“The time is always ripe to do right,” Chancellor Gene Block quoted in his Martin Luther King Jr. Day email statement to students. Yet, ongoing delays of the promised Black Resource Center on campus serve to seriously undermine the credibility of Block’s message. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 21, 11:31 am
Opinion: Gov. Newsom’s plan to reopen schools raises student safety concerns
This post was updated Jan. 24 at 8:21 p.m. Money can buy school supplies and faster internet for students, but it can’t buy them protection from COVID-19. Read more...
Photo: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s multibillion-dollar proposal to incentivize schools to return to in-person instruction amid the state’s slow vaccine rollout contributes to inequity. The money should instead go to schools struggling to continue remote learning. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin staff)
Community, Opinion
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January 19, 5:27 pm
Op-ed: USAC EVP office calls for a California budget more committed to student needs
Project Students for Progress in Employee Language Learning, Bruin Excellence and Student Transformation Grant Program and First To Go were just a handful of UCLA community programs whose operating budgets were slashed last year when the California Legislature stared down a $54 billion COVID-19-induced deficit. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 18, 3:50 pm
Opinion: UCLA administrators have failed to provide for students during the pandemic
Spring 2020, fall 2020, winter 2021 and now spring 2021– the end of this school year will mark four entire quarters of mostly remote learning at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: The announcement of spring quarter being mostly remote is an unfortunate but unavoidable consequence of the pandemic. However, the support UCLA offers its students during this difficult time is something that the administration can control but for some reason has chosen not to. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
Community, Opinion
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January 16, 2:38 pm
Op-ed: Acknowledging Indigenous peoples is only first step, meaningful action required
Last year, we witnessed the incredible impact Native Nations can have in electoral politics and celebrated the largest number of Native people elected to public office in history. Read more...