Thursday, July 23

Accessibility, affordability would incentivize students to use public transport

This post was updated Oct. 15 at 1:11 p.m. Los Angeles transit sucks. After only two years in LA, I’ve come to realize a fundamental truth: If you want to get anywhere in the city on time, you’d better Uber and better budget a good amount of time to get through traffic. Read more...

Photo: Cities like Berlin offer students free access to an easily usable system of public transportation. Los Angeles should make its public transportation easier to use and take steps to make it more accessible to students in the city. (Axel Lopez/Assistant Photo editor)


Editorial: Lack of discipline for Greek life reveals need for administration’s interference

UCLA seems to have forgotten that the Interfraternity Council is run by children. Over the summer, the campus community was once again reminded of the problem of sexual violence in the Greek system when a student filed a sexual assault lawsuit against the IFC, the Zeta Beta Tau and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternities, and Blake Lobato, a former member of ZBT found by UCLA to have committed statutory rape. Read more...