Nov. 8, 2016 is on track to be a historic day for Californians, and Donald Trump has nothing to do with it. This year, California voters will have the chance to decide on 17 state ballot measures that have the ability to legalize recreational marijuana, reduce prescription drug prices, require background checks on ammunition sales, ban the death penalty and more. Read more...
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I’m a Texas Aggie, class of 2003 and I am also a California native. I grew up in Southern California and always favored UCLA over USC (I was a band nerd, so I like the UCLA fight song better). Read more...
In the span of just a week, two University of California chancellors announced their resignations. UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi and UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks resigned after a slew of bad publicity, despite both spending thousands in discretionary funds hiring consultants to improve their images. Read more...
Imagine if you were told that funding for your university organization would be withheld based on your political beliefs. That would sound a lot like 1950s McCarthyism. Read more...
Bernie Sanders has mustered unprecedented support among college campuses in the 2016 Democratic primaries. Now that Sanders has lost, his supporters disagree on whether to vote for the Green Party or succumb to what many view as the lesser evil. Read more...
Thank you for publishing the recent editorial, “In the face of terror, UC should not curb study abroad.” We cannot speak for individual University of California campuses, but as the associate vice provost and executive director of the UC Education Abroad Program, a systemwide program serving all 10 UC campuses, I wish to clarify that with the exception of the suspension of our programming in Turkey for the 2016-2017 academic year, we currently have no plans to curb programs or halt development. Read more...
The Republican party’s platform on sex education is caught in a 1920s time warp. The Republican party is running on a platform that would establish same-sex classrooms and an abstinence curriculum in efforts to reduce teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Read more...
