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I wrote the personal essay to my college applications about the Wu-Tang Clan’s song “C.R.E.A.M.”
It’s a song about growing up in rough neighborhoods, dealing with gang violence and drugs and thinking that money is the only way out. That song summed up the way many of the kids in my high school seemed to think.
But I wanted something different. I wanted to get an education and change the world.
After an 9-2 start to the regular season, the No. 17 UCLA Bruins ended their first year under coach Jim Mora with a three-game losing streak capped off by a 49-26 drubbing by the Baylor Bears in the Holiday Bowl. UCLA was supposed to be the home team, as the game was played just two hours from Westwood, […]
SAN DIEGO — UCLA’s defense reverted to its old ways, and the Bruins trail the Baylor Bears 35-10 at halftime of the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl. The Bears gashed the Bruins’ defense for 342 total yards. Senior quarterback Nick Florence accounted for 196 of them. On the other side of the ball, Baylor’s defense sacked redshirt freshman quarterback […]
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. Richard Baum, a professor emeritus and a prominent scholar in Chinese comparative politics and Chinese foreign relations, died Dec. 14 at his home in Westwood after a four-and-a-half-year battle with cancer. He was […]
Marchers are currently occupying the Wilshire and Westwood boulevards, shutting down traffic from both directions.
