A single picture stands out from the infamous dozen that were leaked to the public from Abu Ghraib prison in late 2003.
Author Archives: Frank Shyong
Poster children
Every morning, third-year computer science student Matt Sperry wakes up to a big picture of Kurt Russell astride a motorcycle, clad in a leather vest and an eye patch.
Remembering a journalist
New York Times columnist David Brooks delivered the sixth annual Daniel Pearl memorial lecture Tuesday to a capacity audience gathered at Korn Convocation Hall to remember the prominent Wall Street Journal reporter.
Students struggle when facing flu season, midterms
First-year undeclared student Minnie Chan tried to avoid getting sick before her midterms by downing a glass of Airborne health formula and going to bed early every night, but she succumbed to illness last Sunday after several of her floormates caught the flu.
Agent’s book shares secrets of industry
One spring day during the late 1980s, a group of UCLA students commandeered a set of a Western town and waged a paintball fight in the back lot of a Warner Brothers’ compound.
YouTube makes hot venue for amateur artists
For a growing number of UCLA performers, pricey venues, low budgets, agents and red tape are nonissues. Their audience, sometimes tough to please, is a mere click of the mouse away.
Would-be engineer shifts gears to acting
He stars as a 35-year-old father on the ABC sitcom “Notes from the Underbelly,” but the 23-year-old Sunkrish Bala couldn’t feel farther from the responsibilities his serious character tackles on air.