This Week in the News serves as The Quad’s space for reflection on current events at and around UCLA. Every week, Daily Bruin staffers will analyze some of the most significant stories to keep readers up to speed.

This post was updated Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m.
This Week in the News serves as The Quad’s space for reflection on current events at and around UCLA.

This Week in the News serves as The Quad’s space for reflection on current events at and around UCLA. Every week, Daily Bruin staffers will analyze some of the most significant stories to keep readers up to speed.

If the major news outlets had been correct in their predictions for 2016, Hillary Clinton would be President.
Today, The Quad is taking a look through the archives to see why many polls failed to predict the winners of the 1980 and 2016 United States presidential elections, and how pollsters in 2020 have changed their methods accordingly.

No shoes, no pants, no problem. A phrase that used to only pertain to cheeky beaches and pools has found a new place of applicability in 2020: the home office.

The hashtag #ChallengeAccepted has swept social media platforms in recent weeks, adding femicide in Turkey to the growing expanse of social media activism in the COVID-19 age.

Pandemic-related stories are constantly dominating today’s news feed. Because of this, one may have missed the recent unfolding of a series of events in Washington D.C.

While presidential elections in the United States are often fraught with controversy, intrigue and memorable sound bites, never before have we had an election cycle quite like this one.

While free college tuition seems like a dream, it will soon be a dream come true for some students at USC come fall 2020.
High tuition, expensive books and countless other costs – it’s no secret that paying for college is difficult for many students.

This year not only marks 100 years of UCLA but 100 years of women voting in the United States.
With a presidential election around the corner, it’s important to look back on the strides made in suffrage in the United States, such as women earning the vote with the passage of the 19th amendment.