Kerckhoff Hall is pictured. Opinion columnist Emilio Lois argues that USAC should not critique student organizations for using their freedom of expression. (Amelia Chief/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council recently reignited the fiery debate over free speech and antisemitism on college campuses.
At its April 14 meeting, USAC passed an open letter titled “Letter Condemning Event with Omer Shem Tov,” hours after Omer Shem Tov spoke at an event jointly hosted by Hillel at UCLA, the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and UCLA’s chapter of Students Supporting Israel.

On April 22, 2022, during my senior year of high school, a lone gunman shot more than two hundred rounds of ammunition into my school. My peers and I joined a survivors club none of us wanted to be a part of.
This post was updated May 7 at 10:16 p.m.
Can you cheat in a game with no rules?
Since the rollout of ChatGPT in November 2022, educators have been scrambling to determine how it might fit appropriately in their classrooms – if at all.
At first, the chant of “Hands off Iran” echoing through Bruin Walk sounds right. It feels like a call to avoid repeating the political interventions that have caused so much harm in the past.
This article was updated May 10 at 7:08 p.m.
An expanded and emboldened version of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrived in California last summer.
The agency’s uptick in immigration enforcement operations in Southern California, beginning in June 2025, sparked protests, with many criticizing ICE’s use of masks to conceal officers’ identities.
I’m writing in response to Janice Lee’s column, “Opinion: Amid normalization of dark humor, Bruins must choose empathy over entertainment.” She argues against consuming dark humor because we need to have more compassion for others.
When ASUCLA was first founded, it was created to serve students.
But today, with the Bruin Life and Undergraduate Experience Fee Referendum, ASUCLA is asking for $27 per quarter from those same students – and through referendum language that is unacceptably vague.
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