This post was updated Jan. 28 at 4:10 p.m. The only thing worse than a lack of commitment to diversity is a lack of commitment to looking diverse. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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January 24, 10:26 pm
Op-ed: Scooters on campus pose a threat to the safety of UCLA’s campus
Scooters are menaces on our campus that cause injuries to innocent people. The injuries can even get as bad as a broken hip. In fact, that has already happened at UCLA. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 24, 10:25 pm
UCLA Dining Services fails students with insufficient gluten-free considerations
When family weekend finally rolled around during my first quarter at UCLA, I was most excited to show off the amazing food on the Hill. Then again, I hadn’t considered my dad, who has celiac disease, would be poisoned within the first five minutes of eating in a dining hall. Read more...
Photo: (Clara Vamvulescu/Daily Bruin)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 23, 10:29 pm
UCLA must establish multilingual writing center to support diverse student body
Is a school really committed to student-body diversity if it does not support diverse languages? UCLA seems reluctant to answer that question. Though the university has an 11.8 percent international student body and boasts thousands of classes in foreign languages, it does not have a multilingual writing center where tutors can help students develop their academic writing in a range of languages. Read more...
Photo: The Undergraduate Writing Center offers students help with their writing in English, but expanding to include multilingual resources would better serve UCLA’s diverse student body. Shown here are Lucy Flattery-Vickness, a second-year sociology student (left), and Mengxiao Nie, a third-year biochemistry student (right). (James Schaap/Daily Bruin)
Editorials, Opinion
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January 23, 10:20 pm
Editorial: USAC’s poor outreach results in overdependence on student attendance
Representative democracies have a simple formula: Voters cast their ballots for candidates who represent their interests. Those representatives then make decisions aligning with the interests of their constituents. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 22, 10:37 pm
UC engaged in necessary fight for open access to research-based knowledge
Academic research is about the spread of knowledge. For publishing companies, it’s about how many more millions of dollars they can pad their profit margins with. Read more...
Photo: (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 22, 10:26 pm
Financial aid office lacks consistency when it comes to helping students
When you have to handle financial aid for more than 45,000 students, something is bound to go wrong. For proof of that, look to UCLA’s financial aid office – a demonstration that you can’t trust anyone. Read more...
Photo: (Angela Song/Daily Bruin)