Thursday, February 12

Guillaume Kosmala: Professors should release exams to test bank, create level playing field

UCLA is a university where a select few are granted an academic advantage based on whether or not they have joined organizations that cost hundreds of dollars a quarter, that have a national history of flagrant racism or that require already high minimum GPAs to join. Read more...

Photo: The Student Activities Center houses numerous student-oriented services, including the UCLA Test Bank. Used by approximately 4,200 students per year, the test bank requires students to donate a test before they are granted access. Professors are able to request that their tests not be made available through the bank. Greek life and honors organizations often maintain their own, unregulated banks. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)





Guillaume Kosmala: Student debt must be addressed in presidential debates

On Monday night, the first presidential debate took place. Many things were said, including the dubious claims that Donald Trump is not “braggadocious,” that the entirety of the economic recovery is due to a “big, fat, ugly bubble” and that the Democratic National Convention could have been hacked by “somebody sitting on their bed who weighs 400 pounds.” Yet amid all this, very little mention was made of what arguably matters most: college and student debt. Read more...

Photo: (Creative Commons photos by Gage Skidmore via Flickr)





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