The principal mission of any local newspaper is to tell the stories of its community. Sometimes, though, those stories are best told by the community itself. Read more...
Photo: The Daily Bruin will be referring to pieces from the public as “op-eds” instead of “submissions.” The change isn’t just semantic, though – it’s part of an effort to better tell the community’s stories. (Joe Akira/Daily Bruin staff)
UCLA gave students their own version of a finals dead week by allowing them to venture to class in hazardous air conditions during the Skirball fire. Read more...
Photo: The Skirball fire raged within earshot of UCLA in December 2017, threatening students’ well-being. The campus fell into chaos as administrators struggled to accommodate academics during a time of emergency. More than a year later, UCLA still has done little about this. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Despite popular belief, students don’t just write in Haines and Bunche halls. All UCLA students are required to take one Writing II class. These classes are designed to improve the proficiency of students’ writing skills for use throughout their academic careers. Read more...
Photo: (Claire Sun/Daily Bruin)
Imagine this: Toyota promises to build a bridge between Manhattan and Queens to help commuters, but you have to buy a Toyota to use it. Silly, right? Read more...
Photo: (Creative Commons photo by Steve Jurvetson via Wikimedia Commons)
It’s impossible not to be confronted with broken promises and dashed expectations looking back on the first year of California’s legal recreational marijuana market. In fact, you would have to be smoking something pretty strong to see California’s efforts as anything less than a disappointment. Read more...
Photo: (Clara Vamvulescu/Daily Bruin)
You know it’s a problem when your elected officials are scrounging for ways to make themselves relevant. Especially when it involves creating anonymous forums. An anonymous forum, it turns out, might just become the calling card for UCLA’s undergraduate student government. Read more...
Photo: (Cody Wilson/Daily Bruin)
It seems the persistent war of words between North and South Campus students may point to a fundamental problem in UCLA’s grading policies. Conventional wisdom holds that students seeking easy classes should enroll in the social sciences and humanities, which supposedly grant A’s at a much higher proportion than classes in the sciences. Read more...
Photo: Students have long held that UCLA’s history and social science classes give out more A’s than the university’s science classes do. The troubling reason behind this disparity is grade inflation. (Daily Bruin file photo)
