Last year, a referendum was passed by UCLA’s undergraduate student body to add a transfer representative office to the Undergraduate Students Association Council. Additionally, in recent years advocacy for transfer students has grown, and the process for transfer students to integrate with the UCLA community has become more transparent. Read more...
Community
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January 20, 12:36 pm
Submission: Campus approach to transfer students overly patronizing
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 20, 12:35 pm
Aram Ghoogasian: USAC must be ethically consistent in Turkey divestment vote
One hundred years ago, my great-grandfather, a 9-year-old at the time, faced extermination at the hands of the Ottoman Empire because of his ethnicity. Today, the Republic of Turkey categorically denies that its predecessor state committed genocide against the Armenian people. Read more...
Photo: Members of the Turkish Cultural Club presented to the Undergraduate Students Association Council last week, asking them to vote against a resolution drafted by the Armenian Students’ Association to ask the University of California to divest from the Republic of Turkey. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 16, 10:35 am
Natalie Delgadillo: State needs to accept responsibility, contribute to UCRP
For 20 years, the University of California and the state legislature folded their hands in their lap and slowly allowed one of the major financial structures of the University to sink into insolvency. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 16, 10:35 am
Travis Fife: Additional funds necessary to close projected degree gap in California
Degrees are the bridge to California’s future, but we are starting to run out of planks. According to the Public Policy Institute of California, the state will need at least one million more college degree holders than currently projected by 2025. Read more...
Photo: (Kimberly Ann Striegel/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 15, 12:00 am
Chloe Lew: Nonresident students should not be used as financial crutches for UC
As a native Californian, I’ve always felt shamelessly privileged with the best – the beautiful West Coast, eternal sunshine, celebrity neighbors and about $23,000 less in tuition fees at the University of California than nonresidents. Read more...
Photo: Evan English/Daily Bruin
Editorials, Opinion
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January 15, 12:00 am
Editorial: JazzReggae Festival needs to plan for future financial sustainability
Of the past 12 years that UCLA has held JazzReggae on our campus, the large festival has run a deficit 10 times. Skyrocketing operational costs and decreasing ticket sales have meant that JazzReggae relies on unstable sources of funding to stay afloat, including student fees paid out to the Cultural Affairs Commission and double-dipping in the Undergraduate Students Association’s surplus funds. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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January 15, 12:00 am
Editorial: UCLA community should stand against Armenian genocide denial
Members of the Turkish Cultural Club tried to deny on Tuesday that the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians near the start of the 20th century was a genocide. Read more...