Shawndeez Jadalizadeh embarked on a four-month solo journey through her home country, which she had never visted before, in the spring of 2015. “I was slightly terrified, but I put aside my fears and fantasies to enjoy the present, to enjoy Iran,” wrote Shawndeez, a graduate student in gender studies, in a memoir about her […]
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UCLA students start Tender Lovin’ Package to deliver food and songs
Chris Flood was bewildered when a student showed up at his doorstep, delivered a care package full of snacks to him and began singing the national anthem. Despite his confusion, Flood, a third-year pre-business economics student, asked the other people in his apartment to watch, and they began singing along, he said. “It was four people […]
UC students and professors participate in summer excavation in Greece
Marianne Simpson spent the summer after her first year of college digging hundreds of relics and bones out of the ruins of an ancient Greek city. “I felt like I was immersed in the ancient world,” Simpson said. “It’s really cool to have that opportunity to be touching things from (thousands of) years ago.” Simpson, […]
UCPD investigating online comment made toward sorority
University police are investigating an online comment made toward the Alpha Phi sorority Monday. The comment, written in the comments section of the sorority’s recruitment video on YouTube, was a short written excerpt from the video manifesto released by Elliot Rodger, the man who killed six people in Isla Vista, California, in May 2014. Police […]
LGBT center to kick off National Coming Out Week with resource fair
The LGBT Campus Resource Center will hold its sixth annual resource fair Friday in anticipation of National Coming Out Week, which begins Monday. The fair’s purpose is for campus and community LGBT organizations to offer resources and information to students, said Kevin Medina, the program coordinator for the LGBT Resource Center. Students can also eat […]
De Neve Grab ‘N Go wraps up old menu to offer custom sandwiches
A new sandwich bar that allows students to custom-order sandwiches opened last Thursday in the De Neve Grab ‘N Go location. Similar to a Subway station, students visiting the sandwich bar tell the worker behind the counter what they would like on their sandwich, and generally leave the Grab ‘N Go location with their sandwich […]
UCLA initiates program to support first-generation college students
UCLA’s first-ever program for first-generation college students held its Welcome Soiree on Tuesday night in Covel Commons. First To Go, which was created in June, will focus on providing resources, networking opportunities and programming specifically for the first-generation students at UCLA, said Symone Morales, First To Go’s program coordinator. “If you are literally the first […]