It’s not the textbooks that are weighing down UCLA students. It’s their costs. UCLA students spend an average of $1,000 every year on textbooks and other course materials. Read more...
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January 11, 4:37 pm
William Zou: Continuing turf rebate program will improve LA’s sustainability
Imagine the vast landscapes that Los Angeles’ water supply flows through. Water from the Colorado River races past the Eagle Mountains, bends into the Mojave Desert and snakes through the Imperial Valley. Read more...
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January 11, 12:58 am
Chris Busco: California marijuana laws are convoluted, designed to harm small businesses
California rang in the new year by opening the world’s largest marijuana economy. Too bad the only people getting high off the market will be those who can afford to navigate the botched patchwork of regulations and large fees the state government has in store for them. Read more...
Photo: California’s proposed marijuana regulations would benefit large corporate entities and hurt smaller industry competitors, potentially pushing the latter into the black market. (Daily Bruin file photo)
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January 9, 11:04 pm
Abhishek Shetty: Ackerman’s aesthetic renovations should not be priority given projected losses
Amid million-dollar losses, increasing labor costs and faltering book sales, you wouldn’t expect Associated Students UCLA to be spending money on renovating bathroom tiles to aesthetically match the outside flooring. Read more...
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December 10, 11:48 pm
Mariah Furtek: UCLA needs to consider programs to help food-insecure students
While some Bruins will spend the weeks after the holidays doing extra sets of crunches in the hopes of getting their jeans to fit again after some scrumptious, festive food, other students will spend their time crunching numbers to see how they’ll afford their next meal. Read more...
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December 10, 11:42 pm
Scott Bays: Bike share program must offer new incentives, improve campaign strategy
John F. Kennedy once mused,“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.” Evidently, many Bruins agree. UCLA Transportation launched its Bruin Bike Share program in October to allow the UCLA community to rent bikes for annual, monthly or single-time fees. Read more...
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December 4, 1:33 am
Sandra Wenceslao: UCLA should create multiyear financial aid program to lower student stress
Excitement, cheers, tears of joy. Maybe even some coherent sentences. These are typically prospective students’ initial reactions to finding out they’ve been accepted to UCLA. But reality kicks in later, when these students have to figure out how to pay tuition and housing costs, and when they must work up the courage to open their first financial aid package and find out if they’ll be paying out of pocket or taking out loans. Read more...