Tag: opinion
Students are at the biggest loss with the new tuition hikes
By now, almost everybody knows about the approval of UC President Janet Napolitano’s plan for up to a 5 percent increase of tuition annually...
Ferguson decision is only fuel to an already-burning fire
On Nov. 24, 2014, a grand jury decided against indicting police officer Darren Wilson for the murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The indictment would...
Letter to the Editor: Tuition Hikes Are Unfair
According to the think tank Demos, $2,100 was the average price of tuition for an academic year when I was in college in the...
Why the tuition hikes are a necessary evil
It seems that despite the best efforts of the student body to protest it, the dreaded tuition hikes will be implemented. Beginning next year,...
Letter to the Editor: Chancellor Announces Two New Administrative Positions, Encourages...
Editor’s Note: The following is a work of satire based on the events described in the Issue 09 article, “Wilcox takes heat from students...
Editorial: The new age of social media protests
It’s been true for a long time that the spread of social media has changed what we do and how we do it. We...
Why voters can hope for improvement in how they vote
California officials are considering making a transition to elections conducted exclusively by mail. In recent years, more than half the ballots cast in California’s...
Why Taylor Swift is right to get off Spotify
Taylor Swift is making headlines again — but not for her Billboard No. 1 smash album “1989” that has managed to sell 1.3 million...
U.S. Streets: Police war zones?
“Homeland security” — two simple words that have justified the dramatic increase in funding to police forces. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks,...
Bad game development shouldn’t be paid for by consumers
Video games are an expensive medium no matter how you look at it. Most gamers can afford to buy a few games a year,...