UCLA's second annual Consent Week aimed to use five days to spread awareness of sexual violence and prevention, but failed to adequately expand its outreach to all affected communities on campus. Read more...
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January 27, 12:00 am
Arthur Wang: Investment in California Community Colleges would bolster economy
Education should be for students, not for shareholders. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union proposal for free community college brought that issue to the forefront of national attention – and for very good reason, since community colleges currently enroll nearly half of U.S. Read more...
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January 26, 12:15 am
Aram Ghoogasian: Bruin Republicans’ diversity requirement protest gains little support
It’s often said that a small, dedicated group of people can make a large impact. Last week’s protest by 10 members of Bruin Republicans was not one of those times. Read more...
Photo: Psychology alumnus Alan Absalon joined a small group of students on Bruin Walk last week to protest the implementation of a diversity requirement for the College of Letters and Sciences. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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January 23, 12:05 am
Kunal Patel: Reducing administrative pay will not effectively cut UC costs
For the last few months leading up to Wednesday’s University of California Board of Regents meeting, the state has persistently asked that the UC open up its books and listen to state suggestions as a way to reduce its cost structure. Read more...
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January 22, 12:32 am
Ryan Nelson: UCLA needs to take initiative against overfishing
So we’ve officially eaten ourselves sick. That’s according to a study published this month by Science Magazine, which posits that human beings have essentially overfished ourselves to the brink, and soon will suffer the consequences: a massive extinction of marine life that will eventually cause a decreased food supply, less biological diversity and a far more vulnerable shoreline to the eventual tidal intrusion of our rising oceans. Read more...
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January 20, 12:35 pm
Aram Ghoogasian: USAC must be ethically consistent in Turkey divestment vote
One hundred years ago, my great-grandfather, a 9-year-old at the time, faced extermination at the hands of the Ottoman Empire because of his ethnicity. Today, the Republic of Turkey categorically denies that its predecessor state committed genocide against the Armenian people. Read more...
Photo: Members of the Turkish Cultural Club presented to the Undergraduate Students Association Council last week, asking them to vote against a resolution drafted by the Armenian Students’ Association to ask the University of California to divest from the Republic of Turkey. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
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January 16, 10:35 am
Natalie Delgadillo: State needs to accept responsibility, contribute to UCRP
For 20 years, the University of California and the state legislature folded their hands in their lap and slowly allowed one of the major financial structures of the University to sink into insolvency. Read more...