It happens like clockwork. Though they may live anywhere from the United States to Chile, Lebanon to France, or Canada to Syria, when Palestinians in exile first meet, it is common for one to ask where the other is from in Palestine. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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May 18, 1:53 am
Submission: SJP invites UCLA community to learn about Nakba, its consequences
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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May 18, 1:50 am
Arthur Wang: ‘Bloody Thursday’ defines lack of dialogue between UC, students
All of us cheered when Gov. Jerry Brown struck a “historic” deal with the University of California and its president, Janet Napolitano, freezing tuition increases for two years and promising annual 4 percent budgetary increases over the next four. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students occupied Murphy Hall to remember a student who died when the National Guard shot at a crowd of activists at UC Berkeley. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Editorials, Opinion
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May 18, 1:33 am
Editorial: Gov. Brown’s budget revision proves positive compromise possible
Positive news about California public university funding is a rarity these days, so Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget revision released Thursday was both a huge surprise and relief. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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May 15, 1:01 am
Submission: Department of Urban Planning must let all students walk at graduation
At the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, master of urban and regional planning students are banned from participating in their cohort’s commencement ceremony unless all degree requirements have been completed in their entirety. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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May 15, 1:00 am
Aram Ghoogasian: Nakba should be acknowledged while discussing Israel
For many Palestinians, today doesn’t mark 67 years since the Nakba, but rather 67 years of the Nakba. In 1948, an estimated 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homeland in what Palestinians call the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” that gave birth to the State of Israel. Read more...
Photo: (Kelly Cheuk Ying Ho/Daily Bruin)
Editorials, Opinion
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May 14, 2:23 am
Editorial: Napolitano responsible for responding to undocumented students’ demands
On the first day of the University of California summit on undocumented students last week, UC President Janet Napolitano’s opening address was cut short when a cadre of undocumented students in the audience rose from their chairs, fists in the air, and demanded recognition and restitution from a president they have never trusted. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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May 14, 2:21 am
Kunal Patel: Current UCLA outreach program inadequately serves women engineers
For as much effort as UCLA has put toward increasing its undergraduate diversity through outreach programs, one group of individuals – women in engineering – is consistently overlooked. Read more...
Photo: (Kimberly Ann Striegel/Daily Bruin)