UCLA is planning to add 750 more students for the upcoming school year, and how it accommodates them is going to become increasingly important. Vice Chancellor Steve Olsen said to mitigate the addition of incoming students, one of the upcoming priorities of the university is “to improve the quality and the number of seats in the classrooms.” Multiple lecture halls will be renovated in the summer, including Moore 100 and a couple of the Young Court of Sciences rooms, said Olsen. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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March 10, 12:00 am
Editorial: UCLA should add online classes to accommodate higher enrollment
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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March 9, 10:14 pm
Julia McCarthy: Students should be made aware of campus legal services
Imagine finding out, on top of dealing with the stresses of classes, midterms and work, you were also facing eviction. Kelsey Tokunaga, a fourth-year sociology student, doesn’t need to imagine it – it actually happened to her. Read more...
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Opinion
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March 9, 10:11 pm
Submission: UC Regents must decide whether to fully commit to climate leadership
On Feb. 26, members from Fossil Free UCLA met with the UC Board of Regents’ Committee on Investments, or the COI, to present their case for fossil fuel divestment. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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March 6, 10:46 pm
Editorial: UCLA should offer severance package to Piterberg to protect community
The Daily Bruin editorial board calls on UCLA to ensure history professor Gabriel Piterberg does not return to his position. Piterberg has been the subject of multiple sexual harassment complaints from graduate students within his department. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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March 6, 10:40 pm
Sandra Wenceslao: Instructor evaluations need revision to avoid biased, unclear feedback
Take out your pens or laptops; it’s time for students to relieve themselves of the pains they’ve endured all quarter long. Towards the end of the quarter, the Evaluation of Instruction Program gives students a survey that asks them to share their experience of a course. Read more...
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Community, Opinion
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March 6, 10:40 pm
Letter to the Editor: Protesters must direct efforts toward those with power to enact change
I applaud the activism of students who demonstrated on March 2 to show their strong disagreement with the punishment that the UCLA administration has fixed in the sexual harassment case that has distressed my department, the student body and the entire campus for many months now. Read more...
