What were you doing on Nov. 3? I’m going to take a wild guess and say you were not in a voting booth casting a vote for the local Los Angeles County elections. Read more...
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November 5, 1:14 am
Ara Shirinian: City needs to reduce parking fines, revamp street-cleaning procedures
I get it, the street needs to be cleaned. What I don’t get is why I need a $70 ticket on days when a street-cleaning vehicle is nowhere in sight, apparently replaced with an army of parking officers. Read more...
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November 4, 12:24 am
Chris Campbell: UCLA should incorporate work experience into early graduation pathways
When public universities face a budget crunch, students typically brace themselves for spending cuts and tuition hikes. That’s what makes the deal reached by Gov. Jerry Brown and University of California President Janet Napolitano last May so refreshing. Read more...
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November 3, 12:24 am
Casey Kovarik: UCLA’s Depression Grand Challenge should focus more on aiding students
I guess we should have known; they call it a “research institution,” not a “student institution.” Recently, UCLA has launched a number of “Grand Challenge” projects designed to face some of the largest, most pressing problems of our time. Read more...
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November 1, 11:26 pm
Yiwei Sun: UCLA should increase transparency, student feedback in policymaking
When I read that AP and IB units are no longer eligible enrollment units, I was surprised at how fast the policy is going to effectuate and worried if I could still enroll in the classes I planned for the winter quarter. Read more...
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October 30, 12:58 am
Aram Ghoogasian: State Department’s anti-Semitism definition stifles free speech
A country over 7,500 miles away is once again making waves at the University of California. Even after a resolution calling on the UC to divest from companies doing business in occupied Palestine has come and gone, Israel has managed to remain at the center of campus discourse. Read more...
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October 30, 12:55 am
Shani Shahmoon: Assumed loyalty to Israel marginalizes Jewish student activists
No one is just one thing. While our identities define our perspectives, they don’t limit our interests. The meeting this past Monday, the University of California Statement of Principles Against Intolerance public forum, was an attempt by Avi Oved, UC Student Regent and a Jew, to draw attention to ongoing discrimination on UC campuses, but was ultimately turned into an “us versus you” conversation revolving around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Oved attempted to broaden the conversation around the resolution to include more minority groups and their specific experiences with discrimination, instead of focusing on whether to specifically define anti-Semitism. Read more...
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