Wednesday, February 11

Keshav Tadimeti: Rest of system needs to learn from UC Irvine admissions debacle

United Airlines can rest easy: The University of California, Irvine has officially stolen the title of “organization most likely to kick people off its premises because of overbooked seating.” Two weeks ago, UCI withdrew admission for nearly 500 students for poor senior-year grades or not sending in their high school transcripts on time, according to a notice it sent to students two months before the start of the fall 2017 quarter. Read more...

Photo: The University of California Irvine’s admission debacle shows the volatility of the UC’s admission predictions and its troubling willingness to pull the rug from underneath students. (Creative commons photo by Common Good via Wikimedia Commons)


Abhishek Shetty: Newsom’s support of start-ups contradicts his campaign stance

If your spokesperson says that Davos, the annual World Economic Forum gathering of wealthy elites in Switzerland, is where you get many of your ideas from, you need to be as far away from politics as possible. Read more...

Photo: Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (left) claims he represents the common man. His records and close relationship with tech-industry elites, however, would say otherwise. (Creative Commons photo by Drew Altizer via Flickr)



Keshav Tadimeti: Funding is required for universal health care in California to work

It seems fitting that while Southern California is trying to battle raging wildfires, Sacramento is rank with the smell of cindered health care legislation. Last month, California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon suspended Senate Bill 562, a bill that would overhaul the state’s health care market to make way for a universal or single-payer health care system, under which private insurance is replaced by a government-covered health care program. Read more...

Photo: (Juliette Le Saint/Daily Bruin)






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