One year ago, California stoners and casual marijuana users alike expected to have a bustling legal recreational weed market by now. Contrary to popular belief, though, the deal didn’t make the state into a forest of weed by 2019. Read more...
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Enrollment appointments are out. So now it’s time for students to obsess over what classes they can take to sleep in a little bit longer. Staying in bed isn’t really an option for commuter students. Read more...
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UCLA’s successful completion of its $4.2 billion fundraising goal came, naturally, with a glowing press release that venerated its major donors. The campaign, part of a trend of growing university donations, went toward cancer research, buying a historic theater in Westwood, expansion of the Anderson School of Management and the like. Read more...
Photo: Donors like David Geffen, who gave $200 million to UCLA’s school of medicine and has his name on many university structures, might seem like an alternative to state funding. But the reality is that these individuals are only pursuing their passion projects at universities. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Jan. 28 at 10:00 a.m. In the late 18th century, American revolutionaries proclaimed they would not abide taxation without representation. Today, UCLA students are protesting funding allocations without adequate representation. Read more...
Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council must ensure its use of student fees is transparent so students don’t lose faith in what remains of UCLA’s democratic system. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
When family weekend finally rolled around during my first quarter at UCLA, I was most excited to show off the amazing food on the Hill. Then again, I hadn’t considered my dad, who has celiac disease, would be poisoned within the first five minutes of eating in a dining hall. Read more...
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Is a school really committed to student-body diversity if it does not support diverse languages? UCLA seems reluctant to answer that question. Though the university has an 11.8 percent international student body and boasts thousands of classes in foreign languages, it does not have a multilingual writing center where tutors can help students develop their academic writing in a range of languages. Read more...
Photo: The Undergraduate Writing Center offers students help with their writing in English, but expanding to include multilingual resources would better serve UCLA’s diverse student body. Shown here are Lucy Flattery-Vickness, a second-year sociology student (left), and Mengxiao Nie, a third-year biochemistry student (right). (James Schaap/Daily Bruin)
Academic research is about the spread of knowledge. For publishing companies, it’s about how many more millions of dollars they can pad their profit margins with. Read more...
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