Opinion
May 14, 2019 11:08 p.m.Mind Your Business: UCLA’s business-like practices create exploitative environment for student workers
UCLA is an institution with many moving parts. Something that goes under the radar, though: its side business ventures that don’t directly relate to its educational mission.
By Mariah Furtek
Opinion
April 25, 2019 12:33 a.m.Mind Your Business: UCLA hotels detract funding from more pressing issues, compromise local business
UCLA is an institution with many moving parts. Something that goes under the radar, though: its side business ventures that don’t directly relate to its educational mission.
By Mariah Furtek
Opinion
April 5, 2019 1:24 a.m.UC creates community walls by failing to fully support transfer student inclusivity
Think back to a moment of self-doubt you’ve experienced in university. Perhaps you’re gripping your notes with sweaty palms in seminar, dreading your turn to give a presentation.
By Mariah Furtek
Opinion
Feb. 13, 2019 10:14 p.m.Dining hall inaccessibility alienates commuter, transfer students
Think about your first memory at UCLA. Maybe you’re grabbing boxes for your dorm out of your parents’ minivan.
Or maybe you’re lost on your way to lecture, chugging coffee to wake up after suffering through hours of traffic and parking nightmares.
By Mariah Furtek
Opinion
Jan. 23, 2019 10:29 p.m.UCLA must establish multilingual writing center to support diverse student body
Is a school really committed to student-body diversity if it does not support diverse languages?
UCLA seems reluctant to answer that question.
Though the university has an 11.8 percent international student body and boasts thousands of classes in foreign languages, it does not have a multilingual writing center where tutors can help students develop their academic writing in a range of languages.
By Mariah Furtek
Opinion
Nov. 15, 2018 10:59 p.m.You See LA Abroad: Study abroad stress could be mitigated by advice from returning students
Mariah Furtek is a staff columnist studying abroad in London until winter quarter. In this column series, she analyzes UCLA’s study abroad program and examines from afar how Bruins live in their beloved Los Angeles.
By Mariah Furtek
Opinion
Oct. 4, 2018 11:20 p.m.You See L.A. Abroad: If the world’s interesting, LA is more so. UCLA needs to help Bruins explore it.
Mariah Furtek is a staff columnist studying abroad in London until winter quarter. In this column series, she analyzes UCLA’s study abroad program and examines from afar how Bruins live in their beloved Los Angeles.
By Mariah Furtek
Opinion
June 9, 2018 1:57 a.m.Are you there, UCLA? It’s me, Mom: UCLA should follow other UCs’ leads on supporting students with dependents
Parenting students and faculty on campus are a forgotten constituency. The voices of nursing mothers have been largely ignored by UCLA, heard only by student activist groups.
By Mariah Furtek
Opinion
May 23, 2018 11:11 p.m.Are you there, UCLA? It’s me, Mom: UCLA must provide affordable child care to all student parents
Parenting students and faculty on campus are a forgotten constituency. The voices of nursing mothers have been largely ignored by UCLA, heard only by student activist groups.
By Mariah Furtek
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