Each year, the Daily Bruin evaluates each Undergraduate Students Association Council member’s term in office. This year, the Bruin’s editorial board has taken into consideration four major criteria in the evaluations: platform completion, the quality of the councilmembers’ platforms, how well they fulfilled their respective roles as mandated by the USAC bylaws and their commitment to transparency and accountability. Read more...
Opinion, Podcasts
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April 27, 12:01 am
No Offense, But: USAC Elections
There’s two candidates running to be your next USAC President. Danny Siegel is running under the Bruins United slate, and Denea Joseph is running under the Waves of Change slate. Read more...
Photo: Chris Campbell/Daily Bruin
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 27, 12:00 am
Blake Deal: Most protesters distort truth, play victim in self-important tirades
The UCLA campus was graced with live entertainment Thursday. Members of Revolution Club at UCLA chanted about killer cops while a shirtless man wearing Texas flag shorts exhorted students to pray Donald Trump into office near Bruin Plaza. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 27, 12:00 am
Keshav Tadimeti: Sexual assault awareness is important, but action is key
“Congratulations, you’ve been accepted into the Class of 2021! Prepare for a challenging year ahead, which includes losing your virginity to a rapist.” Under normal circumstances, your everyday college acceptance letter wouldn’t include that second sentence. Read more...
Photo: (Shelby Chan/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Cartoons, Opinion
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April 26, 4:10 pm
Editorial Cartoon: Lecturers make good pets
Lecturers at mercy. Read more...
Photo: (Zane Kaufmann/Bruin contributor)
Community, Opinion
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April 25, 9:59 pm
Submission: Empowering Clothesline Display violated by theft
Twenty years of T-shirts. Twenty years of truth. This was how we, the co-directors of Bruin Consent Coalition, formerly 7000 in Solidarity: A Campaign Against Sexual Assault, started a blog post we released at the beginning of last week – a concise commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Clothesline Display at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: Every shirt in the Clothesline Display at UCLA represented a survivor’s story in the aftermath of sexual and gender-based violence. A stolen shirt represents a survivor silenced and unsupported, and is unacceptable. (Anthony Tran/Daily Bruin)
Community, Opinion
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April 25, 9:58 pm
Submission: UC students should collaborate to tackle middle-income struggles
When Danny McElaney checked his BruinBill last year and saw that he had received $140 though California’s Middle Class Scholarship, he laughed. McElaney, a second-year economics student, has one working parent who makes too much to qualify for financial aid through the University of California, but far too little to cover the costs of education for Danny and his two siblings. Read more...