Editor’s note: The following is an open letter from the UCLA Graduate Students Association to University of California President Janet Napolitano. Dear President Napolitano, As the organization representing over 12,000 graduate and professional students studying here at UCLA, we, the Graduate Students Association of UCLA, are writing to highlight the crisis the University of California is facing with respect to the competitiveness of graduate student support.The long-term disinvestment in graduate student support – the amount we receive for our work as teaching assistants, research assistants and when we are on fellowship – relative to our peer institutions poses serious challenges to the ability of the UC to retain its current graduate students and threatens its ability to recruit the best graduate students in the future. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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November 12, 12:37 am
Natalie Delgadillo: USAC should weigh surplus funds early on
Most students know what it feels like to crack open a textbook for the first time the day before a midterm – the sinking feeling in your stomach, the rising panic as you realize just how much you have to cram in your head before morning. Read more...
Opinion
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November 8, 12:00 am
Letter to the Editor: Students for Justice in Palestine maintain need for open debate
BY RAHIM KURWA, VICE PRESIDENT OF STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE AND REEM SULEIMAN, MEMBER OF STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE The recent submission “Refusing dialogue hinders progress in conflict resolution” refers to a meeting between Students for Justice in Palestine members and Hillel’s Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, but misrepresents the meeting as a change in course from SJP’s refusal to engage in dialogue without ground rules. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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November 8, 12:00 am
Maia Ferdman: Public debates distract from progress on Israeli-Palestinian issue
Israeli and Palestinian advocates on campus are not camera shy. Much of the conversation about the conflict at UCLA manifests in a very public manner. Each year, the Daily Bruin receives numerous submissions from active students, each followed by a flurry of online comments. Read more...
Photo: Jiayin Guo, a graduate student in mathematics and Dana Saifan, the president of Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA and a fourth-year psychology student speak behind the mock “apartheid wall” put up in Bruin Plaza which represents the controversial separation barrier that borders the West Bank.
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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November 7, 12:25 am
Charley Guptill: Older students deserve a more inclusive Bruin experience
Studying at UCLA is a young person’s game. The quintessential UCLA student in most people’s minds will invariably be someone aged 18 to 22. Joe Bruin, certainly, cannot be much older than 19. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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November 7, 12:02 am
Editorial: USAC needs to face poor handling of stipend increases
Governance becomes a lot easier when elected representatives sidestep discussion of the repercussions that result from their unethical decisions. Undergraduate Students Association Council members have repeated pleas to move past the issue of stipend increases. Read more...