Dear Chancellor Gene Block, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh and Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Jerry Kang: Ignited by the campus climate issues and incidents of the last few years, a group of staff, faculty and students came together to create a transparent space for concerned members of UCLA to engage in open conversations addressing campus climate and articulating transformative visions for the inaugural vice chancellor of equity, diversity and inclusion, Dr. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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September 29, 6:31 am
Submission: UCLA leadership must better support underrepresented communities
Editorials, Opinion
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September 28, 2:35 am
Editorial: Online voting would allow for more accessibility, increase turnout
More people live in Dykstra Hall than voted in the last year’s Westwood Neighborhood Council election. Despite this, the council wants to make voting even more difficult for students and young professionals, as it voted last week against a proposal to add online voting to its upcoming election in 2016. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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September 28, 2:34 am
Arthur Wang: Perpetual construction shows students as customers, not residents
Westwood is cramped, but if you count the dollars being spent on students who live on the Hill, we’re living large. I type this from the comfort – even if there’s no air conditioning – of the newly-renovated Saxon Suites, an almost-finished product that cost a cool $25 million to complete. Read more...
Photo: (Shelby Chan/Daily Bruin)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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September 25, 7:16 am
Shani Shahmoon: Students should check hypocrisy when calling out generalizations
In an effort to expand their minds, some people may be narrowing their perspectives. Today, there is a strong movement that has been attempting to bring an end to the generalizations of people, communities and organizations. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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September 25, 7:00 am
Submission: Queer Alliance seeks to provide much-needed intersectional, safe space
Editor’s note: Some of this submission’s authors have requested their names be altered because they are unable to express their sexuality or gender identity in their personal lives outside the UCLA community. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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September 24, 8:47 am
Submission: Job stability is the only difference between lecturers, professors
On your first day of class, you will probably assume that the instructor at the front of the room is a professor, right? You’ve got about a 50-50 chance of being right. Read more...
Photo: Lecturers gathered for National Adjunct Walkout Day in February to inform the UCLA community of adjunct faculty members’ struggles with job insecurity from term to term. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Editorials, Opinion
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September 24, 8:46 am
Editorial: Organizers must allow, encourage media access to campus events
The Daily Bruin has set out to cover Bruin Bash as thoroughly as possible since the event’s inception in 2005, digging into both the atmosphere and performances as well as the financial processes that actually fund it. Read more...