This post was updated Jan. 28 at 10:00 a.m. In the late 18th century, American revolutionaries proclaimed they would not abide taxation without representation. Today, UCLA students are protesting funding allocations without adequate representation. Read more...
Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council must ensure its use of student fees is transparent so students don’t lose faith in what remains of UCLA’s democratic system. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
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)
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)
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)
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)
“La educación no se vende, se defiende.” Education isn’t sold, it’s defended. That was just one of the many signs teachers carried at Friday’s United Teachers Los Angeles rally in front of City Hall. Read more...
Photo: Los Angeles Unified School District schools are at a standstill as the teachers’ union strikes for more educational resources from administrators. The fight is one we should all be supporting. (Catherine Montgomery/Daily Bruin)
Jan. 1. New year, new you, right? All that’s on your mind is that it’s time to start eating at Bruin Plate and hitting up the Bruin Fitness Center regularly. Read more...
Photo: Many students rely on private loans to pay for housing, but the disbursement times don’t line up with when rent is due for non-UCLA housing. This is due to federal regulations not being flexible and not taking into account how students actually use private loans. (Emily Ng/Daily Bruin)
