Rest in peace, free speech. We at UCLA hardly knew ye. This is the obituary that is being written: Free speech at this campus and the University of California is dead, verbally slaughtered in cold blood by oversensitive students, has been codified by cowardly administrators and is being replaced by an overbearing political correctness police – oh, and I forgot the trigger warning for depicting violence. Read more...
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The Daily Bruin recently included an editorial about the underutilization of the UCLA BruinAlert Mass Notification & Advisory System. We concur with opinions expressed and suggest if the system was deployed more consistently during campus emergencies, utilization would go up. Read more...
On Sunday, Alexander Coward blew the whistle on the shadowy practices of hiring and firing lecturers at the University of California. He issued a powerful statement after his year-to-year contract was not renewed by UC Berkeley’s mathematics department. Read more...
Falling behind in classes is a theme in the quarter system. Falling behind on a job search is just another casualty of the cramped time period. Read more...
I grew up in Los Angeles and always regarded UCLA as one of the best universities in the world. Even though I attended California State University, Northridge, for my bachelor’s degree, I still held UCLA in high regard. Read more...
Much of academic research presents itself as a neutral account of the world around us. Recently, however, a controversy in Washington, D.C., has sparked a debate about how money and finances can influence research. Read more...
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Last week, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Alpha Phi held what was undoubtedly a racist event, a near shot-for-shot remake of the film “Dear White People,” which, in a certain sad irony, was partially filmed on campus. Read more...
