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April 11, 11:24 pm
UCLA should make research more accessible for its undergraduates
UCLA is a world class research university that receives hundreds of millions in research funding every year. You can imagine the irony when students realize they still can’t find research positions here. Read more...
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April 11, 11:11 pm
It’s high time UCLA cultivated its cannabis-related curriculum
The California marijuana market has been set ablaze. Too bad students will only get a whiff of it. Proposition 64, passed in November 2016, legalized recreational marijuana for adults over the age of 21, effectively allowing the state to reap billions of dollars in potential revenue. Read more...
Photo: The marijuana industry is blooming, and it’s likely many of UCLA’s students are interested in pursuing careers relating to the newly legalized plant. The university should create more opportunities for students to learn about and prepare to work with cannabis. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
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April 11, 2:09 am
In a modern Westwood, neighborhood opposition to The Agora relies on flawed logic
This town isn’t big enough for all of us. But that hasn’t stopped the members of Little Holmby in their fight against commonsense housing density – and also common sense. Read more...
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April 8, 10:45 pm
2019 GSA candidate endorsement: Shrinidhi Balasubramanian for vice president of academic affairs
Graduate students are at the heart of UCLA’s academics. That’s worryingly easy to forget – something graduate students themselves might forget given the university’s treatment of them. Read more...
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April 8, 10:42 pm
2019 GSA candidate endorsement: Paul Nesterenko for vice president of internal affairs
Everyone can have ideas – but it’s a matter of implementing them. Paul Nesterenko is the only candidate running for the Graduate Students Association vice president of internal affairs seat. Read more...
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April 7, 10:30 pm
Revamping class planning process would help reduce student stress, confusion
It’s straight out of the 1990s: Websites are still poorly formatted globs of text and information is scattered across the internet. Universities are slowly moving onto the web, but finding what you need is like looking for a quarter of a needle in a haystack. Read more...
Photo: UCLA must improve its course descriptions and its class planner so that students aren’t forced to guess when the classes they want to take will be next available. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)