These past few years have been filled with protests and calls for justice from communities of color, especially the African-American community, regarding the ever-present racism in the criminal justice system. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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June 19, 9:49 pm
Submission: Lack of racial equity in justice system justifies protesters’ agendas
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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June 19, 9:47 pm
Arman Sharif: Checking ourselves before scapegoating others in post-Orlando America
The Bruin community was under national spotlight three weeks ago as we tried to heal from a lockdown and murder-suicide on our campus. Gun violence had officially come to our home, and we lamented becoming the 186th school shooting since Sandy Hook in 2012. Read more...
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Community, Opinion
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June 18, 1:00 pm
Submission: UCLA must do more to prepare for emergency situations
Since our last letter to the editor, the BruinAlert system has taken steps to improve its message content and has limited the frequency of its test alerts. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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June 5, 3:15 pm
Submission: Attacks on statistics lecturer Vivian Lew are based on misinformation
When UCLA statistics lecturer Vivian Lew received the alert of police activity in Engineering IV, she immediately thought of her students’ safety. There was an exam scheduled for her Statistics 20 students in a nearby building, so she hastily sent an email instructing them to ignore the scheduled location and avoid the area, reassuring them that they would have the opportunity to take the exam at a later time. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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June 5, 2:50 pm
Guillaume Kosmala: Social justice warriors fuel Trump, discredit left-leaning politics
Our campus is a snapshot of the future of this nation’s politics, and the tactics that may be employed by social justice warriors over the next decade were on full display at Tuesday’s protest against the event “Feminism is Cancer.” Bruin Republicans hosted Milo Yiannopoulos, technology editor for the conservative news and opinion website Breitbart.com, in the Broad Art Center, where they estimated that more than 400 supporters showed up to listen to him talk. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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June 5, 2:01 pm
Abhishek Shetty: Kang must reach more students if he wants to improve campus equity
If Vice Chancellor Jerry Kang was a presidential candidate, he would be John Kasich. They’re both voices of relative sanity among the politically divisive and unconstructive noise around them that we should all make an attempt to listen to, regardless of our own views. Read more...
Photo: (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo Editor)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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June 5, 1:59 pm
Jasmine Aquino: Perpetrators of sexual assault require more than suspension
Consequences for sexual assault incidents within the University of California have been as silent as my attacker was when I said “Never mind, I don’t want to do this. Read more...
Photo: (Kelly Brennan/Daily Bruin senior staff)