For the first time this quarter, the Office of Emergency Management successfully used BruinAlert to inform students of potential danger near campus. However, the BruinAlert sent to the student body Thursday regarding the alleged hostage situation on Tiverton Avenue came nearly an hour after the Daily Bruin had already confirmed and tweeted about the incident, and with little clarity. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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October 19, 9:19 am
Editorial: BruinAlert should update UCLA community as situations progress
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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October 19, 12:22 am
Arthur Wang: Free speech still alive at UCLA
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...
Photo: (Kimberly Ann Striegel/Daily Bruin)
Community, Opinion
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October 19, 12:19 am
Letter to the Editor: BruinAlert should be used more consistently during campus emergencies
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...
Community, Opinion
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October 16, 10:27 am
Submission: Firing of Berkeley lecturer signals need for UC worker solidarity
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...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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October 16, 10:25 am
One-on-one career center appointments should be used more efficiently
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...
Community, Opinion
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October 16, 10:22 am
Submission: UCLA fails to adequately support students with disabilities
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...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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October 15, 12:39 am
Travis Fife: UCLA should be more transparent in process for accepting donations
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...
Photo: (Kelly Brennan/Daily Bruin senior staff)