My life as a rug: I may not get out much, but I know integrity when I see it

I come into contact with soap and water only once a year. I have stains that will never come out. People walk all over me. Newspapers and the orange chicken from Panda Express are my eau de parfum. I am the Daily Bruin carpet, and I am special. Seriously. Not many carpets could handle a […]

Science & Health: New technology shakes architecture’s foundations

Tucked away in a red brick building in the middle of North Campus are classrooms with turquoise-colored walls, winding staircases and machines that seem to make just about anything. Home to the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, Perloff Hall houses one of a handful of architecture schools across the country intent on expanding […]

Remembering Chernobyl

Thinking back to 20 years ago, it’s the splashing in yellow rainwater that Antonina Sergieff vividly recalls. The third-year graduate student didn’t know it then, but the unnatural color of those puddles in her hometown of Gomel, Belarus were due to radioactive particles spewing from a nuclear explosion 80 miles away. Surrounded by ancient pine […]

Funds search finds billions

$3,052,600,815. That is the amount of money the UCLA community accumulated during what officials are calling the most successful fundraising campaign in higher education history. Officially completed in December 2005 after the university had continually raised the bar on donations and gift-giving, final figures from Campaign UCLA, which started in 1995, will be released today. […]

Couples on campus reminisce, affirm relationships

Fourth-year philosophy student David Toney got down on bended knee in a Charles E. Young lecture hall last February and, with the periodic table of elements in the background and friends filling the room, proposed to his girlfriend. Now married, his wife, Courtney, said she knew a proposal was coming. She just didn’t know when. […]

Taking an interest in the public’s well-being

Walking into the law school Saturday morning, one could have mistakenly believed it was a weekday. The typical din of students and crowded hallways continued on into the weekend as students from all over Southern California convened at UCLA for the 21st Annual Southern California Public Interest Career Day. It was a day for networking, […]