Ask for a mile, UCLA will give an inch – especially when it comes to paying its graduate students a living wage. The Ucla4Cola movement has been asking for that mile for months. Read more...
Photo: Graduate students at UCLA are being supported in the short term with summer fellowships but must continue to receive financial support throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)
To our readers, The COVID-19 outbreak that has swept the nation over the past month has been devastating for us all to witness and work through. Read more...
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While UCLA students face endless exams, UCLA is being tested on its ability to protect students from a global pandemic. Coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, is a respiratory disease that can spread from human to human and has grown to more than 3,000 cases in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read more...
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UCLA prides itself on having a student population with diverse backgrounds and identities. But for students of Middle Eastern and North African descent, those lines dictating diversity are blurred. Read more...
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Imagine being asked how to navigate Boelter Hall if you can’t even find Royce Hall. That’s equivalent to the lofty challenge students at UCLA face when they arrive for New Student Orientation. Read more...
Photo: New Student Orientation won’t help answer first-generation college students’ worries about heading into a four-year university. A specialized orientation that can answer and alleviate the concerns of first-gen students can help ease their transition into college. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The Varsity Blues college admissions scandal of 2019 is the gift that keeps on giving. The stories and media hysteria surrounding the affluent parents who paid for their kids’ admission to prestigious universities were all anyone could talk about last year. Read more...
Photo: The University of California’s poor oversight allowed for unqualified students to enroll as student athletes, and even then, those students often failed to fulfill their obligation. Allowing these students to game the system took opportunities away from more deserving student-athletes nationwide.
An employer should not fire an employee for attempting to have an honest discussion. But that’s unlikely to be a reality than anything else for many graduate students and workers at the University of California. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student teaching assistants at UCLA are putting their careers on the line for better living wages, but the University of California would rather terminate their jobs than entertain an honest discussion. (Niveda Tennety/Assistant Photo editor)
