Women are no strangers to sexual harassment. Women constantly dodge unwanted advances, touches and catcalls, often without ever confronting the men harassing them – and that harassment almost feels normal for many women. Read more...
Photo: (Harishwer Balasubramani/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA’s version of C-SPAN is an important service for transparency, but it shouldn’t be rocket science – or cost thousands of dollars to support. The Undergraduate Students Association Council has been discussing for almost two months changing the policies surrounding its USAC Live! Read more...
Conventional wisdom holds that smartphone apps make our lives easier. But a confusing glut of apps and digital programs designed to enhance safety at UCLA has done the exact opposite. Read more...
The whistle of a train pierces the quiet afternoon as the carriage rocks from side to side, grimy windows framing a slow-moving California coastline. This may sound like a scene from a docudrama about the California Gold Rush or westward expansion, but it’s actually a description of the antiquated and inconvenient commute many students make today on Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner, a train that runs between San Diego and San Luis Obispo. Read more...
Photo: Zipcar has a partnership with the University of California, through which students are offered discounted memberships and on-campus access to rentable cars. The UC should expand this partnership to allow students to pick up cars at one campus and drop them off at another. (Creative Commons photo by Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz)
In the context of a fascist regime in power, you cannot have “civil discourse” with fascists. Conservative campus groups like the Young Americans for Freedom, an appendage group of the Young America’s Foundation, receive millions of dollars in subsidies and backing to fund speakers who do not recognize the humanity of whole sections of people, such as throughdenigrating undocumented immigrants. Read more...
The scariest part of the Hill may not be its annual Haunted Hill, but rather its massive covert programming budget. It’s not cheap to live on the Hill. Read more...
Photo: Residential Life and the On-Campus Housing Council, two entities that host events on the Hill, command programming budgets of $11,000 and $50,00 respectively. However, they don’t disclose how exactly they spend this money, raising transparency concerns. (Daily Bruin file photo)
As a fourth-year member of the UCLA Bruin Marching Band, I have personally attended a great number of sporting events, from football games to basketball games to gymnastics meets. Read more...
