Fourth year Maribel Garcia inspires her Zumba students with her passion in all areas of life. She told Daily Bruin how she keeps up her remarkable energy.
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Photographer Nolan Isozaki inspired by the pretty and the gritty
Nolan Isozaki clung to the side of a mountain, watching stones dislodged by his backpack tumble down 14,000 feet to the ground. Freezing wind whipped around him as the sun’s light faded over the Rocky Mountains, muffling the warning shouts of his friends in the valley below. Isozaki clasped his Fujifilm X20 camera with frozen […]
Carrying a love for comedy and theater beyond graduation
A young man with big-rimmed glasses, a beard and a naked baby doll told puns from center stage as the audience’s laughter grew. Fourth-year linguistics student Landen Baldwin said he tries to be lighthearted during any situation. He has pursued acting since the age of 7. However, it wasn’t until he played the Mad Hatter […]
Alumna showcases graduates’ individuality with custom cap toppers
Leanna Maaz embarks on a scavenger hunt every time she travels abroad. In each city she explores, she collects a souvenir that contains the name of the city and arranges the items in a scrapbook to document her journey. “For any restaurant I go to, I collect the menu, and I grab a napkin with […]
Poets’ bond paves the way for sharing experiences as people of color
Some friends finish each other’s sentences, but Alberto Loaiza and Kevin Yang finish lines of each other’s poetry. Loaiza, a fourth-year English and Chicana/o studies student, and Yang, a third-year world arts and cultures and African American studies student, are two of four members of UCLA’s slam poetry team and staff members for The Word […]
Love Apptually: Going from new-fangled group dating to old-school techniques
Each week in “Love Apptually,” Daily Bruin staffers Nico Correia and Natalie Green will take turns attempting to find love in all of the wrong places: dating applications. To help thousands of loveless students, but mostly themselves, Correia and Green will test run and rate five dating apps over the course of one quarter. My […]
Second Take: My Indian culture should not be used as a marketing tool
I chose to eat school lunches of cheese pizza and chocolate milk over homemade spiced vegetables, curry and rice as an elementary school kid, but not because I hated Indian food. I can’t get enough of the blast of flavor that comes with every bite. But outside the Indian community, Indian food is notorious for […]