If you entered UCLA as a freshman, or you currently are a freshman, imagine having to experience one of the following during the start of your UCLA career: having only one day of orientation, not living on the Hill, having to work off campus, or driving to school everyday. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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January 21, 12:53 am
Submission: Bigger resource center is crucial for transfer student engagement
Community, Opinion
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January 21, 12:00 am
Submission: Charlie Hebdo vigil forges solidarity among communities
On Jan. 12, close to 70 Bruins gathered to commemorate the heinous events which took place earlier this month in France. Following the attacks, millions of people took to social media to express their thoughts, emotions and reflections. Read more...
Opinion
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January 20, 11:58 pm
Ara Shirinian: Legalizing street vendors would serve community
Since I started attending UCLA, I’ve considered the fruit stands that I often pass on my way home a fixture of Westwood Village. The fruit stands are just one example of the thousands of street vendors in Los Angeles that call the road their home, and to me are just another part of what the Village has to offer. Read more...
Photo: (Kelly Cheuk Ying Ho/Daily Bruin)
Community
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January 20, 12:36 pm
Submission: Campus approach to transfer students overly patronizing
Last year, a referendum was passed by UCLA’s undergraduate student body to add a transfer representative office to the Undergraduate Students Association Council. Additionally, in recent years advocacy for transfer students has grown, and the process for transfer students to integrate with the UCLA community has become more transparent. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 20, 12:35 pm
Aram Ghoogasian: USAC must be ethically consistent in Turkey divestment vote
One hundred years ago, my great-grandfather, a 9-year-old at the time, faced extermination at the hands of the Ottoman Empire because of his ethnicity. Today, the Republic of Turkey categorically denies that its predecessor state committed genocide against the Armenian people. Read more...
Photo: Members of the Turkish Cultural Club presented to the Undergraduate Students Association Council last week, asking them to vote against a resolution drafted by the Armenian Students’ Association to ask the University of California to divest from the Republic of Turkey. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 16, 10:35 am
Natalie Delgadillo: State needs to accept responsibility, contribute to UCRP
For 20 years, the University of California and the state legislature folded their hands in their lap and slowly allowed one of the major financial structures of the University to sink into insolvency. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 16, 10:35 am
Travis Fife: Additional funds necessary to close projected degree gap in California
Degrees are the bridge to California’s future, but we are starting to run out of planks. According to the Public Policy Institute of California, the state will need at least one million more college degree holders than currently projected by 2025. Read more...
Photo: (Kimberly Ann Striegel/Daily Bruin senior staff)