UCLA was unprepared when a murder-suicide in June led people to believe there was an active shooter on campus. Instructors and students couldn’t lock doors, weren’t sure what to do and some ended up spreading false information. Read more...

Mobile apps can’t solve everything. And an undergraduate student government commission’s proposal to connect a late-night van service to students’ phones shows that technology can make problem-solving more complicated than it has to be, especially when there’s uncertainty about what the problem actually is. Read more...

Students are entitled to their free speech, but it’s unbefitting of them to use that freedom to propagate false facts. Last week, the Bruin Republicans student group held an event titled, “Sabine Durden: An Illegal Immigrant Killed My Child,” featuring a mother whose son was killed in a drunken driving car accident by an undocumented immigrant. Read more...

Scandals and their impact on the campus community should outlive the news cycle. Last October, members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Alpha Phi sorority dressed in baggy clothes, plumped lips and padded bottoms for a “Kanye Western”-themed raid. Read more...

Los Angeles County hasn’t forgotten about the superbug. The county’s health officials said Thursday that the county will require hospitals to report any infections caused by a superbug, a lethal class of a drug-resistant bacteria. Read more...

Expanding job protections to new parents can be a controversial issue, especially when applied to small businesses. But it’s still important that as many workers as possible have the job security they need, so when the California Legislature writes a law about it, it should be as inclusive as possible. Read more...