Knee-deep in end-of-quarter papers and exams, students may forgo completing course evaluations on MyUCLA to use every minute for sleep and work. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, the response rate for online course evaluations has averaged around 42 percent or lower since the beginning of the pilot – a level this board feels is much too low, especially compared to the average response rate of paper evaluations, which is about 75 to 85 percent. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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April 4, 12:20 am
Active participation in course evaluations would improve overall education
Opinion
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April 3, 2:22 am
Speaks Out
We asked students how they felt about the ongoing United States Supreme Court proceedings regarding Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act. Iris Colburn First-year, art history “It’s already so difficult in this society to find your true love, and to fall in love, and to live it out, and for some government to step in and say ‘hey you can’t do that’ is more than violating someone’s right – it’s violating the right to feel, or like putting a ban on feelings.” Sur Samtani Second-year, mathematics/economics “I think that gay marriage is a state issue, so I wouldn’t want the Supreme Court to impose gay marriage on a state or ban any state from supporting gay marriage. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 3, 12:59 am
Alexandra Tashman: LGBT issues not limited to marriage equality
Approximately 2.7 million Americans changed their profile pictures last week to some variation of the Human Rights Campaign’s red equal sign in support of same-sex marriage, according to estimates from Facebook. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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April 2, 12:00 am
Submission: Students encouraged to invest early to build wealth
For many college students, deciding how and where to invest seems like a task best left for the distant future. Any young person will admit that investing is a no-brainer in the long run, and many even dare to dream about what kinds of decisions they’ll make with their money years from now when they’re swimming in piles of it. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 2, 12:00 am
Maia Ferdman: UC divestment should be independent of US policy
When it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict, it seems that time runs in a loop. Read more...
Photo: Top: Students hold a banner advocating UC divestment from South Africa at UCLA’s commencement ceremony in June 1986. UC police later confiscated the banner.
Bottom: Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and U.S. Senator Alan Cranston joined student protestors at a Westwood Plaza press conference outside the UC Board of Regents meeting to denounce South African apartheid in 1986.
Community, Opinion
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April 1, 3:15 am
Commemorating Chavez: Exploring the leaders’ impact on UCLA
The original photo credit contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. Cesar Chavez was a prominent Latino activist and labor organizer. Read more...