I am graduating from UCLA more confused than when I came in. College was supposed to teach me the theories of economics, prepare me for a career in money-making and transform me into a mature, well-functioning adult. I am getting a degree in economics, so I can explain with graphs why I’ll be unemployed this […]
Author Archives: Ishita Gambhir
Professor influences character of Marshall on ‘How I Met Your Mother’
Professor Noah Garrison invited his friend Carter Bays to an Alanis Morissette concert in spring 2006. Six months later, he watched their concert experience reenacted on TV. The creators of the sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” Bays and Craig Thomas, borrowed from their own lives when writing the show. They created the character of […]
Second Take: Celebrities’ support of presidential candidates not enough to sway
The popular vote totals for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primary came within 1 percent of each other. And some scholars suggest one person may have helped push the nomination Obama’s way: Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey was one of several celebrities who endorsed Obama in 2008. People came to associate the trust […]
Second Take: Solange’s album drop a product of new era of cross-media releases
Solange Knowles quietly dropped her latest album over the weekend, but her artwork did not go unnoticed. The younger of the Knowles sisters won the internet by pairing her new album, “A Seat at the Table,” with a digital art book of poetry and photos that celebrates black beauty and confronts the realities of contemporary […]
Q&A: Grammy nominee James Bass talks new role at UCLA school of music
James Bass flicks his baton to cue musicians when he performs with a choir. But in rehearsal he emerges as a teacher, his choir room becoming his classroom and his vocalists his students. Bass, the new director of choral studies in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, has made his career in classical voice […]
Q&A: ‘The Beauty in You’ art gallery aims to foster body positivity
Danielle de Bruin has her mom’s eyes. She loves her eyes because she can keep a small piece of her mom with her all the time. De Bruin, a third-year sociology student, said her mom is the most intelligent woman she has ever met. A photo of de Bruin’s eyes are featured in an art […]
Art gallery brings students closer to incarcerated LA youth
In a short poem, Diamond penned that love is like a bullet wound that is barely healing. The teenage boy did not intend to write about love in the context of violence; it was an organic thought. But Diamond felt comfortable using a violent metaphor, his mentor said. Growing up around guns made him feel […]