We at the Undergraduate Students Association Council Office of the President would like to clear up some alternative facts by informing the student body about presidential appointments and about our ongoing work this year to better the system and create a more transparent process. Read more...

If you read Abhishek Shetty’s Jan. 26 expose on Proposition 13 reform, remember to file it as dishonest media. The Daily Bruin’s resident muckraker makes an astute observation regarding the allocation of commercial tax revenue – he argues Proposition 13 reform would only benefit local governments and not the state. Read more...

As a second-year student considering possible living options for this next school year, I find myself in the same situation as many of my fellow students: searching for an apartment. Read more...

In 1883, Chester A. Arthur, then-president of the United States, signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, which established the United States Civil Service Commission and created a meritocratic federal bureaucracy. Read more...

In order to hold the president and his Congress accountable for maintaining and extending to all Americans the rights enshrined in our Constitution and restoring trust in the political process, we Bruin Democrats pledge ourselves to a persistent and probing exercise of civil rights in the following ways: First, we will continue to help elect progressive candidates to local, state and federal offices. Read more...