Wednesday, February 18





Grade inflation: UCLA needs to address the problem hidden in plain sight

It seems the persistent war of words between North and South Campus students may point to a fundamental problem in UCLA’s grading policies. Conventional wisdom holds that students seeking easy classes should enroll in the social sciences and humanities, which supposedly grant A’s at a much higher proportion than classes in the sciences. Read more...

Photo: Students have long held that UCLA’s history and social science classes give out more A’s than the university’s science classes do. The troubling reason behind this disparity is grade inflation. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UC must prioritize modern values when naming buildings after historical figures

Benefactors may be nice, but they will come back to haunt you. Or at least their political ambitions will. The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law was recently trapped in controversy when it announced its intention to eliminate the name “Boalt” from a building, several alumni groups and about 120 other university institutions. Read more...

Photo: (Michelle Fu/Daily Bruin)


Orientation needs an update to support new Bruin transfers as much as freshmen

I came to Transfer Student Orientation at 7 a.m. on a Friday, wide-eyed, bushy-tailed and ready to start my journey as a Bruin. Fast forward 10 hours and I was frantically running around the Hill, hair wild, eyes bloodshot, laptop in one hand, my phone in the other, scouring Google Maps to figure out where in the world Sproul Cove was so I could barely make it in time to my advisor meeting. Read more...

Photo: (Haley Aufill/Daily Bruin)



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