I am so excited for the new Under Armour deal UCLA just signed, the athletic gear we all get will be so cool. … But of course I won’t be getting any because I’m leaving. The rest of the student-athletes will, and I keep forgetting that I won’t be on the track team next year. […]
Author Archives: Nicholas Scarvelis
UCLA’s Choral Union and Philharmonia take on Verdi’s ‘Requiem’
When the final notes of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece “Requiem” finished echoing through Milan’s San Marco church, ringing around the high-vaulted ceiling and rattling the baroque chandelier, there was an uncomfortable silence. “This was a setting where you weren’t allowed to applaud at the end,” said Kanwal Sumnani, a third-year psychology student and chorus manager of […]
Hammer Museum’s reading discussion series pays tribute to Alice Munro
In the mid 1970s, Alice Munro’s short stories had to travel more than 200 miles across Ontario from rural Wingham to Toronto to get published. But for Mona Simpson – a UC Berkeley undergraduate at the time – the stories weren’t traveling far enough. “I’ve been reading Alice Munro since college,” said Simpson, award-winning novelist […]