What do you call a liberal arts education without art classes? You had better ask UCLA to find out. UCLA students not majoring in art don’t have much of a chance to enroll in art classes. Read more...
Photo: (Hanna Rashidi/Daily Bruin)
What do you call a liberal arts education without art classes? You had better ask UCLA to find out. UCLA students not majoring in art don’t have much of a chance to enroll in art classes. Read more...
Photo: (Hanna Rashidi/Daily Bruin)
If you haven’t recently considered going “off the grid” and deleting all social media accounts, you probably haven’t been paying attention to the news. Social media sites have been continually lambasted for information gathering and selling. Read more...
There weren’t many people for me to look up to when I grew up. Born and raised an Egyptian in California, I obviously had my parents, but I never really saw someone like me doing big things in science, politics or entertainment. Read more...
It’s a new quarter, and as Bruins head to their classes with high hopes for a productive spring quarter, many will open their lecture hall doors only to find a seat on the floor. Read more...
Photo: (Nicole Anisgard Parra/Daily Bruin)
This article was updated on April 5 at 5:36 p.m. The Interfraternity Council banned alcohol at in-house events through January and February in an attempt to address the environment of sexual assault fostered at frat parties. Read more...
Photo: The college party scene is dominated by fraternities that hold ragers and blast music late into the night. The conversation about rape culture in fraternities has revolved largely around the presence of alcohol, but that isn’t the problem – the problem is where it’s allowed and served. (Emma Skinner/Daily Bruin)
The #MeToo campaign is a visible depiction of how prevalent sexual harassment and sexual violence are in society. Those two words broke the silence surrounding sexual violence, with more than 12 million participants sharing the hashtag within 24 hours of it becoming viral in October. Read more...
Photo: UCLA has in place mandatory sexual assault prevention and awareness training for Greek life members and athletes. However, it’s questionable whether this training has actually worked. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin staff)
For 14 Nobel laureates, three Pulitzer Prize winners and a Fields Medalist, UCLA is home. For 2,000 nontenured faculty, however, it’s merely temporary housing. The number of nontenure academic faculty at UCLA, including adjunct faculty, lecturers, clinical professors and in-residence faculty, has increased by 46 percent since 2009, according to UCLA Academic Planning and Budget. Read more...
Photo: UCLA is increasingly relying on nontenured academic faculty as opposed to tenured faculty. While budget problems play a role in this, they don’t completely explain the phenomenon. (Daily Bruin file photo)