The original version of this letter contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the letter for additional information. In response to last month’s Daily Bruin editorial concerning the visibility of sexual assault resources on campus, we, the leaders of the Campus Assault Resource Education Speak Out and Support Coalition, would like to stress that it cannot only be student leaders and administration driving and supporting the efforts of the CARE SOS Coalition. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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April 5, 12:00 am
Letter to the editor: Resource visibility responsibility of all students
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 5, 12:00 am
Ryan Nelson: Lifetime, pharmacy care caps on UC SHIP should be removed
In Oakland, the University of California Office of the President has been engaged in deliberations over a cap on health. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 4, 12:26 am
Katie Shepherd: Collective student voice needed in UC advocacy issues
To a UCLA student, the concerns of faraway campuses like UC Berkeley and UC Davis might seem irrelevant to life on our campus. But the fact is, our campuses operate under the same system and are subject to the same budgetary strains that tie the University together in important ways. Read more...
Editorials, Opinion
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April 4, 12:20 am
Active participation in course evaluations would improve overall education
Knee-deep in end-of-quarter papers and exams, students may forgo completing course evaluations on MyUCLA to use every minute for sleep and work. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, the response rate for online course evaluations has averaged around 42 percent or lower since the beginning of the pilot – a level this board feels is much too low, especially compared to the average response rate of paper evaluations, which is about 75 to 85 percent. Read more...
Opinion
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April 3, 2:22 am
Speaks Out
We asked students how they felt about the ongoing United States Supreme Court proceedings regarding Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act. Iris Colburn First-year, art history “It’s already so difficult in this society to find your true love, and to fall in love, and to live it out, and for some government to step in and say ‘hey you can’t do that’ is more than violating someone’s right – it’s violating the right to feel, or like putting a ban on feelings.” Sur Samtani Second-year, mathematics/economics “I think that gay marriage is a state issue, so I wouldn’t want the Supreme Court to impose gay marriage on a state or ban any state from supporting gay marriage. Read more...
Opinion, Opinion Columns
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April 3, 12:59 am
Alexandra Tashman: LGBT issues not limited to marriage equality
Approximately 2.7 million Americans changed their profile pictures last week to some variation of the Human Rights Campaign’s red equal sign in support of same-sex marriage, according to estimates from Facebook. Read more...
Community, Opinion
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April 2, 12:00 am
Submission: Students encouraged to invest early to build wealth
For many college students, deciding how and where to invest seems like a task best left for the distant future. Any young person will admit that investing is a no-brainer in the long run, and many even dare to dream about what kinds of decisions they’ll make with their money years from now when they’re swimming in piles of it. Read more...