Dear Daily Bruin Editorial Board: We at Big Blue Bus were delighted to see you take on the cause of raising awareness of what might impede students from using the new Expo Light Rail, and we applaud your restating the planned Big Blue Bus options to the station, which are Big Blue Bus Routes 8 and 12 – soon to be combined with Rapid 12. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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March 15, 12:00 am
Letter to the Editor: Big Blue Bus’ plan for new Expo Line increases efficiency
Editorials, Opinion
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March 15, 12:00 am
Editorial: Proposed law to raise smoking age ineffective, unnecessary
At the age of 18, you are treated as an adult by the state of California. You can vote, drive, buy a lottery ticket and be held accountable for your actions in a court of law. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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March 11, 12:09 pm
Submission: Student event will center on solidarity, intersectionality to raise awareness
In an effort to promote education and a sense of community among all Bruins, the Asian American Studies M119: “Asian American and Pacific Islander Labor Issues” course will hold an event centered on solidarity in the face of injustice. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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March 10, 12:00 am
Editorial: UCLA should add online classes to accommodate higher enrollment
UCLA is planning to add 750 more students for the upcoming school year, and how it accommodates them is going to become increasingly important. Vice Chancellor Steve Olsen said to mitigate the addition of incoming students, one of the upcoming priorities of the university is “to improve the quality and the number of seats in the classrooms.” Multiple lecture halls will be renovated in the summer, including Moore 100 and a couple of the Young Court of Sciences rooms, said Olsen. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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March 9, 10:14 pm
Julia McCarthy: Students should be made aware of campus legal services
Imagine finding out, on top of dealing with the stresses of classes, midterms and work, you were also facing eviction. Kelsey Tokunaga, a fourth-year sociology student, doesn’t need to imagine it – it actually happened to her. Read more...
Photo: (Kelly Brennan/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Opinion
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March 9, 10:11 pm
Submission: UC Regents must decide whether to fully commit to climate leadership
On Feb. 26, members from Fossil Free UCLA met with the UC Board of Regents’ Committee on Investments, or the COI, to present their case for fossil fuel divestment. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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March 6, 10:46 pm
Editorial: UCLA should offer severance package to Piterberg to protect community
The Daily Bruin editorial board calls on UCLA to ensure history professor Gabriel Piterberg does not return to his position. Piterberg has been the subject of multiple sexual harassment complaints from graduate students within his department. Read more...