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)

Whether it’s Tex-Mex at De Neve, Asian fusion at Feast at Rieber, health-conscious options at Bruin Plate or one of the many other choices available, UCLA delivers. Read more...

Photo: UCLA has been charging students for avocados at an elevated cost. While this may seem minor, it reveals how the university has been shortchanging students. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin staff)

The nation’s representatives made one thing certain this fall: Politics has no place in sexual violence prevention efforts. Tell that to UCLA’s undergraduate student government. The Undergraduate Students Association Council has decided to take a stand against sexual violence in Greek life, following sexual assault allegations against a former Zeta Beta Tau fraternity member and a lawsuit against the Interfraternity Council. Read more...

Photo: The feud between UCLA Greeklife and minority students makes the undergraduate student government a political hodgepodge that is unfit to address sexual violence in fraternities. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)

Economists of all stripes are fond of saying that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Where the University of California’s renewable energy goals are concerned, this old adage is 100 percent correct. Read more...

Photo: (Nicole Anisgard Parra/Daily Bruin)

Mariah Furtek is a staff columnist studying abroad in London until winter quarter. In this column series, she analyzes UCLA’s study abroad program and examines from afar how Bruins live in their beloved Los Angeles. Read more...

Photo: (Shreya Mantri/Daily Bruin)

It takes a village to raise a child. Thank goodness UCLA students have Culver City. Students have long complained about their needs being neglected by the Westwood Neighborhood Council. Read more...

Photo: Despite the thousands of students living in Westwood to attend UCLA, the Village has few options for them to shop at and locate the essentials they need while living here. (Rachel Hefner/Daily Bruin)