The county public health office calls and says your campus of more than 100,000 might be the site of infection for a disease that can result in pneumonia, brain damage, deafness and death. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 30, 10:10 pm
Convoluted club applications inhibit ability of students to join organizations
When incoming freshmen arrive at UCLA for Bruin Day, they are immediately told there are more than 1,000 clubs they can join. What they aren’t told is they probably won’t get into most of them. Read more...
Photo: Many student clubs employ confusing application processes that deter students from joining. That wouldn’t happen if the SOLE Office took an active role in standardizing club recruitment. (Joe Akira/Daily Bruin staff)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 30, 10:08 pm
Arbitrary definitions and quotas are barring businesses that would boom in Westwood
Westwood’s casual drinkers can rest easy: Their new choices for a relaxed, inviting destination are a rowdy tavern and a bar that blasts music from the early 2000s. Read more...
Photo: (Kycle Icban/Daily Bruin)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 29, 10:55 pm
Updating traditional Western canon could support a more holistic view of humanities
“Stand on the shoulders of giants,” they say. If only those shoulders weren’t always attached to dead white men. The Western canon – which is the basis for a range of humanities courses – refers to a collection of vital works throughout history. Read more...
Photo: The Western canon, a collection of classical works that forms of the basis of the humanities, is mostly the product of dead, white, European men. It’s time UCLA diversified its teachings. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 29, 10:52 pm
Poor correlation between course load and unit count causes confusion among students
UCLA is a place where numbers don’t work outside of a math class. It’s a place where four equals seven and five equals three. When it comes to course units, that is. Read more...
Opinion, Podcasts
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April 26, 3:05 pm
No Offense, But: USAC elections
“No Offense, But” is back for another week, this time to answer a question on many students’ minds: What is going on with the Undergraduate Students Association Council? Read more...
Community, Opinion
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April 26, 12:45 pm
Op-ed: UC tuition hikes hurt prospective out-of-state and international students
“Education is our passport to the future,” Malcolm X famously said. Similarly, George Washington Carver remarked that education is a key to “unlock the golden door of freedom.” Ostensibly, without education, one has no future and no prospects to freedom. Read more...