Category Archives: Podcasts

Some Indian students at UCLA have found a way to keep in touch with their culture by joining traditional competitive dance teams. UCLA is home to three such teams: UCLA Nashaa, Bataaka Nu Shaak, and Bruin Bhangra. Each showcases a distinct style of dance and competes at a national level, such as this Memorial Day, […]

Innovation Nation (A Series on Young Entrepreneurs) Part 3: Young Musicians Though entrepreneurs are traditionally thought of in a strictly professional setting, UCLA students are consistently demonstrating the existence of entrepreneurship in the music industry. First-year neuroscience student Roozbeh Riahi, second-year international development studies student Alex Mercier and first-year ethnomusicology student Amir Thomas share their […]

Almost six million people around the world choose to stay in the homes of complete strangers instead of at a hotel or hostel when they are travelling. These people, also known as couchsurfers, are members of a website called Couchsurfing.org. For them, strangers are just friends they haven’t met yet. Since 2004, Couchsurfing has connected […]

Opinion columnists Ryan Nelson and Alexandra Tashman sit down with radio reporter Stephen Phan minutes after the USAC election results are announced to analyze the results. They discuss why the Bruin Diversity Initiative failed, what it means that it will not be a three-slate council and how marketing and branding possibly affected the election results.

Years after his own UCLA graduation in the late 70’s, history major William Beigel still had the same innate eagerness to learn about the past. At 40 years old, curiosity about his father’s cousin’s disappearance during WWII led Beigel to conduct research into the history of both the war and the man’s past in an […]

UCLA has purchased one of its largest pieces of art, the literary map “City in Mind: A Lyrical Map of the Concept of Los Angeles,” thanks to the long running Collecting Los Angeles initiative by the UCLA Special Collections, seeking out cultural documents and art found within Los Angeles’ communities. Reporter Stephen Phan speaks to […]