This fall, students will delve into the hidden meanings of “Get Out’s” bloody brain extractions for course credit. Professor Tananarive Due’s fall course, African American studies 188A: “Special Courses in African American Studies: Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror Aesthetic,” will explore “Get Out” and other black horror films through the lenses of racism, […]
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Video: Riley Grant: Pique Podcast
Riley Grant, the creator of Pique and a first-year pre-business economics student, tells the Daily Bruin how he got involving with podcasting, why he enjoys it and what he hopes listeners get out of his audio shows.
Video: Last-minute packing tips
It’s all too easy to forget the practical things you take for granted at home. Check out this list of packing tips we’ve compiled to help get you through your first year at UCLA.
Autry Museum photo exhibition highlights Mexican-American community
The photographers of “La Raza” sifted through thousands of memories embedded in the images they had taken 50 years ago. “La Raza,” a Chicano newspaper turned magazine that ran from 1967 to 1977, documented the Mexican-American community’s strife for equal rights through articles and photographs of its volunteer photographers. But 50 years after its conception, […]
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 […]
Alumni to produce, write film with New York Times bestselling author
This post was updated Sept. 23 at 12:18 p.m. Dave Pelzer’s first book happened to make The New York Times Best Sellers list on the day of his first-ever meeting with a Hollywood producer in 1997. Around the same time, 10-year-old David Goldblum plucked Pelzer’s book from an elementary school library shelf as required reading. […]
First-year student posts weekly podcast geared to young audience
Riley Grant went to a high school party during his senior year not to dance or drink, but to conduct field research for his podcast. In the first episode of his podcast, Pique, the first-year pre-business economics student investigated why young people consume alcohol. By interviewing different people at varying levels of intoxication after getting […]