After four or five long years of pulling all-nighters, waking up for 8 a.m. classes and telling yourself you’ll attend office hours, you’re finally ready to enter the next phase in your life and actualize your dreams, using what you learned in college. Read more...
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This year’s crowded field of undergraduate student government candidates may put the 17-strong field of 2016’s Republican presidential primary to shame. Eight candidates are running for Undergraduate Students Association Council president this year: five as independents, one from an established campus political slate and two from untested slates. Read more...
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Last week, all of Washington, D.C. and countless others honed in on a hearing in Congress to watch Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, get grilled for the company’s breaches of user data. Read more...
Photo: Facebook has been in hot water for Cambridge Analytica’s breach of users’ privacy. But it’s expected that the information we post on social media will be misused. (Creative Commons by Maurizio Pesce via Flickr)
University honors programs are known for offering rigorous coursework that requires students be fiercely dedicated to applying themselves academically. UCLA’s honors courses, however, aren’t just difficult to complete, they are difficult to get into. Read more...
Photo: UCLA must encourage departments to increase the number of honors courses provided in order to make the Honors Collegium program more accessible. (Daily Bruin file photo)
What do you call a liberal arts education without art classes? You had better ask UCLA to find out. UCLA students not majoring in art don’t have much of a chance to enroll in art classes. Read more...
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If you haven’t recently considered going “off the grid” and deleting all social media accounts, you probably haven’t been paying attention to the news. Social media sites have been continually lambasted for information gathering and selling. Read more...
There weren’t many people for me to look up to when I grew up. Born and raised an Egyptian in California, I obviously had my parents, but I never really saw someone like me doing big things in science, politics or entertainment. Read more...
