Author Archives: Audrey Kuo

On the night before the California Supreme Court hears oral arguments concerning Proposition 8, thousands of demonstrators gathered in candlelight vigils across the state.

San Francisco “”mdash; The Committee on Finance of the UC Board of Regents voted 9-1 Thursday to remove a section that would have increased student fees by 9.4 percent from the proposed budget it was sending to the state legislature.

At first glance, the story line seems almost familiar. He left his hometown in Hunan just after high school, at the same time as other young people in his town.
He arrived in a new city, lived in dorms and spent four years on a large campus with thousands of others dressed in matching blue shirts.

My cousin Alex and I like to play a kind of translation game, challenging each other to come up with concise ways to express Chinese idioms in English.
Sometimes, we agree there are no good substitutes.

“I wonder if there’s protocol for this in the Daily Bruin’s ethics policies,” I thought as I squatted in front of a numerologist whom I had just handed 20 yuan so that he would answer some questions about the factory compound behind him.

Though images of Royce Quad and a Bruin football squad adorn the walls, the clothing sold here is unlike what students are used to finding when they stroll into Ackerman Union.

At the I Love LA store in the Los Angeles International Airport, a display offers tourists a choice of two UCLA hats and a blue visor.