The high summer temperatures have led students to seek breezier alternatives to encasing their legs in tight denim. Studentsseek comfort in culottes, palazzo pants and other wide-legged bottoms made of lighter fabrics, such as linen and silk, which allow for air circulation and ease of movement during long weekday schedules.
Author Archives: Linda Xu
UCLA club teaches beginning needlework, forms tight-knit community
Yoon Lee’s mother taught her how to knit in the sixth grade, using chopsticks as needles. The third-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student has been knitting ever since and started the i-KNIT-iative knitting club her first year at UCLA. At the club’s Monday night meeting, she joined approximately 15 other students at a round […]
Alumna uses experience of growing up in LA to portray lead in coming-of-age play
Estela Garcia first read Sandra Cisneros’ coming-of-age novel, “The House on Mango Street,” in the ninth grade. She said it was the first time she had encountered anything that reflected her life growing up in South Los Angeles. Now, the alumna plays the story’s main character, Esperanza Cordero, in the Greenway Court Theatre’s production of […]
Second Take: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ draws from past, offers timeless lessons
Imagine a society in which the state forbids women from owning property, speaking out of turn or even reading. “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a winner in five categories at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, presents a United States in the near future that imposes such archaic rules on women. The state punishes reading, for example, by […]
Students personalize dorm rooms with photos, decorations
Wesley Chioh has photographs of Soviet architecture and Galapagos beaches tacked to his dorm room wall. The pictures represent all the places the second-year geography student travelled during his breaks from the Singaporean military and serve as reminders of each destination. The New Student Advisor likes to display his photographs for incoming students to see […]
Restaurant Review: Siam Sunset
I used to walk with my grandmother along the dusty streets of Shanghai every morning to buy a breakfast of fried sesame balls, crispy strips of dough and plastic bags filled with delicious soy milk. When we got home, she would snip off a corner of the bag, drain the milk into a bowl while […]
Alumnus reflects on past experiences to cook up his own restaurant
Brian Huskey began his culinary career at the age of 19, flipping burgers at The Grove to pay the bills in his Midvale Avenue apartment. A few years later, Huskey graduated from UCLA in 2003 with an economics degree and summer internships at Merrill Lynch under his belt, but decided against going to graduate school […]