Graduate students are at the heart of UCLA’s academics. That’s worryingly easy to forget – something graduate students themselves might forget given the university’s treatment of them. Read more...
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Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 8, 10:42 pm
2019 GSA candidate endorsement: Paul Nesterenko for vice president of internal affairs
Everyone can have ideas – but it’s a matter of implementing them. Paul Nesterenko is the only candidate running for the Graduate Students Association vice president of internal affairs seat. Read more...
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Editorials, Opinion
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April 8, 10:41 pm
2019 GSA candidate endorsement: JP Santos for vice president of external affairs
The North and South Campus divide isn’t just an undergraduate phenomenon – it rocks the Graduate Students Association too. In a big way, actually. Student participation in the association from the Court of Sciences is beyond dismal – that title is already granted to the abysmal turnout and engagement GSA has gotten in recent years. Read more...
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Editorials, Opinion
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April 8, 10:37 pm
2019 GSA candidate endorsement: Zak Fisher for president
An untenable housing balloon. An administration intent on raising student fees. A counseling center with precipitous staff turnover. A campus bereft of child care facilities for most student parents. Read more...
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Editorials, Opinion
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April 7, 10:30 pm
Editorial: UCLA’s stonewalling of records requests toes line of illegality
UCLA is in the crosshairs of yet another lawsuit – something it could have avoided if only it had known the meaning of the word “promptly.” The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit that advocates for free speech rights at colleges, filed a lawsuit in March against UCLA to force it to comply with a records request. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 7, 10:30 pm
Revamping class planning process would help reduce student stress, confusion
It’s straight out of the 1990s: Websites are still poorly formatted globs of text and information is scattered across the internet. Universities are slowly moving onto the web, but finding what you need is like looking for a quarter of a needle in a haystack. Read more...
Photo: UCLA must improve its course descriptions and its class planner so that students aren’t forced to guess when the classes they want to take will be next available. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
Interactive Page, Opinion
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April 5, 10:56 am
Whose Campus?
A single, clenched fist thrust from a sea of white ivory. That’s the symbol of equity in higher education. It’s the sigil black students wear when they rise up to challenge an institution that has abandoned them. Read more...
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