I remember tearing up when I found out I was accepted into the Daily Bruin. It was fall quarter of my first year on campus, and I had spent the last few weeks of summer stressing about my application. Read more...
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June 9, 1:59 am
Pravin Visakan: Upcoming California governor should address grid integration in climate legislation
In an era where certain federal authorities have been known to dismiss climate change as a Chinese hoax, Californian officials and legislators have made tireless promises to care for and protect the environment. Read more...
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June 9, 1:57 am
Are you there, UCLA? It’s me, Mom: UCLA should follow other UCs’ leads on supporting students with dependents
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...
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June 6, 11:26 pm
Tabatha Lewis: LAPD’s predictive algorithm is inaccurate, dehumanizes offenders
Steven Spielberg, in his 2002 movie “The Minority Report,” played out the hypothetical in which an organization can predict crimes before they happen. The Los Angeles Police Department is about 10 years late to the game, and it looks like it’s taking the department more than 145 minutes to see why trying to predict crime is an inherently problematic strategy. Read more...
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June 3, 3:14 pm
Atomic City: UC’s history with Los Alamos lab, bid to maintain control lacks transparency
Bruins may think that the state of nuclear weapons in the world is a far-removed topic that doesn’t affect them. That’s far from the case. Since the creation of nuclear weapons themselves, the University of California has had a direct stake in the management of U.S. Read more...
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May 31, 8:42 pm
Avvalzameer Bhatia: UCLA should classify economics as a science program, not an arts one
UCLA seems to believe that taking cumbersome calculus- and statistics-based classes every quarter qualifies as an arts degree. Economics and business economics are considered Bachelor of Arts degree programs, even though the two majors put a heavy emphasis on mathematics. Read more...
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May 30, 10:25 pm
Rushabh Nagori: Decision to replace financial actuarial math program’s lecturers will hurt students
Imagine you pay thousands of dollars to attend one of the world’s best public universities. You come in with the reasonable expectation that the university will do everything in its power to make you employable once you graduate – including hiring faculty who understand the industry you’re about to enter and can prepare you for the professional world. Read more...
Photo: The financial actuarial mathematics program offered an industry-focused, pre-professional education to students. The math department’s changes to the program tarnish those qualities. (Daily Bruin file photo)