Each year, the Daily Bruin evaluates each Undergraduate Students Association Council member’s term in office. This year, The Bruin’s editorial board has taken into consideration four major criteria in the evaluations: council members’ ability to come up with and accomplish meaningful platforms, how well they fulfilled their respective roles beyond their platforms, how well they engaged students typically disengaged with USAC and their commitment to transparency and accountability. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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April 23, 12:07 pm
2017-2018 USAC Officer Evaluations
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 19, 11:55 pm
Avvalzameer Bhatia: Without clear plan, USAC’s proposed international student rep lacks purpose
The undergraduate student government has typically been foreign to international students. It is no secret that international students have needs that are different from those of local students. Read more...
Photo: The proposed international student representative position by the Undergraduate Students Association Council must be defined by a specific set of goals in order to offer services needed on the UCLA campus. (Emma Skinner/Daily Bruin)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 19, 10:26 pm
Tabatha Lewis: Limiting commencement speakers to alumni shortchanges students
After four or five long years of pulling all-nighters, waking up for 8 a.m. classes and telling yourself you’ll attend office hours, you’re finally ready to enter the next phase in your life and actualize your dreams, using what you learned in college. Read more...
Photo: (Audi Zhu/Daily Bruin)
Editorials, Opinion
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April 18, 11:28 pm
Editorial: Westwood community would benefit from proposed pedestrian-only plaza
It’s hard to think of Westwood as a pedestrian’s paradise. With cracked sidewalks, narrow streets and few places to sit down outside storefronts, the neighborhood is more of a passerby hub than a sit-down destination. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 17, 9:18 pm
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)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 17, 9:12 pm
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)
Cartoons, Opinion
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April 17, 7:32 pm
Editorial Cartoon: Productivity v. reality
Photo: (Aaron Lim/Daily Bruin)