As the tail end of class registration nears and students await the arrival of second pass, too many students are being reminded that they won’t graduate on time. Sometimes, it’s due to a course conflict, with students forced to choose between two classes that take place at the same time. Others are stymied by the unit cap, a blockade...
The four-quarter foreign language requirement for students in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS) has plagued students for years. In certain cases, students have missed their expected graduation date because they haven’t met their fourth quarter foreign language requirement, which has forced them to stay a fifth year to complete a breadth language requirement. Lowering the...
Last year on Nov. 23, a 17-year-old African American teenager was with friends while parked at a convenience store when he was fatally shot by a white man named Michael Dunn. The teenagers were blasting loud music and Dunn got into an argument with them, insisting that they lower the music. He claimed he saw a gun pointed at...
This Presidents’ Day, Groupon tried out its humor and released a coupon that portrayed Alexander Hamilton as president of the United States. Ha ha, very funny. But wait: Do you know who Alexander Hamilton is?
It’s okay — it’s facts like these that tend to slip out of our minds and far as way as possible after exams and tedious...
In the spring of 2013, Congress cut the United States’ federal budget by about $1.2 trillion by implementing a “budget sequester.” The sequester butchered the budgets of federally funded agencies, such as NASA. NASA’s budget was sliced by about $1.2 billion, which caused the agency to immediately suspend all outreach and educational programs in an effort to save future...
What a peculiar state we are in. Our government, ideally, is supposed to function through its separation of powers, but stands today dysfunctional because of it. Because of this dysfunctionality, making changes to our nation via traditional methods is near impossible. And who are the victims of this? We, the people. Yet of all people, those who can least...
President Obama recently announced that the White House was forming a task force to protect college women from what he called “the crime and the outrage of sexual violence.”
“I want every young man in America to know that real men do not hurt women,” proclaimed a passionate Obama in his weekly Internet address.
The changes Obama presented are helpful, but...
Dear Editor,
Your editorial of February 5, “Student input should be made on new changes to the UC Calendar,” contained several factual errors and unfounded assumptions.
Contrary to what you stated, the policy about which you wrote is not new. It was established in 2007.
The policy does not specifically direct campuses to move the calendar back a week, but rather requires...
If you were never presented with the option of attending college, do you think you would? Statistics don’t lie: Having a college education is preferable to not having a college education. America’s current unemployment rate is at 6.7 percent. Close to 8 percent of all working non-college graduates are unemployed — but only 4 percent of college graduates are.
I...
The political debate on immigration reform in the United States has been a lingering issue for decades. Overwhelming bipartisan legislation to reform the nation’s flawed immigration policy was passed in the Senate last June, and it is time for the House of Representatives to compromise with the Senate and White House to come up with a responsible, comprehensive plan...