When I first decided to apply to the Daily Bruin, I expected that working as a video journalist would be exciting and glamorous. And to an extent, my expectations were met. I got VIP media passes to Outside Lands, flew in an airplane with a student who was also a pilot and sat with ex-gang […]
Author Archives: Patricia Ferido
Student pilot flies to new heights
“When you’re in an aircraft, and you’re flying, you’re 3000 feet above your problems. You’re 3000ft above the stress, the anxiety, the fatigue, and everything else” says student pilot and fourth-year development studies student Justin Sherrill. Sherrill is a licensed pilot who not only takes to the sky to travel, but uses his piloting to […]
Student-run garden sprouts food on campus
Located in Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, the DIG UCLA garden coalition is a student-run organization designed to educate and bring together the greater UCLA community through the creation of an organic garden. Sprouting peas, tomatoes and fruits while fighting pests, students and faculty alike are invited to participate in the gardening, as well as take […]
UCLA Adaptive Recreation offers biking and basketball
Michael Garafola and Alvin Malave started off as participants in the UCLA Adaptive Recreation program. They both enjoyed it so much that they started volunteering their time to help keep the program running. Now they are the coordinators of the program, which offers therapeutic recreation activities for both disabled and able-bodied people. One of the […]
Video: UCLA Professor Michael Chwe turns stones into lithophones
In the classroom, UCLA Professor Michael Chwe lectures about political science and game theory but outside of the classroom, Professor Chwe enjoys making instruments from store-bought materials. Professor Chwe invites us into his home where he demonstrates how to turn granite tiles into a lithophone. “You might pick up a stone and you hit it […]