The UC Board of Regents is an exclusive club, and students have only minimal membership. Recent protests over the regents' newly approved tuition hike plan show the lack of student voice at the legislative level with the Board of Regents. Read more...
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On Feb. 8, the University of California Student Association (UCSA) will vote on a resolution to divest from eleven companies that do business with Israel. The legislation was authored by Students for Justice in Palestine members across the country including Rahim Kurwa, a UCLA graduate student who has played a leading role in promoting similar campaigns within the Undergraduate Students Association Council here at UCLA. Read more...
Historically, divestment has been used as an instrument to discourage unethical behavior, as in the cases of South African Apartheid, the prison-industrial complex and the fossil fuel industry. Read more...
Information on study abroad is getting lost in translation before students set foot in a foreign country. Students planning on studying abroad have to coordinate with their academic department or college, the UCLA study abroad office, the University of California Education Abroad Program and the international school they are studying at before they leave on their trips. Read more...
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Hate speech reared its ugly head again on a University of California campus during divestment debates, in what has become a sad and predictable pattern. On Jan. Read more...
Editor’s note: The following is an open letter to UCLA faculty that represents the opinion of more than 350 UCLA faculty members. It was submitted to the Daily Bruin by ecology and evolutionary biology professor Paul Barber. Read more...
There are two main problems facing the future of the Internet in America. One is net neutrality, which is the ability of companies to choose what content they make accessible to consumers. Read more...
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