The University of California Student-Workers Union UAW 2865 won an important victory in 2014 on behalf of all students, faculty and staff: The UC agreed to guarantee academic student employees reasonable access to all-gender restrooms upon request. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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January 16, 10:26 pm
Submission: Multistall all-gender restrooms would address nonbinary students’ needs
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 16, 6:20 am
Sandra Wenceslao: LA recycling program needs better regulation, tailoring to customers
Walking to and from UCLA to your apartment can be tiring process – especially if you’re one of the unlucky few living off campus. Now, imagine having to push aside large amounts of trash every day in order to go up the stairs to your apartment just because haulers have missed waste pickups. Read more...
Photo: Los Angeles City Council members must obtain input from landlords and tenants in order to improve waste management throughout the city. (Hannah Johnson/Daily Bruin)
Editorials, Opinion
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January 16, 6:15 am
Editorial: UCLA needs transparency if it wants to keep parents’ trust, support
UCLA rang in the new year by keeping up with an old tradition: angering parents who entrust the university to take care of their children. Last month, the university administration placed Norma Silva, the principal of the UCLA Lab School, which enrolls pre-K through sixth grade students and is operated by the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, on leave with little explanation to the school’s community. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 11, 9:33 pm
Selby Kia: UCLA must advocate for cost-effective solutions to textbooks
It’s not the textbooks that are weighing down UCLA students. It’s their costs. UCLA students spend an average of $1,000 every year on textbooks and other course materials. Read more...
Photo: (Thomas Tran/Daily Bruin)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 11, 4:37 pm
William Zou: Continuing turf rebate program will improve LA’s sustainability
Imagine the vast landscapes that Los Angeles’ water supply flows through. Water from the Colorado River races past the Eagle Mountains, bends into the Mojave Desert and snakes through the Imperial Valley. Read more...
Photo: (Nicole Anisgard Parra/Daily Bruin)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 11, 12:58 am
Chris Busco: California marijuana laws are convoluted, designed to harm small businesses
California rang in the new year by opening the world’s largest marijuana economy. Too bad the only people getting high off the market will be those who can afford to navigate the botched patchwork of regulations and large fees the state government has in store for them. Read more...
Photo: California’s proposed marijuana regulations would benefit large corporate entities and hurt smaller industry competitors, potentially pushing the latter into the black market. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Editorials, Opinion
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January 11, 12:57 am
Editorial: Allowing lawmakers to remove regents opens UC to political pressure
When the University of California Board of Regents was created 150 years ago, legislators presciently wrote that the regents were meant to keep the UC independent of political influence. Read more...