UCLA housing officials plan to spend $8.2 million over the next year to build a needlessly expensive study spot in Hedrick dining hall. Of the total cost, $2.4 million is set to go to architectural costs, including finishings and furnishings. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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February 9, 12:34 am
Editorial: 24-hour Hedrick study lounge exorbitantly expensive, unnecessary
Community, Opinion
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February 7, 12:51 pm
Submission: Students crucial to speaking up against taking autonomy away from UC
In my years of student advocacy at UCLA, I have been to San Francisco to the University of California Board of Regents meetings twice. I, like many students, find the regents to be aloof to student concerns. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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February 6, 12:00 am
Benjamin Genta: Student representation on Board of Regents should be increased
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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Community, Opinion
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February 6, 12:00 am
Submission: Co-author of UCSA resolution needs to disclose affiliations
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...
Opinion
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February 6, 12:00 am
Submission: UCSA should follow UC campus’ leads, support divestment
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...
Opinion Columns
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February 5, 12:04 am
Casey Kovarik: Miscommunication between UCLA, study abroad students a major frustration
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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Editorials, Opinion
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February 5, 12:01 am
Editorial: Hate crime at UC Davis detracts from constructive campus dialogue
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...