To The Editor: This letter responds to the feature story titled “Lights, Camera, Inaction,” published by the Daily Bruin on Feb. 1. The article is promoted as an “Enterprise investigation” that “meets Daily Bruin policy standards” while alleging a variety of failings attributed to the UCLA department of Film, Television and Digital Media over the past several years. Read more...
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January 29, 1:04 pm
Op-ed: UCPD should not be responsible for mental health care responses
It is long overdue for UCLA to divest from UCPD and invest in the community. After the powerful Black Lives Matter uprisings in June, Chancellor Gene Block and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emily Carter, released a statement in response to protests, claiming: “UCLA will employ trained mental health professionals who can respond to mental health emergencies, either to support police officers on these calls or — if appropriate — to respond in place of officers. Read more...
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January 19, 5:27 pm
Op-ed: USAC EVP office calls for a California budget more committed to student needs
Project Students for Progress in Employee Language Learning, Bruin Excellence and Student Transformation Grant Program and First To Go were just a handful of UCLA community programs whose operating budgets were slashed last year when the California Legislature stared down a $54 billion COVID-19-induced deficit. Read more...
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January 16, 2:38 pm
Op-ed: Acknowledging Indigenous peoples is only first step, meaningful action required
Last year, we witnessed the incredible impact Native Nations can have in electoral politics and celebrated the largest number of Native people elected to public office in history. Read more...
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January 5, 4:37 pm
Op-ed: School of Education must involve all students in training on race and racism
Dec. 7, 2020, marked the last synchronous class meeting for Tyrone Howard’s Education 275: “Race and Education” class, a graduate-level seminar in the Urban Schooling division of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Read more...
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December 8, 7:40 pm
Op-ed: UCLA must divest from systems of policing, adopt new model for safety and justice
An open letter to UCLA administration: Dec. 1 marked six months since LAPD, aided and abetted by UCLA, turned Jackie Robinson Stadium into a field jail to detain hundreds of protesters arrested for curfew violations during the George Floyd uprisings in Los Angeles. Read more...
Photo: Members of the Divest/Invest UCLA Faculty Collective are calling for accountability and responsibility on behalf of UCLA administration for the June detention of protestors at Jackie Robinson Stadium in efforts to promote racial justice and minimize institutional complicity. (Courtesy of Divest/Invest UCLA Faculty Collective)
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November 27, 6:01 pm
Op-ed: Americans should remember and honor Native American roots every day
This post was updated Nov. 29 at 3:20 p.m. Nov. 27 is Native American Heritage Day. The first American Indian Day was celebrated in New York in May of 1916. Read more...