The days of hands-on projects left college students’ minds years ago, replaced with sleep deprivation and cramming for midterms.
But that’s not how it should be.

UCLA is diverse in every way but one.
Our campus welcomes and celebrates a diverse range of backgrounds and identities, from race to sexual orientation. There is one category, however, in which UCLA demands homogeneity – political views.

Binge drinking, mob mentality and hazing.
Greek life has a long list of negative stereotypes.
One that has continued to stick out in recent years: its perceived sexual assault problem.

This post was updated April 16 at 10:18 p.m.
They say numbers tell the story. Here are a couple:
About 45% of Bruins screened since January 2017 fall on some spectrum of depression or anxiety.

The David Geffen School of Medicine is considered one of the most diverse medical schools in the country.
Not for long, though.
UCLA’s school of medicine raised its math and science GPA and MCAT cutoff scores to 3.4 and 512, respectively.

In an effort to promote diversity, UCLA might just be doing the opposite.
The university enacted a policy in May that requires all faculty candidates to submit an equity, diversity and inclusion statement as part of their application.

The “10 Questions” lecture series, which will address a different question each week, doubles as a course for students and a panel open to the public.

A new campus organization focused on literary creativity is building a safe space for students to express themselves through writing and performance.
SLAM uniVERSE, founded fall 2018 by UCLA students Justine Ramos, Maria Zamarripa and Alexandro Guerrero, is a slam poetry club that aims to teach UCLA students about the benefits of creative literary expression.