Though UCLA students call Westwood their home, they might not know about, much less participate in, the multiple organizations working to improve the Westwood community. Whether students know it or not, Westwood is home to a number of entities whose sole purpose is to improve the safety, attractiveness and business of our neighborhood. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 24, 12:00 am
Maia Ferdman: Students should actively seek to improve Westwood-UCLA relationship
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 23, 12:31 pm
Ryan Nelson: Students should support efforts to curb NSA surveillance
They see you when you’re sleeping. They know when you’re awake. And boy, do they know if you’ve been bad or good. For our friends at the National Security Agency, it’s just all in a day’s work. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 22, 12:13 am
Katie Shepherd: EVP Office support for Prop. 13 reform misguided
“Simply put, California is broke.” The statement, pulled directly from an event page on Facebook put up by the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s External Vice President Office, offers a sweeping explanation for the University of California’s inflated tuition rates. Read more...
Photo: Members of Fund the UC protest a UC Board of Regents meeting outside the James West Alumni Center in November, 2011, asking the regents to endorse a plan that would modify Proposition 13.
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 21, 1:00 am
Charley Guptill: UCLA Transportation should subsidize Metro bus lines
Getting out of the Westwood bubble has proven to be a crucial part of my UCLA education. Unfortunately, during much of my first and second years here, exploring Los Angeles actually just meant traveling even farther west than Westwood. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 17, 1:35 am
Alexandra Tashman: Sexual assault bill redundant despite good intentions
In the wake of a number of federal complaints involving underreporting of sexual assaults on California college campuses, California State Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles) introduced a bill Jan. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 17, 12:00 am
Eitan Arom: UCLA should not apply academic freedom policy on selective basis
James Enstrom has taken to carrying around a red folder full of documents. The former UCLA researcher has spent much of the last two years building a case against the people he believes forced him out of his position because of his scientific opinions. Read more...
Photo: James Enstrom was employed at UCLA in various departments and positions since 1973.
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 16, 12:00 am
Julia McCarthy: Report describing LA’s problems does little to solve them
The Los Angeles 2020 Commission report “A Time For Truth” presents a paradox to the reader: it seeks to educate, but succeeds only in trivializing the issues it presents. Read more...