistants and when we are on fellowship – relative to our peer institutions poses serious challenges to the ability of the UC to retain its current graduate students and threatens its ability to recruit the best graduate students in the future. Read more...
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November 5, 12:36 am
Letter to the Editor: Affirmative action assists in achieving diversity
By Paula Tavrow, Associate adjunct professor I take exception to David Cooper’s op-ed, “Race debate is misguided,” on Nov. 1. I agree with him that affirmative action fails to address one source of disparities – namely, the poor quality of schools for many minority children. Read more...
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November 5, 12:00 am
Submission: Refusing dialogue hinders progress in conflict resolution
By members of Hillel at UCLA, Bruins for Israel and J Street U at UCLA Imagine a conversation in which one party starts by saying, “Sure, let’s talk. Read more...