The Expo Line’s opening marks the end not only of UCLA’s transit isolation from the rest of the city, but of LA’s era of being made to put up with transit half-measures. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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June 23, 3:28 pm
Submission: As public transit moves forward, remember bus is no substitute for rail
Editorials, Opinion
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June 19, 9:52 pm
Editorial: Incentivized state funding fails to address dependence on nonresidents
State legislators passed a budget Wednesday incentivizing the University of California to stall the trend of increasing nonresident enrollment. The state will allocate an additional $18.5 million to the University if it enrolls an additional 2,500 California residents for the 2017-2018 academic year and institutes a formal enrollment cap on nonresident students. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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June 19, 9:49 pm
Submission: Lack of racial equity in justice system justifies protesters’ agendas
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...
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...
Photo: Harish Balasubramani/Daily Bruin
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...