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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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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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)

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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Much of academic research presents itself as a neutral account of the world around us. Recently, however, a controversy in Washington, D.C., has sparked a debate about how money and finances can influence research. Read more...

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