What’s your name? Your major? Where are you from? What dorm are you living in? These questions will be the soundtrack to new students’ first few weeks at UCLA. Read more...
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Opinion, Opinion Columns
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August 10, 3:53 pm
Opinion: LA’s charter reform efforts have failed to produce meaningful change
This post was updated Aug. 23 at 6 p.m. The latest iteration of Los Angeles’ charter reform process has ended in disappointment. In August 2024, Mayor Karen Bass created the Charter Reform Commission to study LA’s city charter – the document that acts as the city’s constitution. Read more...
Photo: Los Angeles City Hall is pictured. Columnist Emilio Lois writes that the charter reform process has failed to give LA residents the governmental transparency they deserve. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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August 9, 10:13 am
Opinion: UCLA students should prepare thoroughly for finance jobs by learning the hiring process
Students with aspirations in finance frantically refresh job portals, treating the application as the starting line. But it isn’t. By the time these finance portals go live, the students most likely to land offers have already spent months or years doing the quiet work that never shows up on a resume. Read more...
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Opinion, Opinion Columns
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August 4, 10:25 pm
Opinion: In future elections, vote for the strategic choice, not the perfect candidate
This post was updated Aug. 23 at 5:58 p.m. The rules of an election can influence its outcomes just as much as the candidates. The 2026 California gubernatorial primary featured an unusually competitive field, with six Democrats and two Republicans leading among more than 60 candidates. Read more...
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Opinion, Opinion Columns
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August 2, 10:11 am
Editorial: The UC should reinstate SAT, ACT requirements to ensure student preparedness
This post was updated Aug. 12 at 4:14 p.m. Say you’re tasked with evaluating a high school senior. Here’s your criteria: their high school, their sophomore and junior year transcripts, a maximum 1,400 words of their writing, their extracurricular activities and the classes they plan to take senior year. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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July 26, 11:37 am
Editorial: UC’s defense of transgender students is nonnegotiable amid Defending Education lawsuit
This post was updated Aug. 2 at 2:54 p.m. A healthy campus community is one where identities are respected. But a recent lawsuit against the UC threatens that standard. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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July 22, 4:10 pm
Opinion: Increasing AI funding is not the solution UCLA students need
This post was updated Aug. 2 at 2:57 p.m. Artificial intelligence is changing the world. We must make sure – for our future careers and for our college education – that UCLA is getting the implementation of AI right. Read more...
Photo: A computer with the UCLA Senior Survey webpage is pictured. Columnist Dylan Choppin argues that artificial intelligence should not replace traditional learning models at UCLA. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)