Almost six million people around the world choose to stay in the homes of complete strangers instead of at a hotel or hostel when they are travelling. These people, also known as couchsurfers, are members of a website called Couchsurfing.org. For them, strangers are just friends they haven’t met yet. Since 2004, Couchsurfing has connected […]
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Women’s golf advances to championship round under Lua’s lead
In golf, a fraction of a centimeter can spell the difference between success and failure. On Saturday, UCLA was four strokes from missing the NCAA championship.
Cotsen Institute hosts 40th anniversary events
The original version of this article contained multiple errors and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. Compared to the 24-century-old violin-shaped figurine a UCLA archaeologist excavated from the Early Bronze Age, 40 years seems like a paltry number. Nestled on the ground floor of Fowler Museum, the Cotsen Institute […]
Submission: AAP fosters scholastic success of low-income students
I really appreciated reading Ryan Nelson’s opinion piece, “Graduating low-income students must be a goal,” in the April 30, 2013, edition of the Daily Bruin. Graduating low-income students must be a goal of colleges and universities, especially after they have invested time and resources to admit them. Nelson also writes that “a good benchmark for […]
LCC Theatre Group show to deliver slapstick comedy
Sometimes the remedy for the winter blues is a big dose of comedy. The UCLA student theater group Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company has the cure with its new show, “Actors, Vampires & Other Cold-Blooded Creatures.” The show will run for two days and will feature different scenes connected by a common theme […]
UCLA startup VineLust helps cultivate wine preferences
The golden age of the algorithm is now. As Netflix’s personalized video recommendation algorithm catalyzed mass online film distribution and Pandora Radio’s music recommendation algorithm redesigned the way people find new music, so is VineLust’s taste algorithm pioneering the way wine will be recommended and distributed. VineLust is a startup wine e-commerce business and the […]
Revamping the hip-hop runway: ‘Fashion Rendition’ show looks into returning trends
MC Hammer didn’t wear his harem pants in alligator print or with heels and a tailored blazer.
But this style will be featured in UCLA’s Hip Hop Congress’ 12th annual fashion show, a production entirely created by and for UCLA students as part of Hip Hop Appreciation Month.