Dear editor, This is a letter responding to the Opinion column titled “Mind Your Business: UCLA hotels detract funding from more pressing issues, compromise local business.” The purpose and function of UCLA facilities, like the UCLA Tiverton House, the Guest House, the Lake Arrowhead Conference Center and the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, is to support UCLA’s mission of education, research and public service at a lower cost than other alternatives. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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May 6, 12:04 am
Letter to the editor: UCLA hospitality facilities further university’s public service mission
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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May 5, 11:59 pm
UCLA boasts activists-in-residence to distract from on-campus inequity
UCLA asks whether activism can be taught. What it really means to ask is whether activism can be bought. UCLA Activist-in-Residence is a position put on jointly by the Asian American studies department and the Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Read more...
Photo: (Michelle Fu/Daily Bruin)
Editorials, Opinion
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May 5, 11:54 pm
Editorial: Poway shooting presents another instance of nationwide gun control reform failure
Every time, it’s too close to home. Until it is your home. Last week, it was UCLA’s turn – yet again. A gunman opened fire April 28 in a Poway, California, synagogue during its final Passover celebrations. Read more...
Opinion, Podcasts
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May 4, 11:15 am
No Offense, But: The 2019 USAC election
This year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council featured the lowest voter turnout in at least the past decade, an eye-popping number of empty seats on the council table and a remarkable lack of fanfare. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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May 2, 10:47 pm
Predictive policing algorithm perpetuates racial profiling by LAPD
Los Angeles Police Department officers have done such a poor job of making our streets safer that they are now relying on an algorithm to tell them how to do their jobs. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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May 2, 10:41 pm
UCLA’s lax vaccination requirements put students at risk for future diseases
UCLA dodged a bullet – or a plague, to be more precise. The university was rocked by news of a measles case last week after a student infected with the disease attended classes in Franz and Boelter halls April 2, 4 and 9. Read more...
Photo: The University of California imposed a policy in 2015 that students should have measles vaccinations, but didn’t enforce it until 2018. The recent measles outbreak near Boelter Hall proves just how dangerous that kind of laxity in enforcement can be. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Opinion, Podcasts
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May 2, 2:38 pm
In the Know: Quarters, dimes and semesters
Quarters or semesters? The age-old debate has once again made its way on campus, this time thanks to Chancellor Gene Block. This week on “In the Know,” assistant Opinion editor Omar Said talks to Opinion editor Keshav Tadimeti about why this year’s iteration of the debate came about, and what it tells us about Block, UCLA and the future of education in Los Angeles. Read more...