Three years and four months sober, first-year psychology student Marissa Ericson still wakes up in the middle of the night from the same recurring dream of shooting up heroin, a drug she has never touched. Read more...
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Editorials, Opinion
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May 11, 12:19 am
Editorial: Graduate Students Association councilwide evaluation
This year’s Graduate Students Association officers were effective in their ability to work together, to reach out to a more diverse array of graduate students and to tackle several important student concerns. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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May 11, 12:16 am
Yiwei Sun: Napolitano must listen to undocumented students to earn trust
If the University of California held its national summit on undocumented students last week to improve its public image, the students in attendance made sure that effort did not go unchallenged. Read more...
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Community, Opinion
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May 8, 3:04 am
Submission: UCLA needs to publicly condemn acts of racism
On Wednesday, April 29, multiple self-made stickers were placed on UCLA’s Afrikan Student Union’s bulletin board outside of our office in Kerckhoff 322. On the stickers was an image of a police officer with the caption above stating “Stop whining and start following the goddamn law!” Other self-made stickers with similar messages have appeared throughout the university – specifically found in locations known to be safe and familiar to Black students, including near the Academic Advancement Program building that historically has worked to serve underserved, underrepresented students. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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May 8, 2:59 am
Shani Shahmoon: SCR 35 should not use broad definition of anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism has a broad impact on college campuses, but when it comes to defining the issue, broader is not better. In late March, Senate Concurrent Resolution 35 was introduced by several senators to approach anti-Semitism issues on University of California campuses. Read more...
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Opinion, Opinion Columns
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May 7, 1:18 am
Casey Kovarik: Water conservation efforts require off-campus expansion, education
Conservation efforts affect everyone, yet efforts to make changes are limited at UCLA. UCLA set goals to reduce water use on campus by 20 percent by 2020 based on 1999 to 2001 levels. Read more...
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Editorials, Opinion
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May 7, 1:15 am
Editorial: Administration responsible for addressing racist stickers in time
Administrators’ response to a recent targeted attack against a campus community has been disappointingly neutral and failed to take advantage of an opportunity to address problems concerning race on campus. Read more...