UCLA to host athletes village in LA’s 2024 Olympic bid

UCLA will host the Olympic Village in Los Angeles’ bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, city and university officials announced at a press conference Monday. Los Angeles is one of four cities in the running for the games, up against Rome, Paris and Budapest, Hungary. The International Olympic Committee will select the host city […]

Language learners exchange more than just conversation

Editor’s note: This is part one of a three part series in which Bruin contributors Sydney Walls and Laurel Scott follow two international students through the Dashew Center’s quarter-long Language Exchange Program. TRANSCRIPT: Bruin: Any first impressions so far? Maurer: It’s good. Quintero: Well I spoke to him in Spanish and he went like, “Oh”. […]

Set Six Episode 2: Forward to the future

Set Six returns this week with another honorary guest – this time focusing on the future of the UCLA men’s volleyball program. Sports editor Claire Fahy took the inaugural role last time with a look back at her two seasons on the beat, but freshman setter/hitter Micah Ma’a now shifts the conversation toward 2016 and […]

Suyama Project gives voice to Japanese American experiences

The Suyama Project, a UCLA Asian American Studies Center endowed research project was started in 2014 to give a voice to Japanese Americans’ experiences during World War II. The project is named after Eji Suyama, a Japanese American combat veteran who became a doctor after the war.   [gmedia id=35] TRANSCRIPT: LIN: It’s been 70 […]

Set Six Episode 1: Set One

Daily Bruin Sports is back with its latest and greatest podcast: Set Six. Every week, the UCLA men’s volleyball beat writers – Tanner Walters, Phil Share and Grant Sugimura – will break down what’s going on with the Bruins. This week, in our inaugural recording, Set Six is honored to bring former beat writer and […]