UCLA Housing’s motto on paper is “Hospitality First!” In reality, though, it should be something along the lines of “Hospitality first – at an arbitrary price.” UCLA Housing proposed a housing rate hike earlier this year for graduate students living in university housing. Read more...
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February 9, 1:17 am
Editorial: UCOP audit uncovers well-run office, should not cut important programs
The University of California has long been synonymous with ballooning administrations and rampant bureaucracy. That imagery might be changing, though. A third-party review of the UC Office of the President found the office is run quite efficiently, but has the potential to cut up to half of its $883 million budget to reduce University expenditures. Read more...
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February 4, 11:23 pm
Editorial: USAC should use its power to establish programs under its own control
When student voters showed up to the polls in spring and decided which Bruins would have the honor of sitting on the undergraduate student government, they envisioned a council that would represent their needs and try to address the institutional challenges plaguing our campus. Read more...
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January 31, 10:53 pm
Editorial: Neighborhood Empowerment’s proposed ordinance disempowers Westwood
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...