The year 2014 was the hottest on record since atmospheric record-keeping began more than 100 years ago. Events in our backyards, across the country, around the world – Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Katrina, increasing ocean acidification, extinctions, irreversible glacial and arctic melting, drought, floods and storms – tell us unmistakably: Climate change is here, now. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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February 13, 12:24 am
Submission: UC should divest from top-200 fossil fuel firms
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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February 13, 12:18 am
Zoey Freedman: Self-motivation most effective in curbing classroom phone use
It’s not unusual to look around a lecture hall and see almost all the students’ heads bowed, but not because they’re furiously taking notes. The use of cordless electronic devices – specifically cell phones – in the classroom has become a prevalent issue, as it increasingly detracts from learning during lecture. Read more...
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Opinion, Opinion Columns
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February 12, 12:30 am
Yiwei Sun: UCLA must continue to create inclusive environment for LGBT students
With UCLA’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Campus Resource Center celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, UCLA has come a long way in terms of creating a supportive environment for LGBT students. Read more...
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Opinion, Opinion Columns
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February 11, 12:20 am
Kunal Patel: Vaccination for HPV critical for college students
As California is gripped by a sudden spike in cases of measles, conversations about the importance of vaccination abound. But there’s one specific type of infection – and corresponding vaccination – that is largely ignored in the conversation about immunization, even while it bears critical importance for the college-aged population: human papillomavirus. Read more...
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Opinion, Opinion Columns
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February 11, 12:07 am
Shani Shahmoon: Creation of online open courses could reconnect alumni to UCLA
By creating and subsidizing online courses for alumni, UCLA can redefine what it means to be part of the Bruin family. Starting in 2012, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology collaborated to create a nonprofit, Massive Open Online Course program called “edX,” which provides free online courses for alumni at their alma maters. Read more...
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Opinion, Opinion Columns
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February 10, 1:22 am
Aram Ghoogasian: Slates must enforce inclusiveness of open application process
It’s one thing to say a process is inclusive. It’s another to make it so. The latter is going be the difficult part for the Undergraduate Students Association Council as May elections approach. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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February 9, 12:38 am
Chloe Lew: Sexual assault policy needs more transparency
If the university is going to make employees divulge information about their friends and colleagues, the least it could do is give up some of its own. Read more...
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