The summer is finally in full swing, meaning there’s also more time to engage in an activity often overlooked by busy students during the school year: picking up a good book or two. However, in our increasingly social-media dense world, what are college students actually reading for fun besides tweets, Snapchat captions and a few […]
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Week nine: Former football players sue UCLA, softball enters college world series
This Week in the News serves as The Quad’s space for reflection on current events at and around UCLA. Every week, Daily Bruin staffers will analyze some of the most significant stories to keep readers up to speed. UCPD search for missing student last spotted 2 weeks ago Marc Kalis, a fourth-year statistics student, has […]
Week five: Measles quarantine, Michelle Obama, Noam Chomsky and other new faces on campus
This Week in the News serves as The Quad’s space for reflection on current events at and around UCLA. Every week, Daily Bruin staffers will analyze some of the most significant stories to keep readers up to speed. Sure, midterms can be a bummer, but at least we’re halfway to summer? Week five saw a […]
The Quad: How UCLA’s startup scene and classes help entrepreneurial Bruins find their way
Starting a business is hard. Starting a business fresh out of college – or better yet, while still attending school – is even harder. Although UCLA offers majors in business economics and economics, neither major focuses much on starting a business. While the entrepreneurship minor offers more practical business classes, most students interested in starting […]
Alumnus Rickey Minor discusses his experience working backstage for Grammys
For 61 years, the Grammy Awards has provided viewers with often unforgettable performances from some of the biggest stars in the music industry. For many of these iconic Grammy moments, Rickey Minor, a UCLA alumnus and member of the Recording Academy, sat backstage helping to produce what viewers saw on television. From 2011 to 2013, […]
Throwback Thursday: Daily Bruin runs Trojan apology for 1991 vandalism of UCLA campus
In the Jan. 29, 1992 edition of the Daily Bruin, an apology letter from three USC students ran in the Opinion section. Just what exactly were they apologizing for? Let’s flash back a few months prior, to November. It was the week leading up to the biggest game of the year – the UCLA versus […]
The Quad: Pump it up at Powell with our student-generated finals week playlist
According to Business Insider, the most effective music to listen to while studying lacks lyrics, features sounds of nature or has a specific tempo. In general, music is a great way to get through repetitive and mindless tasks, like completing a problem set you already know how to do or memorizing important dates. So we […]