TIJUANA, Mexico — Laughter, shy smiles and curious eyes fill the front yard of La Tribu de Jesus children’s shelter when UCLA students from BruinHope arrive on the dusty, sunbaked fringes of metropolitan Tijuana.
Author Archives: Forrest Lee
Track and field trumps USC in dual meet
Saturday was the first time any member of the UCLA women’s track and field team tasted victory against USC. And for the first time since 2006, they were able to join the men’s team in a combined victory lap to celebrate both teams’ victories against their USC counterparts in the dual meet.
Men’s golf begins Pac-12 championships
For the UCLA men’s golf team, the journey to being crowned Pac-12 champions begins today at the Los Angeles Country Club. The Bruins will send six golfers to the tournament: seniors Pontus Widegren and Pedro Figueiredo, junior Anton Arboleda, redshirt sophomore Manav Shah, sophomore Jay Hwang and freshman Jonathan Garrick.
Men’s tennis to square off with USC for Pac-12 regular-season title
USC, which holds claim to the last four NCAA titles, is the only team standing between UCLA men’s tennis and a Pac-12 title. Coach Billy Martin is expecting a crowd upward of 1,000 fans when the No. 3 Bruins face off against the No. 4 Trojans today at the Los Angeles Tennis Center. According to […]
Professor and graduate student develop battery-like product
Maher El-Kady hurried to the RadioShack in Westwood on a summer afternoon to buy an LED lamp.