Getting a rug pulled from under you is pretty dangerous. It makes one wonder, though, why UCLA’s Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center, which oversees and provides medical care to UCLA’s students, continues to pull the rug from underneath its students. Read more...
Photo: (Cody Wilson/Daily Bruin)
Combating sexual misconduct on college campuses just became a hundred times harder. U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ misunderstanding of higher education has resulted in yet another attack on essential university guarantees – this time Title IX policies governing how universities handle cases of sexual violence and harassment. Read more...
For years, UCLA students lived with the fact that their Los Angeles city council member doesn’t care about their basic needs. They now also have to live with the fact that their elected representative thinks some of them are terrorists. Read more...
History is replete with accounts of ambitious political initiatives that have promised to address all manner of injustices, only to devolve into a “tragedy of good intentions.” Race-based affirmative action seems to be no exception to this historical trend. Read more...
Photo: California passed Proposition 209 in 1996, banning racial preference policies in state institutions. There is evidence to believe, however, that the University of California continues to use race-based affirmative action, despite its illegality and ineffectiveness as policy. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Photo: (Kyle Icban/Daily Bruin)
UCLA’s elevators are notorious for being unreliable. Even more unreliable, though, is the university’s elevator permit process. Roughly 61 percent of the 531 elevators on campus, including those in Rieber Hall, Sproul Landing and Ackerman Union, currently have expired permits. Read more...
Photo: (Mariam Arutyunyan/Daily Bruin)
What do you get when CNN’s Jim Acosta, President Donald Trump’s administration and a doctored video enter the national news media? A new low in our post-truth reality. Read more...
Photo: The internet has made it easier for false narratives to be spread, one example being the Trump administration’s decision to share a doctored video. It’s therefore important that students be given the tools to critically decipher the media. (Andy Bao/Daily Bruin)
