Increasing diversity in light of a state ban on the use of race and ethnicity in university admissions has, for the better part of two decades, proved a difficult task at the University of California. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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October 22, 12:07 am
Ryan Nelson: Regents should increase student input, transparency
In math class, we’re generally taught to show our work. You can’t simply skip from the problem to the solution. Otherwise, the teacher would never know if the student understood the problem, cheated or just took a lucky guess. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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October 22, 12:00 am
Submission: USAC resolution represents paradigm shift
BY Sunny Singh On Oct. 14, UCLA’s Center for Middle East Development hosted an event called “At the Negotiation Table: What are the options? Israel, Palestine and the US Role – A Discussion with Ambassador Oded Eran.” Eran, the head of the Israeli negotiation team with the Palestinians in 1999, deputy director general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the former Israeli ambassador to the European Union and NATO, spoke about the history of negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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October 22, 12:00 am
Submission: USAC bill fails to consider Palestinian view
By Rahim Kurwa and Omar Zahzah This week the Undergraduate Students Association Council Internal Vice President Avi Oved is expected to present a bill to USAC that claims to seriously engage the Israeli-Palestinian impasse but instead fails to address several major questions. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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October 21, 1:54 am
Editorial: UCLA should not profit off the likeness of its athletes
A high-profile legal battle between the NCAA and several plaintiffs to decide if the athletics governing body illegally profited from player likenesses has again raised questions of what defines terms like “amateurism” in college athletics. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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October 21, 12:00 am
Maia Ferdman: Humanities majors’ post-grad fears are unwarranted
As a global studies student with an English minor, I shudder at my prospects after graduation. Friends, family and even people I’ve just met ask me how I am going to turn my degree into something useful – in other words, how I am going to make money. Read more...
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Opinion, Opinion Columns
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October 18, 12:00 am
Zoey Freedman: UC and worker union should come to compromise
Bitter contract negotiations between the University of California and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 are pushing into their second year. Read more...