Every day, billions of pieces of information are collected on students and used to create intricate profiles on them. Most of these students don’t even have a choice, because they are forced by their schools to use programs that track them. Read more...
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University of California President Janet Napolitano is in quite the predicament. At the UC Board of Regents meeting this month, student protesters disrupted the regents meeting by stripping, shouting and throwing fake money to decry the tuition hike plan. Read more...
Photo: A hot mic caught UC President Janet Napolitano calling a student strip protest “crap” at the Board of Regents meeting this month. After news of her gaffe began to spread, Napolitano apologized to students, saying that she “was caught on the mic with a word that was unfortunate.” (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
The recent controversy surrounding a racist bus chant perpetrated by University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members and subsequent expulsion of two chant-leading members has reignited the debate of free speech on college campuses. Read more...
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After 11 years of continual increases in the number of applications, the University of California and the state have still not managed to figure out how to make room for everyone who deserves to be here. Read more...
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Once a quarter, every student at UCLA receives an entertaining email about Chancellor Gene Block’s student office hour. Although there are good intentions behind the idea of meeting with students personally to talk about campus issues, designating only a single hour to accommodate thousands of students is laughable. Read more...
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College graduates are facing a drastically different job market than the one that existed when our parents went to school. Where before someone might have begun working after graduation in the same company they would one day retire in, now, it is not uncommon for students to jump from job to job throughout their 20s. Read more...
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As the deadline to pass the California State Budget approaches in June, the high-stakes game of political chicken between University of California President Janet Napolitano and Gov. Read more...
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