New club aims to encourage creativity, cathartic expression through slam poetry

A new campus organization focused on literary creativity is building a safe space for students to express themselves through writing and performance. SLAM uniVERSE, founded fall 2018 by UCLA students Justine Ramos, Maria Zamarripa and Alexandro Guerrero, is a slam poetry club that aims to teach UCLA students about the benefits of creative literary expression. […]

Campus Queries: What is the psychological basis for the UCLA-USC rivalry?

Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q: What makes the UCLA-USC rivalry appealing? A: Evolution makes humans prone to rivalries, but the brain does not always encourage it. Humans evolved to live in tribes, for which the presence of […]

Campus organizations to distribute hygiene kits to homeless veterans

Several groups on campus will team up to donate 500 hygiene kits to homeless veterans in Los Angeles. UCLA’s Transfer Student Center and Veteran Resource Center, along with Hunger Project Advocacy at UCLA, asked students to donate their unused hygiene products to create 500 kits, which will be handed out at the Department of Veterans […]

Asia Pacific Center’s Taiwan studies program receives $1 million endowment

UCLA’s Taiwan studies program received a $1 million endowment to create scholarships and programs to engage students on campus and Asian-Americans in the greater Los Angeles area. The Taiwan studies program, which was created in 2014, is under the UCLA International Institute’s UCLA Asia Pacific Center. It was launched using a three-year grant from the […]

Photo: CALPIRG shows students the influence bees have on Thanksgiving meals

Students at the UCLA chapter of the California Public Interest Research Group, an advocacy group, showed students on Bruin Walk on Tuesday how Thanksgiving dinners would be limited without bees as part of its Save the Bees campaign. If bees die out, everything from green beans to apple pie to squash would be lost from […]

UCPD searching for man involved in armed robbery of UCLA student

University police are searching for a man involved in an armed robbery Friday. A man approached a UCLA student on Ophir Drive near Midvale Avenue, waved a gun over the student’s head and demanded he take everything out of his pockets. The man took the student’s property and fled on Ophir Drive. He was last […]