This year’s undergraduate student government elections will feature candidates from three slates for the first time since 2010. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 12, 12:08 am
Jerry Zhao: A competitive USAC election can foster more representative, accountable platforms
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 10, 11:33 pm
Natalie Delgadillo: Bruin Diversity Initiative loosely connected to actual campus diversity
The Bruin Diversity Initiative proposes a $9.93 fee increase per quarter to fund various campus entities and student organizations, all supposedly bound by the ideal of diversity. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 10, 12:51 am
Katie Shepherd: Graduate students need to increase participation in elections
UCLA’s graduate students will have the chance this week to speak out on controversial changes to the university’s in absentia policy and to approve new funding to graduate-specific resources on campus. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 9, 12:13 am
Megan Beck: Cap-and-trade should provide limited allowances for UC
Carbon is now a commodity. Under California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, businesses and institutions – including universities – must pay for the carbon they emit. Senate Bill 497 strives to alleviate the financial burden on the University of California and California State University by freely allocating allowances, effectively exempting both university systems from having to purchase more carbon. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 9, 12:09 am
Eitan Arom: Data needed to ensure rebenching matches reality
Under the new University of California funding scheme set to be phased in over the next six years, the idea that all undergraduates should be equally funded is integral. But it misses a central truth: that all undergraduates are, in fact, not created equal. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 8, 12:00 am
Natalie Delgadillo: USAC should have allowed Bruin Diversity Referendum spot on ballot
Campus climate could find its way back to the ballot this year. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 5, 12:58 am
Benjamin Powell: Transfer students require more counseling resources
The California community college system is at a turning point. Read more...