In a time when students are looking to become more involved in local government, it seems the system wants to keep them out. Los Angeles’ Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, which oversees neighborhood councils, proposed an ordinance change earlier this year that could lengthen the time it takes for neighborhood councils to split apart. Read more...
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January 28, 11:12 pm
Editorial: UCLA should monitor management after slew of administrative failures
UCLA has had a rocky track record this past year: It made numerous errors when dealing with the Skirball fire and tried covering up problems in its Lab School. Read more...
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January 24, 11:51 pm
Editorial: USAC should allocate fees UCLA once misplaced to its endowment
The undergraduate student government has struck gold. And it’s all thanks to a series of accounting mistakes. Over the past three years, UCLA collected the Bruin Bash and the Arts Restoring Community fees, but did not distribute the collected sums to the Undergraduate Students Association Council. Read more...
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January 21, 10:10 pm
Editorial: State needs to allocate stable funding for UC to prevent tuition hike
Nothing is more certain for University of California students than tuition hikes. Almost every year, students watch as UC administrators and state politicians scramble to negotiate state funding to avoid raising tuition fees. Read more...
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January 18, 7:23 pm
Editorial: Ban on in-house fraternity events with alcohol must be made permanent
This post was updated Jan. 18 at 9:43 p.m. Fraternity parties are a fixture of college life. And sexual violence is a fixture of fraternity parties. Read more...
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January 16, 6:15 am
Editorial: UCLA needs transparency if it wants to keep parents’ trust, support
UCLA rang in the new year by keeping up with an old tradition: angering parents who entrust the university to take care of their children. Last month, the university administration placed Norma Silva, the principal of the UCLA Lab School, which enrolls pre-K through sixth grade students and is operated by the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, on leave with little explanation to the school’s community. Read more...
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January 11, 12:57 am
Editorial: Allowing lawmakers to remove regents opens UC to political pressure
When the University of California Board of Regents was created 150 years ago, legislators presciently wrote that the regents were meant to keep the UC independent of political influence. Read more...