Imagine this: Toyota promises to build a bridge between Manhattan and Queens to help commuters, but you have to buy a Toyota to use it. Silly, right? Read more...

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It’s impossible not to be confronted with broken promises and dashed expectations looking back on the first year of California’s legal recreational marijuana market. In fact, you would have to be smoking something pretty strong to see California’s efforts as anything less than a disappointment. Read more...

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You know it’s a problem when your elected officials are scrounging for ways to make themselves relevant. Especially when it involves creating anonymous forums. An anonymous forum, it turns out, might just become the calling card for UCLA’s undergraduate student government. Read more...

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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)

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...

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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...

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It’s no secret that attending college is more expensive than it’s ever been. As a public institution, UCLA has tried to be affordable to students regardless of their socio-economic status. Read more...

Photo: Federal student aid is meant to make college affordable to students of all socioeconomic backgrounds. Instead, it might just be making education even more unaffordable. (Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin)