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University Times

The student news site of California State University - Los Angeles

University Times

The student news site of California State University - Los Angeles

University Times

A striking graphic protesting impaction at Cal State LA.

Letter to the Editor

Kolya Ludwig, Golden Eagle Justice May 14, 2019

The student struggle against impaction has exposed all that is rotten in the California State University (CSU) system. That effort’s most recent actions occurred at the Academic Senate meeting on Tuesday,...

Cannabis plants grow at a craft grow operation. Photo by Ben Nelms/Bloomberg

Farm Bill Hemps Up Agriculture

Marisa Vasquez, Managing Editor May 7, 2019

As of Dec. 11, 2018, President Trump implemented the farm bill, which allows hemp to become an agricultural commodity. The bill was heavily considered after President Donald Trump’s “trade dispute...

False Alarm

Anthony Quach, Sports Editor April 29, 2019

Cal State LA was identified by the LA County Department of Public Health as one of several sites in the LA County where the measles exposure may have occurred. The exposure was believed to have occurred...

A girl is holding up a sign which says "Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric is Violent: Free Speech"

The True Cost of Free Speech

Chloe Littleton, Contributing Writer April 29, 2019

On the morning of Monday, April 22, a large banner stood outside the campus bookstore messily spray-painted with the phrase “Build the Wall”. The students tending to this banner claimed it was their...

Colourful overlapping silhouettes of people voting in USA elections.

Irony: Rock the Vote

Anthony Karambelas, Staff Reporter March 26, 2019

California’s 2018 midterm election set a record for the highest turnout in recent memory, closing in on 65 percent. Sure, we have a long way to go before we reach the Organisation for Economic Co-operation...

The Second-Class Citizen at Cal State LA

Anthony Karambelas, Staff Reporter March 19, 2019

Walking through King Hall is a bit like strolling through a museum. It is a wonder that the 57-year-old walls still hold strong (probably just courtesy of the asbestos). For years, students and faculty...

Impaction: Another Step Eroding Shared Governance

Anthony Karambelas, Staff Reporter March 4, 2019

Sure, it's frustrating to see our campus take a left turn towards elitism. But, the new impaction proposal signals a lot more than an attempt to exclude those outside campus walls. It is a breach of trust...

Treat Yo’ Self

Monica Tamayo, Contributing Writer February 25, 2019

We are taught to love others, but rarely ourselves. Stop searching for love in others, and find it within. When you are this young with zero commitments, why not treat yourself as you would your partner? It...

Going Down With the Ship

Kyle Frizol, Editor In Chief February 18, 2019

In the face of insufferable politicians, elected officials, oil executives and corporations, climate change has been written off as an inconvenient improbability, swept behind the priorities of their profits,...

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Too Hunky to Hate: Why We Thirst Over Serial Killers

Becky Nava, Contributing Writer February 6, 2019

Film and media narratives love to pitch us pseudo-edgy male characters as desirable and sympathetic, even at the expense of the women they obsess over. One such character can be found in the Netflix show,...

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Grab ‘em by the Presidency: The Female 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates

Becky Nava, Contributing Writer February 6, 2019

The Trump administration’s attack on women, immigrants and other minority groups has been well-documented. His inauguration seems to have ushered in an unrelenting stream of misogyny, racism, homophobia...

King Hall elevator maintenance obstructing a large portion of the hallway in all five levels of the building

Time for the Stairs

Anthony Karambelas, Staff Reporter January 23, 2019

Forget heavy metal. It pales in comparison to this. The steel-on-steel screeching is not just unnatural, it’s frightening. But it’s one more thing to distract from your elevated heart rate, threatening...

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