Think of Bruinwalk.com, UCLA students’ preferred platform for reviewing classes and instructors, like Yelp, and the class you’re thinking of taking as an overpriced California burrito. Read more...
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October 10, 12:03 am
Keshav Tadimeti: UC tuition increase will fund faculty pensions, but with good reason
Students, I hate to break it to you, but the University of California could raise tuition in 2018 to pay for people’s retirement benefits. You might want to hold off on the protest signs, though. Read more...
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October 9, 12:54 am
Abhishek Shetty: USAC must update online minutes, guidelines to maintain transparency
Maintaining an up-to-date website and uploading meeting documents regularly are simple and obvious steps any student government should follow. But unfortunately, UCLA’s undergraduate student government has treated them as an afterthought for years. Read more...
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October 5, 10:28 pm
Sandra Wenceslao: Enlisting more staff could make Volunteer Day better
Children all over Los Angeles learn in schools adorned with bright murals that UCLA students have painted on hot, sunny Volunteer Days year after year. UCLA’s annual Volunteer Day was created nine years ago as a chancellor’s initiative, said Ashley Love-Smith, interim director of the UCLA Volunteer Center. Read more...
Photo: This year, the Volunteer Center created a registration process for students and reduced the number of sites Bruins will be shuttled to on Volunteer Day. Enlisting more staff for the program will help the center better accommodate larger iterations of Volunteer Day in the future. (Daily Bruin file photo)
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October 5, 9:39 pm
William Bleveans: UCLA should mandate service hours, expand Volunteer Day
Ask any New Student Advisor and they’ll tell you service is one of the three pillars of the university and a crucial element of UCLA’s mission. Read more...
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October 5, 8:28 am
Chris Busco: UCLA should host a variety of speakers to debate contested issues
Liberal and conservative, Globalist and nationalist, anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights. The nation is more divided now than before, and all our ideological debates boil down to the same general principal – us versus them. Read more...
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October 3, 10:50 pm
Ankita Nair: UCLA should improve shadowing opportunities for pre-med students
Admission into a top-20 ranked medical school is notoriously difficult – acceptance rates hover around 1.8 percent to 3.9 percent. But for many pre-med students at UCLA, gaining access to student shadowing opportunities can seem just as challenging. Read more...