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Opinion
April 22, 2025 10:22 p.m.
(Levana Gu/Daily Bruin)
“Beyond the Statute” is a series created by Sierra Benayon-Abraham, an assistant Opinion editor and third-year public health student. In these columns, she will be exploring various public health policies, laws and experiences that different marginalized communities encounter, along with the truths behind them.
By Sierra Benayon-Abraham
Community
April 22, 2025 10:26 a.m.This post was updated April 22 at 7:53 p.m.
Holly’s elevators sucked.
I lived on the ninth floor of De Neve Holly last year. It felt like every other day, one or both of the elevators had some problem or needed to be shut down for maintenance.
By Jonathan Mehdizadeh
Community
April 13, 2025 2:50 p.m.Op-ed: Universities must protect political expression, freedom of dissenting speech
This post was updated April 15 at 8:01 p.m.
When federal agents in plainclothes abducted Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk off the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts, they didn’t just detain one person.
By Beren Azizi
Opinion
April 13, 2025 2:23 p.m.Opinion: What Ye’s antisemitic hate speech means for Jewish fans
Editor’s note: This post was updated April 15 at 8:19 p.m. to remove unsubstantiated conjecture about Ye’s mental health.
Ye’s hate-fueled rampages on X in February reignited debates over whether his behavior stems from deep-seated bigotry or untreated mental illness.
By Micah Hoffman
Opinion
April 9, 2025 11:13 a.m.Opinion: Despite campus renovations being needed, UCLA should increase project transparency
This post was updated April 10 at 7:35 p.m.
Finding open gym equipment to use or a place to study often requires a great deal of effort when you’re supposed to share with more than 30,000 of your peers.
By Angelina Alkhouri
Opinion
April 6, 2025 2:31 p.m.Uncomfortable Conversations: Embracing mixed-race heritage reveals complexity of racial, ethnic identity
This post was updated April 10 at 7:14 p.m.
“Uncomfortable Conversations” is a series by Kirsten Brehmer exploring a broad range of topics that are hard to talk about, often go unspoken and need a space to be heard.
By Kirsten Brehmer
Editorials
April 6, 2025 2:30 p.m.Editorial: Attack on national parks show Trump administration’s disregard for federal workers
This post was updated April 8 at 8:00 p.m.
As purple mountain majesties become overrun with litter and biodiversity disappears from sea to shining sea, President Donald Trump’s attack on the National Park Service in alignment with his vision of “efficiency” only diminishes America’s beauty.
By Editorial Board
Community
April 2, 2025 6:28 p.m.Op-ed: As Trump arrests international students, we must stand together, defend our rights
This post was updated April 3rd at 9:36 p.m.
Editor’s note: The views expressed in this op-ed are those of the author’s alone and are not the official positions of UCLA, the campus, or any academic unit, department or program at UCLA.
By Andy Kleinhesselink
Opinion
April 1, 2025 3:38 p.m.Opinion: In a world of mass tragedy, our generation must choose empathy
This post was updated April 3rd at 9:30 p.m.
My phone lit up with a notification.
“Is there anything I should take from your room?”
This is the text I received from my mom as she tried to pack our lives out of the house my family has lived in since 1996 into four duffel bags.
By Sara Green
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