For commuter students, having affordable transportation is not just a convenience – it’s a necessity. Of the total student population at UCLA, around 25 percent of all students – undergraduate and graduate alike – commute to campus. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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January 22, 12:39 am
Editorial: UCLA must make reasonably priced parking available to students
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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January 22, 12:32 am
Ryan Nelson: UCLA needs to take initiative against overfishing
So we’ve officially eaten ourselves sick. That’s according to a study published this month by Science Magazine, which posits that human beings have essentially overfished ourselves to the brink, and soon will suffer the consequences: a massive extinction of marine life that will eventually cause a decreased food supply, less biological diversity and a far more vulnerable shoreline to the eventual tidal intrusion of our rising oceans. Read more...
Photo: (Yanna Lee/Daily Bruin)
Community, Opinion
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January 21, 12:53 am
Submission: Bigger resource center is crucial for transfer student engagement
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, 12:00 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)