Los Angeles has joined the conversation on gun control. In late July, a ban on firearm magazines with capacity for 10 or more rounds of ammunition was enacted in the city. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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October 28, 1:06 am
Casey Kovarik: Exemption on high-capacity ammunition magazine ban poses safety risk
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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October 27, 12:48 am
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. Read more...
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Opinion, Opinion Columns
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October 26, 12:00 am
Jasmine Aquino: UCLA Residential Life should implement student wellness position
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. Read more...
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Opinion, Opinion Columns
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October 23, 12:49 am
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. Read more...
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Opinion, Opinion Columns
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October 22, 1:22 am
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. Read more...
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Opinion, Opinion Columns
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October 21, 2:03 am
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. Read more...
Photo: Counseling services across the University of California shouldn’t cap the number of visits available to students in consideration of those with chronic mental health issues. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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October 19, 12:22 am
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 – oh, and I forgot the trigger warning for depicting violence. Read more...
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