
A crowded lecture hall is pictured above. Columnist Lily Rubalcava argues that UCLA must make its active shooter protocols more widely known. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The last thing university students should be thinking about during finals week is gun violence.
But in December 2025, a gunman killed two people and injured nine after opening fire at Brown University.

UCLA claims its purpose is the “creation, dissemination, preservation and application of knowledge.”
Yet today’s students are consuming more information than any generation before them, without ever being formally taught how to evaluate it.
LinkedIn is the professional networking platform university students know all too well.
Marketed under the guise of productivity, the app is associated with the same mental health consequences as any other form of social media.
This post was updated Jan. 19 at 9:08 p.m.
Life changes quickly for students at UCLA.
It seems like every day there is a new update on meal plans, a department is losing funding or the campus administration has announced a new policy.
UCLA’s recent football coaching hire has done what years of messaging could not: It has created real optimism on campus. Students are paying attention again. Alumni are engaged.
This post was updated Jan. 11 at 8:54 p.m.
I remember reading a theory about serial killers while sitting in a philosophy class. The author stated that childhood trauma reverted their brains to a preevolutionary state where they became hardwired to kill.

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