To a UCLA student, the concerns of faraway campuses like UC Berkeley and UC Davis might seem irrelevant to life on our campus. But the fact is, our campuses operate under the same system and are subject to the same budgetary strains that tie the University together in important ways. Read more...

When it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict, it seems that time runs in a loop. Read more...

Photo: Top: Students hold a banner advocating UC divestment from South Africa at UCLA’s commencement ceremony in June 1986. UC police later confiscated the banner.
Bottom: Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and U.S. Senator Alan Cranston joined student protestors at a Westwood Plaza press conference outside the UC Board of Regents meeting to denounce South African apartheid in 1986.

With several incidents of hate crime and slurs against various campus communities occurring in the past couple years, campus climate has become a major topic of discussion for students at UCLA. Read more...

I’m not particularly good at laying bricks. Yet about a year ago, over spring break, I found myself doing just that for a non-governmental farmer-support organization in rural Nicaragua with 10 other UCLA students – none of whom were any more adept than myself at masonry. Read more...

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This August, Mark Yudof will step down from his position as president of the University of California. Read more...