Category: Winter 2020
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Feeding Frenzy
By Allison Malone Construction: it’s nobody’s favorite thing to wake up to, especially when paying upwards of $4,000 a quarter for room and board on campus. It’s unacceptable for residents in Hitch and Saxon especially to be woken up at 7 a.m. when construction starts on the new housing complexes next door – but the…
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Get Fit or Get Out of My Gym, You Feeble Plebs!
By Keaton Larson During the beginning of the winter quarter, our gyms see a large influx as fresh faces try to stick to some ridiculous resolution. For every athlete and beefcake, there are two beginners looking to put on some pounds. Your fears of athletes are understandable but unwarranted. Many athletes use their own workout…
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Westboro Baptist Church Rebukes UCLA Sinners
By Jenny Beck The Westboro Baptist Church visited sunny California this February with picket signs and a determination to make a difference in the community. And indeed they did, at 8:30 a.m. on a Monday morning. While students slept through their alarms and stood in line for B-Plate smoothies, the protesters stood their ground a…
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Big Waste Requires Big Brain
By Larry Chen No doubt, almost all of you reading this have seen the “Zero waste to landfill by 2020” slogan wrapped around the rim of every trash bin on campus. A noble goal, you may think. With the sea turtles choking on straws and Mother Earth slowly being caked in single use plastics, less…
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Keep the Change
By Brian Chang Ho Ho Ho! It’s that time of the year again! The Board of Regents has convened once more at UC San Francisco to discuss the annual budget and inevitably raise tuition costs. True to tradition, the Regents are proposing to raise tuition prices for the third consecutive year. In the past two…
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Political Science Goes STEM
By Chris Higginbotham Following in the footsteps of other athlete-favorite majors, Political Science joins Economics and Business Economics on South Campus. While the Economics major was reclassified in response to a change in its Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) codes, the Political Science shift comes at the request of UCLA’s Interfraternity Council. IFC demanded that…
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Beans & Rice
By MALAIKA COLASO Art by MAHINA MARTINSON UCLA is “one of the world’s most ethnically and culturally diverse communities” (UCLA). Yet, this notion of UCLA being a cultural melting pot is highly debatable given the lack of fusion between these communities on campus. Instead of steeping in this supposed melting pot, students appear to be…
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Conformity While Promoting Diversity
By Shay Joshi After seeing a woman who doesn’t shave her legs or wear makeup, we usually react with the exclamation, “that’s so cool” or “what a queen!” and even “we should not have to trouble ourselves for others.” Later, we find ourselves shaving our legs and wearing makeup as we get ready to head…
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Medicalize LSD Now
By SAMANTHA MARMET Art By URNA BAJRACHARYA In 1938, chemist Albert Hofmann synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) from ergot, a fungus that grows on rye. A few years later, Hofmann discovered its psychoactive effects during the first intentional LSD trip. The 1950s then marked the golden age of psychedelic research: more than 40,000 patients were…
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