Claudius E. Gaines III, a black UCLA facilities employee, is alleging he was a victim of racial profiling during an arrest made by university police officers on Aug. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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September 8, 6:00 am
Editorial: UCPD must recognize racial-profiling issue
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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September 8, 5:19 am
Aram Ghoogasian: Judicial Watch lawsuit lacks legal, moral basis
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” – unless they don’t have the proper paperwork and want to go to college. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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September 2, 12:00 am
Editorial: Minimum wage hike for Los Angeles is necessary, feasible
This is a fact: you cannot meet necessary living expenses on $9 per hour, the current minimum wage in Los Angeles. This past Labor Day, the holiday that pays tribute to the labor movement that achieved social and economic improvements for workers and their families, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a plan to raise the city’s minimum wage to $13.25 per hour over the next three years. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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September 2, 12:00 am
Editorial: ‘Yes means yes’ bill protects sexual assault survivors on campuses
This post was updated on September 4 at 12:56 a.m. Last week, the state Senate unanimously passed a bill that, if signed into law by Gov. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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September 2, 12:00 am
Travis Fife: Minerva Project reinvents classroom model, universities should take note
What’s really shocking about universities isn’t how much they’ve changed. It’s how much they’ve stayed the same. Think about the typical classroom: There’s a professor lecturing, a group of students taking notes and maybe a graduate student or two there helping the professor. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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August 25, 2:36 am
Ryan Nelson: Public transit improvements can only come with shift in attitude
For more than two years, in an attempt that would’ve made the Simpsons proud, the city of Beverly Hills has argued that L.A. Metro should scrap the Purple Line extension, a Westside-to-downtown subway extension that will run underneath Wilshire Boulevard in favor of a comprehensive, above-ground monorail system, citing faulty scientific research and a lack of demand. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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August 25, 2:35 am
Editorial: Efforts at decriminalization of youth benefit state universities
It doesn’t make sense to arrest and cite the students you’re trying to send to college – and Los Angeles Unified School District officials are increasingly realizing that. Read more...