Sunday, March 1


William Bleveans: Crowded USAC election field likely to contribute to debased discourse

This year’s crowded field of undergraduate student government candidates may put the 17-strong field of 2016’s Republican presidential primary to shame. Eight candidates are running for Undergraduate Students Association Council president this year: five as independents, one from an established campus political slate and two from untested slates. Read more...

Photo: (Shreya Mantri/Daily Bruin)


Aaron Julian: Social media users must exert more responsibility over data

Last week, all of Washington, D.C. and countless others honed in on a hearing in Congress to watch Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, get grilled for the company’s breaches of user data. Read more...

Photo: Facebook has been in hot water for Cambridge Analytica’s breach of users’ privacy. But it’s expected that the information we post on social media will be misused. (Creative Commons by Maurizio Pesce via Flickr)