Thursday, February 19

Are you there, UCLA? It’s me, Mom: Lactation rooms on campus lack accessibility, locations

Parenting students and faculty on campus are a forgotten constituency. The voices of nursing mothers have been largely ignored by UCLA, heard only by student activist groups. Read more...

Photo: UCLA has 12 lactation rooms for breastfeeding mothers, only five of which are located on the main campus. This means it can be hard for parenting faculty to reach these rooms, such as the one pictured, in between classes. (Liz Ketcham/Daily Bruin)


Chris Busco: New voting plan apt but may disenfranchise students if poorly executed

UCLA students are ready to demand action on Capitol Hill after a politically tumultuous year and a half. The midterm elections give them a perfect opportunity to do so. Read more...

Photo: UCLA is making the Ackerman Grand Ballroom the centralized polling location for students. The change would streamline voter registration, but at the cost of long lines. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Sandra Wenceslao: UCLA should better publicize alternatives to DUO app in MFA process

Students now have yet another reason to be glued to their phones. UCLA recently tightened up its cybersecurity with the implementation of multifactor authentication. Signing in to MyUCLA, CCLE or any UCLA application now requires at least two forms of verification: the original password and then a mobile app push login request, a call or a texted code. Read more...

Photo: The Bruin Online office can help students seeking backup login options for logging into UCLA applications. The problem, however, is few know this, or about backup options in general. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)


Avvalzameer Bhatia: Without clear plan, USAC’s proposed international student rep lacks purpose

The undergraduate student government has typically been foreign to international students. It is no secret that international students have needs that are different from those of local students. Read more...

Photo: The proposed international student representative position by the Undergraduate Students Association Council must be defined by a specific set of goals in order to offer services needed on the UCLA campus. (Emma Skinner/Daily Bruin)



William Bleveans: Crowded USAC election field likely to contribute to debased discourse

This year’s crowded field of undergraduate student government candidates may put the 17-strong field of 2016’s Republican presidential primary to shame. Eight candidates are running for Undergraduate Students Association Council president this year: five as independents, one from an established campus political slate and two from untested slates. Read more...

Photo: (Shreya Mantri/Daily Bruin)


Aaron Julian: Social media users must exert more responsibility over data

Last week, all of Washington, D.C. and countless others honed in on a hearing in Congress to watch Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, get grilled for the company’s breaches of user data. Read more...

Photo: Facebook has been in hot water for Cambridge Analytica’s breach of users’ privacy. But it’s expected that the information we post on social media will be misused. (Creative Commons by Maurizio Pesce via Flickr)



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