COLUMN: Suppressing anti-Israel voices is unproductive


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At a University of California Regents meeting last month, Regent Richard Blum suggested suspension and expulsion as imperative punishments for students engaging in activities critical of Israel. He also invoked the political power of his wife, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, which many took to be a threat of negative consequences for the publicly funded university. This, […]

COLUMN: Support systems lessen stress of young adults


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Today is the first Tuesday of October, which just serves as another reminder of how much closer I am to needing to have my life figured out. I think that many people in my situation are feeling the same way. This past weekend, several of my peers took the LSAT, and the quickly approaching Nov. […]

COLUMN: Charter schools give parents more choice


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A wave of discontent within the Los Angeles Unified School District has brought local policymakers together to augment existing infrastructure by increasing the number of the city’s charter schools. Just this month, LAUSD and other California school districts experienced a common sentiment of worry when their students’ low Common Core test results were released. Inevitably, plans […]

New dean should embody core values


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Sitting outside the Ronald Tutor Campus Center, we randomly selected five students in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and asked them if they could name their dean. Only one could. Dornsife students don’t know their dean, but — because this figure plays such a pivotal role in the direction of the College […]