Picture yourself: It’s 2 a.m. in the middle of winter quarter, and your nerves are as mushy as the banana from Bruin Plate you forgot in your bag yesterday. Read more...
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Community, Opinion
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January 17, 10:42 pm
Submission: Former USAC EVP Rafi Sands reflects on time in campus politics
Running for the Undergraduate Students Association Council was the best experience of my college career. That’s not something you’d expect to hear from many. Like many political things, student government elections get painted in an overwhelmingly negative light. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 16, 11:47 pm
Tabatha Lewis: UCLA must require explanatory module before students pay or waive UC SHIP
Imagine this: You wake up one morning at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center with alcohol poisoning because you didn’t follow the “one drink per hour” rule from the alcohol module that UCLA has incoming students finish before they come to campus. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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January 16, 10:26 pm
Submission: Multistall all-gender restrooms would address nonbinary students’ needs
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...
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...
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