UCLA is a world class research university that receives hundreds of millions in research funding every year. You can imagine the irony when students realize they still can’t find research positions here. Read more...
Photo: (Kyle Icban/Daily Bruin)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 11, 11:11 pm
It’s high time UCLA cultivated its cannabis-related curriculum
The California marijuana market has been set ablaze. Too bad students will only get a whiff of it. Proposition 64, passed in November 2016, legalized recreational marijuana for adults over the age of 21, effectively allowing the state to reap billions of dollars in potential revenue. Read more...
Photo: The marijuana industry is blooming, and it’s likely many of UCLA’s students are interested in pursuing careers relating to the newly legalized plant. The university should create more opportunities for students to learn about and prepare to work with cannabis. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 11, 2:09 am
In a modern Westwood, neighborhood opposition to The Agora relies on flawed logic
This town isn’t big enough for all of us. But that hasn’t stopped the members of Little Holmby in their fight against commonsense housing density – and also common sense. Read more...
Photo: (Photo by Amy Dixon/Photo editor, photo illustration by Kyle Icban/Daily Bruin)
Community, Opinion
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April 11, 2:05 am
Op-ed: I once was endorsed to be the Daily Bruin’s editor in chief. I agree with staffers’ concerns.
For the past eight years, I have worked in big newsrooms like the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, and have learned a thing or two about office politics. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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April 10, 1:01 pm
Op-ed: AFSCME to go on strike to protest alleged worker intimidation, free speech issues
Over the last year, University of California workers have gone on strike three different times. These disruptions have been precipitated in part by the University’s failure to negotiate fair contracts with the workers who make our state’s third-largest employer run every day. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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April 10, 12:30 pm
Letter to our readers: Why Daily Bruin staffers are going on strike
To the Associated Students UCLA Communications Board, Jacob Preal, Abigail Goldman, Doria Deen and the readers of the Daily Bruin, We, the undersigned, are writing to express dissent and disappointment with the ASUCLA Communications Board’s vote to appoint an editor in chief against the staff’s recommendation. Read more...
Photo: (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
Community, Opinion
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April 10, 12:26 pm
Letter to the editor: Communications Board defends deliberation and decision of next editor in chief
To the undersigned members of UCLA student media, Thank you for the open letter we received regarding your concern over the appointment of the editor in chief for the Daily Bruin for the 2019-2020 academic year. Read more...