Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 9, 11:13 am
Opinion: Despite campus renovations being needed, UCLA should increase project transparency
This post was updated April 10 at 7:35 p.m. Finding open gym equipment to use or a place to study often requires a great deal of effort when you’re supposed to share with more than 30,000 of your peers. Read more...
Photo: Scaffolding sits near Powell Library during the building’s renovation for seismic improvements. (Myka Fromm/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 6, 2:31 pm
Uncomfortable Conversations: Embracing mixed-race heritage reveals complexity of racial, ethnic identity
This post was updated April 10 at 7:14 p.m. “Uncomfortable Conversations” is a series by Kirsten Brehmer exploring a broad range of topics that are hard to talk about, often go unspoken and need a space to be heard. Read more...
Photo: Nobuko Brehmer, columnist Kirsten Brehmer’s grandmother, poses for a portrait on a ship. (Courtesy of Kirsten Brehmer)
Editorials, Opinion
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April 6, 2:30 pm
Editorial: Attack on national parks show Trump administration’s disregard for federal workers
This post was updated April 8 at 8:00 p.m. As purple mountain majesties become overrun with litter and biodiversity disappears from sea to shining sea, President Donald Trump’s attack on the National Park Service in alignment with his vision of “efficiency” only diminishes America’s beauty. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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April 2, 6:28 pm
Op-ed: As Trump arrests international students, we must stand together, defend our rights
This post was updated April 3rd at 9:36 p.m. Editor’s note: The views expressed in this op-ed are those of the author’s alone and are not the official positions of UCLA, the campus, or any academic unit, department or program at UCLA. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 1, 3:38 pm
Opinion: In a world of mass tragedy, our generation must choose empathy
This post was updated April 3rd at 9:30 p.m. My phone lit up with a notification. “Is there anything I should take from your room?” This is the text I received from my mom as she tried to pack our lives out of the house my family has lived in since 1996 into four duffel bags. Read more...
Photo: Flames from the Palisades fire engulf a hillside near West Los Angeles on the evening of Jan. 7. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Editorials, Opinion
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March 21, 8:03 pm
Editorial: Trump’s moves to silence journalists creates a harmful, biased narrative
This post was updated March 30 at 9:57 p.m. Last month, the Trump administration announced it would choose which news outlets had access to the White House press pool – a move that upended over a century of precedent and marked yet another push for executive control by President Donald Trump. Read more...