When I ran for Undergraduate Students Association Council Financial Supports commissioner this year, I promised to expand the commission by taking it in a new direction, one that engages in both programming and advocacy. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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June 2, 3:29 pm
Submission: The 2017-18 FSC will focus on both programming and advocacy
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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June 1, 9:43 pm
Jonathan Friedland: Fewer stops would increase Santa Monica Big Blue Bus ridership
Taking the bus to Santa Monica from UCLA can take upward of 45 minutes, not including the walk to the Westwood bus stop. When students have the option of saving time while paying slightly more for an UberPool, it’s no wonder Santa Monica Big Blue Bus ridership has dropped 12 percent in the last fiscal year. Read more...
Photo: Ridership of the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus is declining. The Big Blue Bus needs to wait at fewer stops to speed up travel time, which would attract more students to use the buses (Daily Bruin file photo)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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June 1, 9:42 pm
Scott Bays: CSO van service can increase publicity through direct link on MyUCLA
UCLA students have “a safe means of transportation around campus during the evening hours.” They probably don’t know about it, though. The Community Service Officer Evening Van Service is a free ride service that provides UCLA students a safe way to get to the Hill and Westwood apartments between 6 and 11 p.m. Read more...
Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council Facilities Commission released an app in April to help students use the Community Service Officer Evening Van Service. The vans drop off students at destinations on campus or in Westwood. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Community, Opinion
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May 31, 11:10 pm
Submission: Armenian Students’ Association denounces hosting of The Young Turks
The Bruin Political Union and Campus Events Commission hosted POLITIFEST, a political discussion event, on campus May 22. It featured online commentary outlet The Young Turks’ Ana Kasparian along with several other students groups including Bruin Democrats, Bruins Elect, Bruin Libertarians, Bruin Republicans, the California Public Interest Research Group, Young Progressives Demanding Action and the undergraduate student government’s external vice president’s office. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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May 31, 11:10 pm
Arman Sharif: UC must assemble task force to interpret disaggregated ethnicity data
Campus communities that felt invisible in the past are finally seeing some change in how university data represents them. The University of California Information Center released enrollment and graduation data in April disaggregated by ethnicity. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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May 31, 12:18 am
Jacqueline Alvarez: UCLA must provide lecturers with same pay, same benefits as professors
The University of California is known to provide a world-class education to its students. Its lecturers, however, get little in return for holding up the university system’s awe-inspiring reputation. Read more...
Photo: (April Ding/Daily Bruin)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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May 31, 12:18 am
Abhishek Shetty: UCLA should look at undergraduate TAs as short-term fix to TA shortage
The instructed may soon become the instructors. At least, that’s what UCLA might look like if the UCLA Academic Senate was to take a stronger approach to the campus’ teaching assistants shortage. Read more...
Photo: (Juliette Le Saint/Daily Bruin)