UCLA rang in the new year by keeping up with an old tradition: angering parents who entrust the university to take care of their children. Last month, the university administration placed Norma Silva, the principal of the UCLA Lab School, which enrolls pre-K through sixth grade students and is operated by the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, on leave with little explanation to the school’s community. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 11, 9:33 pm
Selby Kia: UCLA must advocate for cost-effective solutions to textbooks
It’s not the textbooks that are weighing down UCLA students. It’s their costs. UCLA students spend an average of $1,000 every year on textbooks and other course materials. Read more...
Photo: (Thomas Tran/Daily Bruin)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 11, 4:37 pm
William Zou: Continuing turf rebate program will improve LA’s sustainability
Imagine the vast landscapes that Los Angeles’ water supply flows through. Water from the Colorado River races past the Eagle Mountains, bends into the Mojave Desert and snakes through the Imperial Valley. Read more...
Photo: (Nicole Anisgard Parra/Daily Bruin)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 11, 12:58 am
Chris Busco: California marijuana laws are convoluted, designed to harm small businesses
California rang in the new year by opening the world’s largest marijuana economy. Too bad the only people getting high off the market will be those who can afford to navigate the botched patchwork of regulations and large fees the state government has in store for them. Read more...
Photo: California’s proposed marijuana regulations would benefit large corporate entities and hurt smaller industry competitors, potentially pushing the latter into the black market. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Editorials, Opinion
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January 11, 12:57 am
Editorial: Allowing lawmakers to remove regents opens UC to political pressure
When the University of California Board of Regents was created 150 years ago, legislators presciently wrote that the regents were meant to keep the UC independent of political influence. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 9, 11:04 pm
Abhishek Shetty: Ackerman’s aesthetic renovations should not be priority given projected losses
Amid million-dollar losses, increasing labor costs and faltering book sales, you wouldn’t expect Associated Students UCLA to be spending money on renovating bathroom tiles to aesthetically match the outside flooring. Read more...
Photo: (Farida Saleh/Daily Bruin)
Opinion
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January 9, 11:01 pm
Submission: UCLA’s response to fire was inadequate, endangered students, staff
Students watched their phones intensely the week before fall-quarter finals, looking to a stream of sporadic BruinAlerts to gauge the safety of the campus amid the raging Skirball fire. Read more...