Julianna Corrao stood on a cross country course, her hands on her knees, panting. Her junior year fall season was over, and she had finished three spots away from going to the state finals. The first-year psychobiology student vowed to start preparing for her senior year cross country season. She started training again, and by […]
Author Archives: Madeleine Wright
28th annual Cultural Night unites Japanese American generations
Kristen Sadakane, a fourth-generation Japanese American, does not celebrate many Japanese traditions or speak Japanese with her family. She said she has been Americanized – and people have pointed it out to her since she was a child. It started in the second grade when her classmate, a second-generation Japanese American, told her, “You’re not […]
UCLA Graduate Students Association renovating website
Graduate student government leaders are working to revamp their website to make it a more relevant information source for graduate students and align it with UCLA’s main server. The Graduate Students Association is currently collecting information through an online survey to gauge how students use the website. The survey will close Friday at midnight. GSA […]
Circle K’s pillow fight contest raises money for transitional house
A blue Power Ranger circled his opponent slowly, brandishing his color-coordinated foam knife to keep his enemy at bay. A sea of more than 400 people clad in brightly-colored costumes cheered the Power Ranger to victory as anticipation mounted for Circle K’s sixth annual Pillow Fight. Circle K International’s Pillow Fight 2014, which took place […]
Food Stamp Challenge at UCLA explores food insecurity
Pushing his cart through the aisles of Ralphs, Edwin Eshaghzadeh picked out peanut butter, bread, eggs, yogurt, tuna and black beans. Eshaghzadeh had only $31.30 to spend for a week’s worth of food, a budget he has not followed since he was a child and his family was on food stamps. When he was younger, […]
New English course caters exclusively to transfer students
A new class was added to the course catalog this quarter for about half of the students in the English major – transfer students.
UCLA welcomes input on UC sexual harassment policy update
Some student leaders are working to collect input from the UCLA community about proposed changes to the University of California‘s sexual harassment policy, which will also affect UCLA’s current policies. The UC Office of the President is updating the UC-wide policy on sexual harassment and violence to comply with recent revisions in the Violence Against […]