This post was updated May 31 at 6:07 pm. The pandemic has been a nightmare, but that doesn’t mean UCLA should leave behind the innovations it came with. Read more...
Photo: UCLA should consider implementing a permanent model of hybrid learning to accommodate students’ varying learning styles and socioeconomic situations. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
This post was updated May 31 at 6:10 p.m. The class of 2021 is expected to be the last graduating class of Zoom university – and nothing besides a pandemic should change that. Read more...
Photo: A return to campus should mark the end of remote learning. While the virtual sphere offers its fair share of benefits, it cannot come close to the social connections allowed by in-person classes. (Alyson Hong/Daily Bruin, Daily Bruin file photo)
Platforms/goals: Excellent For the second consecutive year, Naomi Riley set goals for her office that toed the line between daring and idealistic. Her main platforms – community, accountability, accessibility and affordability – are goals that USAC officers set year after year with varying levels of success. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Naomi Riley)
Platforms/goals: Excellent Arasasingham came into the external vice presidential race with 20 platforms centered around three main themes – In Our University, In Our Region and In Our State. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Aidan Arasasingham)
Platforms/goals: Excellent Emily Luong brought a sense of student-first specificity with her platforms. Going beyond the usual bureaucracy of the internal vice presidency, Luong emphasized goals aimed at affecting structural change on issues including rent, student-worker rights and administrative relations. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Emily Luong)
Platforms/goals: Moderate Time was ticking when Laura Laubach came into office. The general representative 1 started her term in February after the officer who previously held the seat resigned. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Laura Laubach)
Platforms/goals: Excellent General representatives have the monumental task of representing the student body’s interests at council meetings. Justin Rodriguez met that challenge head-on and planned to advocate for culturally accessible mental health resources, work with student-labor advocates and student-workers to create a student-labor task force and organize a research coalition to investigate issues such as cost of living in Westwood. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Justin Rodriguez)
