Category Archives: Podcasts

Mar. 7, 2012 – This past weekend, second-year communications and international development studies student Kausar Mohammed was a co-producer and performer in “The Vagina Monologues.” Famous for its unabashed bluntness, “The Vagina Monologues” is an episodic play that recounts true stories relating to female sexuality. It addresses issues ranging from rape and domestic violence, to tampons and types of clothing a vagina would wear. The on-campus production was sponsored by the Social Awareness Network for Activism through Art and the Bruin Feminists For Equality, to raise funds and awareness for V-Day, an international organization with a mission to end violence against women. The Daily Bruin speaks with Mohammed to discuss her views on feminism as well as the play’s criticisms.

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Mar. 1, 2012 – With massive budget cuts threatening nearly every department in the UC system, some were worried that cuts to police services would affect campus safety. However, crime rates have largely remained stagnant, and have even decreased in a few key areas. Nancy Greenstein, director of Police Community Services at UCLA, explains how community policing practices, along with more effective use of funds have kept crime at a minimum amidst the recession.

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Feb. 27, 2012 – This past Saturday, artists David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young led
a fruit meditation at the Armand Hammer Museum in Westwood. Burns, Viegener and
Young collaborate on several fruit-related projects under the title Fallen Fruit. Some of their
projects include making maps of “public fruit,” or fruit that can be picked by the public, in
neighborhoods; nocturnal fruit forages, in which the three lead a group of people in picking
public fruit just after nightfall; and public fruit jams, in which people come together with their
own fruit to make different kinds of jam. Their workshop at the Hammer Museum was Fallen
Fruit’s first fruit meditation, which had about 30 participants. Daily Bruin Radio attended and
observed the meditation.

Corresponding A&E blog post: Public Fruit Meditation helps participants make best of life’s lemons

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Feb. 24, 2012 – Ethnomusicology professor Tara Browner’s dependence on coffee developed long after the stereotypical undergraduate years in college. Upon tasting her first latte after finishing graduate school, her passion grew quickly and she progressed from owning a basic espresso machine to investing in the true aficionado’s La Pavoni machine (pictured). She sat down with Daily Bruin Radio to discuss how coffee has become integral for her, both in the classroom and in everyday life.

This is a feature story for the Daily Bruin’s Coffee Week.

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Feb. 22, 2012 – For many of us here at UCLA, the newly renovated Charles E. Young Research Library has become a haven for the working student and for the deep-thinking, coffee-drinking intellectual. UCLA’s Café 451 in Charles E. Young Research Library is not just a great place to get coffee and think, but homage to one of American history’s greatest authors. “Fahrenheit 451″ is a dystopian novel about a society in which the owning of books has become banned by the government; all existing books are burned by “firemen” who drive around in fire trucks and literally burn piles of books, and entire houses, to the ground.

This is a feature story for the Daily Bruin’s Coffee Week.

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Feb. 16, 2012 – Sexual representation is all around us, but how do we detect that exactly? Professor Christopher Mott holds a seminar on Pornography and the Politics of Sexual Representation to teach students how to discern subliminal messages presented by the media. However, they are beginning to learn that there are more issues regarding sex, culture and media that go beyond pornography. In response, Mott has cultivated an environment where students can discuss how these issues have influenced American culture using both an academic and emotional approach.

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Feb. 9, 2012 – Every month, the UCLA Mobile Clinic Project, or MCP, provides medical, social and nutritional services to homeless and under-served people in West Hollywood. The UCLA School of Nursing joined MCP last year and provides a phlebotomy lab, which is a lab where patients can have blood drawn for a number of tests. The lab provides a service which the homeless and underprivileged of West Hollywood may not otherwise be able to receive.

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