Monday, July 13

In the news:

Health care needs remedy

The longest grocery strike in U.S. history has ended, but workers still don’t have the quality health care they fought so hard for. Last week, the grocers and workers voted on a contract that ended the four-and-a-half- month strike, which cost the supermarkets over $1 billion dollars. Read more...


News Briefs

File-sharing policies changed The university administration is changing its policies regarding illegal file-sharing to include sanctions ranging from a limit on Internet usage to possible expulsion. Read more...


Editorial: Washington should not threaten college funds

California’s university students know as well as anyone how painful student fee increases can be. After huge fee hikes in the last year, an undergraduate education at one of the University of California’s campuses costs upwards of $5,000 annually ““ at a university whose architects imagined it being tuition-free. Read more...


Forum to review elections’ effects

The votes have been cast and the ballots counted, but the work has just begun for policy analysts trying to make sense of Tuesday’s election. With the high number of ballot initiatives in California, there was much to vote on and a lot of information to take in. Read more...


Few apartments contain recycling

Though recycling has become increasingly convenient for on-campus residents over the past decade, many students living in Westwood Village apartments remain without access to recycling services. Read more...



Outlook promising for school bond

The education bond proposition seemed to be headed for a narrow victory as of late Tuesday night, likely securing a $12.3 billion bond for cash-strapped educational institutions around the state to upgrade aging facilities. Read more...