On Sunday morning, I showed up to Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles with a friend wearing a bargain-bin negligee set and a black leather puffball choker, ready to strut my stuff. Some eight or so months after writing on the Women’s March, in which I described myself as a “nontypical attendee of a march […]
Author Archives: Kelly Yeo
Blogging my way to securing the Quad’s place at the Daily Bruin -30-
“The Daily Bruin has a blog? I didn’t know!” I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard that reaction, especially in my earlier years at The Bruin. It’s strange now when I hear of people reading my blog posts, sharing them widely and appreciating them for what they are – a distinctly modern addition […]
The Quad: Exploring Coachella Valley art exhibition Desert X
In these heady days on campus between Coachella’s first and second weekends, UCLA students who already attended Goldenvoice’s famous music festival slump over in lecture hall seats from lack of sleep. Those gearing up for Weekend 2, though, can hardly wait for Friday’s eastbound drive in festival traffic – prepared to prance onto the grounds […]
Trivial Pursuits Tuesday: Campus Wi-Fi
The Quad unleashes its newest weekly podcast called Trivial Pursuits Tuesday. Each week, the Daily Bruin’s blogging section will express the trivial campus concerns students have itched to deliver since their freshman days. This week, Quad Editor Kelly Yeo is joined by Assistant Opinion Editor Keshav Tadimeti, where they talk about one of the biggest […]
The Quad: The activism on display at LA’s Women’s March needs to go further
If there’s anything I learned from attending the Los Angeles Women’s March last weekend, it’s that energizing and engaging the masses is a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. To be honest, I wouldn’t consider myself a firebrand grassroots protester or organizer. However, like many Americans and citizens of other nations around the […]
Throwback Thursday: History of white student movements at UCLA
White supremacy in America is like a bad cold in an immunocompromised person – at first annoying and tough to shake off, yet highly capable of turning dangerous as the virus takes its toll on the human body. Here at UCLA, this virus is clearly alive and kicking. Since Donald Trump’s election to the presidency […]
The Quad: Shouting into the void – social media in the 2016 election
This post was updated Nov. 10 at 1:15 p.m. It is time to pick ourselves up, dry off our tears and start tweeting again, even as thousands of UCLA students rose up in angry protest last night as Donald J. Trump was declared the next president of the United States. For many millennial-age college students […]