As UCLA students and future leaders, lawyers, doctors and advocates, we have successfully put pressure on our own university to amend its patenting and licensing policies to ensure that publicly funded innovations developed on our campus are responsibly sold to the public. Read more...
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February 9, 1:44 pm
Op-ed: UCLA continues to disregard student safety following school threat
Last week, we endured what many of us fear the most: the threat of a mass shooting on a college campus. Many of us grew up hearing about the Las Vegas massacre, the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School – each bringing their own feelings of horror and sorrow at the lives that were lost without cause. Read more...
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January 24, 4:58 pm
Op-ed: TFT must implement casting reform to better on-stage representation of disability
Growing up as a disabled person knowing no other disabled people, I looked to my local children’s theater group as a refuge. This was my community – an accepting, inclusive, artistic one that didn’t care that I was disabled. Read more...
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January 8, 1:16 pm
Op-ed: Black women excel in academics, yet face imposter syndrome
“Are you a student here? What are you doing here?” Those were the first words I received at 10:30 a.m. on a Thursday when I walked into the building for my class last December. Read more...
Photo: Ph.D. student Sonya Brooks stands outside Royce Hall upon graduating UCLA in 2019. In this column, Brooks explores the struggles and triumphs she’s faced as a Black woman in academia – and shares her commitment to supporting Black girls everywhere. (Courtesy of Sonya Brooks)
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November 30, 2:48 pm
Op-ed: UCLA Dining Services works diligently on solutions to staffing shortage
This quarter has brought about tremendous strides in terms of our long-awaited return to campus, but it also has brought about new challenges for the UCLA dining program that have required us to be creative with our resources. Read more...
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November 25, 10:58 pm
Op-ed: Untold stories of urban Indigenous women need to be heard
This post was updated Nov. 29 at 9:45 a.m. The experiences of urban Indigenous communities remain understudied and misunderstood. I want to tell the story about the importance of Indigenous women in postwar Detroit. Read more...
Photo: UCLA assistant professor Kyle Mays shares the story of his great-grandmother Esther Shawboose Mays, a fierce advocate for Indigenous peoples in Detroit. (Courtesy of Kyle Mays. Illustration by Liseth Amaya.)
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November 10, 9:34 pm
Letter to the editor: Classrooms should allow different learning strategies, flexible screen policies
Alexandra Kaiser’s column “Opinion: Limiting technology in the classroom stunts academic growth” brought up many valid points on how professors and students at UCLA feel about laptop policies in the classroom. Read more...