Monday, June 16

Emily Merz: Niche transit systems could lower LAX congestion, increase LA’s ridership

New York. Chicago. San Francisco. Philadelphia. Boston. The densest cities in the U.S. have one thing in common: They all have well-developed public transportation. Then there’s Los Angeles, the second-largest city by population, and perhaps the slowest moving part of southern California. Read more...

Photo: The Los Angeles City Council recently approved a transit project at LAX that will help improve public transportation. However, the council must recognize that this new project may include complications. (Creative Commons photo by Jeff Turner via Flickr)


Clea Wurster: Promoting current efforts will help lessen gender disparity in philosophy department

Last quarter, I made my way across Dickson Court en route to a picturesque bastion of academia: Dodd Hall. I was headed deep within the building, where I would attend my lecture on 20th-century philosophy. Read more...

Photo: UCLA’s philosophy department has a stark gender disparity, with few women occupying faculty positions. The department has made efforts to address this; it just doesn’t publicize them. (Daily Bruin file photo)



Are you there, UCLA? It’s me, Mom: Lactation rooms on campus lack accessibility, locations

Parenting students and faculty on campus are a forgotten constituency. The voices of nursing mothers have been largely ignored by UCLA, heard only by student activist groups. Read more...

Photo: UCLA has 12 lactation rooms for breastfeeding mothers, only five of which are located on the main campus. This means it can be hard for parenting faculty to reach these rooms, such as the one pictured, in between classes. (Liz Ketcham/Daily Bruin)


Chris Busco: New voting plan apt but may disenfranchise students if poorly executed

UCLA students are ready to demand action on Capitol Hill after a politically tumultuous year and a half. The midterm elections give them a perfect opportunity to do so. Read more...

Photo: UCLA is making the Ackerman Grand Ballroom the centralized polling location for students. The change would streamline voter registration, but at the cost of long lines. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Sandra Wenceslao: UCLA should better publicize alternatives to DUO app in MFA process

Students now have yet another reason to be glued to their phones. UCLA recently tightened up its cybersecurity with the implementation of multifactor authentication. Signing in to MyUCLA, CCLE or any UCLA application now requires at least two forms of verification: the original password and then a mobile app push login request, a call or a texted code. Read more...

Photo: The Bruin Online office can help students seeking backup login options for logging into UCLA applications. The problem, however, is few know this, or about backup options in general. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)


Avvalzameer Bhatia: Without clear plan, USAC’s proposed international student rep lacks purpose

The undergraduate student government has typically been foreign to international students. It is no secret that international students have needs that are different from those of local students. Read more...

Photo: The proposed international student representative position by the Undergraduate Students Association Council must be defined by a specific set of goals in order to offer services needed on the UCLA campus. (Emma Skinner/Daily Bruin)



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