Biden’s recent Los Angeles visit was full of stops showing he cared about ordinary Americans. He spoke about public transportation, gave a speech on lowering the cost of health care and even stopped by Tacos 1986. Read more...
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This post was updated Nov. 5 at 11:07 p.m. A new and shocking report revealed UCLA has been secretly surveilling its students’ activities online. The report, released by The Dallas Morning News, tracked universities’ use of Detect, previously named Social Sentinel, to obtain information from students’ social media accounts. Read more...
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When I was 13 years old – during the 2016 presidential election – I wondered how important an individual vote could be in a nation of hundreds of millions of registered voters. Read more...
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“The Black Bruin Experience” is a series by assistant Opinion editor Laila Wheeler, a second-year public affairs and sociology student. As a Black student at UCLA, she will be exploring a variety of Black issues, from institutional racism to anti-Blackness to the everyday experiences of being Black in the higher education system. Read more...
Photo: A mural at the Black Bruin Resource Center is pictured. Black Bruins often — but shouldn’t have to — feel like they don’t belong at UCLA, an institution with a high white student population. Black students deserve to feel welcomed, embraced and celebrated at UCLA.
As the most applied-to school in the nation, UCLA is home to approximately 31,600 undergraduate students – and the number continues to grow each year. With more students entering the university, space in lecture halls is becoming more and more scarce, ultimately limiting students’ ability to have an engaging and personalized learning experience. Read more...
Photo: One larger lecture hall and one smaller lecture hall are pictured. UCLA should move to reduce class sizes. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Oct. 14 at 12:12 a.m. Hispanic Heritage Month is a time to celebrate the traditions and past achievements of the Hispanic and Latino communities. Read more...
Photo: A mariachi band performs in Wilson Plaza at UCLA’s Latinx Welcome event during Hispanic Heritage Month. UCLA must do more to support Hispanic and Latino students to become a Hispanic-serving institution by 2025. (Shengfeng Chien/Daily Bruin staff)
This post was updated Oct. 11 at 5:27 p.m. Walking through UCLA, one can’t help but notice student workers’ impact on campus. Students working in dining halls, residential areas and tutoring centers provide countless essential resources and supply UCLA with a reliable and relatively cheap source of labor. Read more...
Photo: A student worker like first year graduate student Sunny Shah (pictured) is unable to work over 20 hours per week. (Anika Chakrabarti/Photo editor)
