This article was updated Nov. 9 at 3:55 p.m. Paul Wislotski wants to heal the campus one bedsheet at a time. On Wednesday afternoon, Wislotski hung an easel and a white sheet on the corner of Strathmore Avenue and Charles E. Young Drive and offered a palette of colorful oil pastels to every student passing […]
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Student plays bagpipes at Janss Steps after lifting of lockdown
Andrew Pietersen spent the morning hiding at Bruin Buzz in Ackerman Union during the UCLA lockdown. In the afternoon after the lockdown was lifted, he grabbed his bagpipes from his apartment and began performing the Scottish instrument on the hill by Janss Steps. The third-year bioengineering student inherited the bagpipes from his grandfather in 2004 […]
Campus concerts, events canceled, postponed
All campus events including classes, public concerts and recitals have been canceled for Wednesday, officials announced. Activities will resume Thursday, said Neal Stulberg, co-director of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, in an email statement. He said Maryann Gray, assistant provost in the office of the Executive Vice Chancellor Scott Waugh, canceled all activities […]
UCLA student wins poetry award, reflects on brother’s influence
Dylan Karlsson creates poetry with his laptop’s keyboard, transforming individual words into an intricate story with references that reach into the depths of history, politics and literature. After winning the 2016 Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize for his poetry, the second-year English student will present a 13-minute selection of his poems alongside his brother […]
Album Review: ‘Skin’
Harley Streten had a lot of pressure to establish a definitive voice on his latest album in an era when kids are coming up with fake names and producing their own music on their laptops. Streten, an Australian electronic musician and producer known as Flume, became an international phenomenon after the release of his debut […]
Theater group spotlights mental health, sexuality in new musical
Eleven-year-old Jonny Perl crept into his parents’ room on a mission to sneak out and watch the movie “Rent,” something that he was forbidden to view as a child. Ever since, the play has shaped Perl’s outlook on the world, he said. Now a third-year communication studies student, Perl said the first time he saw […]
‘Amateur Strategies’ art workshop builds walls in Kerckhoff
Second-year political science student Weiwen Balter meets artist Cedric Tai in what they both claim as a “serendipitous” encounter. This chance meeting leads to the CAC month-long, weekly art series workshop “Amateur Strategies” in the Kerckhoff art gallery space. Inspired by the restriction of no drilling holes in the space, Tai’s interactive art piece invites […]