It is difficult to grade someone’s ability to hold a conversation when you have never heard them speak. Yet several University of California campuses look at foreign language education the same way many students look at their least significant classes: “pass” or “no pass.” Although the foreign language requirement is firmly rooted in UCLA’s College of Letters and Science graduation prerequisites, several other UCs allow students to waive the requirement – if there is one at all – with evidence of having passed three years of one foreign languag in high school. Read more...

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Accountability is a nice thing to ride into office on, but when faced with the realities of governance, it’s a difficult platform to follow through with. Read more...

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It’s hard to argue that campus climate is not a problem at UCLA. A growing list of incidents on campus this year proves that point: student protests denouncing Proposition 209, which bans affirmative action in the state of California; a student video criticizing the university’s lack of black students; racist and sexist fliers directed at the Asian American population on campus; and an Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting that ran more than 11 hours and included several hateful public comments toward the Palestinian and Jewish communities on campus. Read more...

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