So we’ve officially eaten ourselves sick. That’s according to a study published this month by Science Magazine, which posits that human beings have essentially overfished ourselves to the brink, and soon will suffer the consequences: a massive extinction of marine life that will eventually cause a decreased food supply, less biological diversity and a far more vulnerable shoreline to the eventual tidal intrusion of our rising oceans. Read more...
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One hundred years ago, my great-grandfather, a 9-year-old at the time, faced extermination at the hands of the Ottoman Empire because of his ethnicity. Today, the Republic of Turkey categorically denies that its predecessor state committed genocide against the Armenian people. Read more...
Photo: Members of the Turkish Cultural Club presented to the Undergraduate Students Association Council last week, asking them to vote against a resolution drafted by the Armenian Students’ Association to ask the University of California to divest from the Republic of Turkey. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
For 20 years, the University of California and the state legislature folded their hands in their lap and slowly allowed one of the major financial structures of the University to sink into insolvency. Read more...
Degrees are the bridge to California’s future, but we are starting to run out of planks. According to the Public Policy Institute of California, the state will need at least one million more college degree holders than currently projected by 2025. Read more...
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As a native Californian, I’ve always felt shamelessly privileged with the best – the beautiful West Coast, eternal sunshine, celebrity neighbors and about $23,000 less in tuition fees at the University of California than nonresidents. Read more...
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Linking college ratings to federal funding is a good idea in theory, but it’s a bit more complicated in practice. Recently the U.S. Department of Education released a framework for a college ratings system that would score colleges and distribute funding based on those ratings. Read more...
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In the opening presentation at my transfer orientation session, there was an emphasis on the fact that at UCLA, you are not just a number. It’s unfortunate then that I spent the rest of the excruciatingly long day feeling like the opposite was true; throughout the day, I came up with more questions than answers and spent much of my time racing the people in my group to sign up for classes that were quickly filling up . Read more...
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