In the midst of tangled freeways, high-rises and industrial districts, it can be easy for Angelenos to lose touch with the city’s more natural dimensions.
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Underground tour of UCLA
Director of facilities management Leroy Sisneros leads a Daily Bruin reporter and photographers through the tunnel system hidden deep beneath the UCLA campus. Tours of the underground system are given monthly to deter student adventurers from navigating the dangerous tunnels on their own. The tour began around Murphy Hall, but there are multiple entrances on campus, all of which are illegal to access alone. (photos by asya tabdili, samia zaidi)
Underground tour of UCLA
Traveling around the steam tunnel system that runs under UCLA is no easy feat.
Poets of darkness
In a quiet residential neighborhood in Encino, there is a room where five young men convene to make deafening amounts of noise. This room is on the second story of Sean Sykes’ home, at the end of a wing, as if the architect knew that someday the rest of the family would need some peace and quiet in the rest of the house.
The air smells vaguely of dust and marijuana smoke, and a banner for a 1994 Thin Lizzy concert hangs on the wall. In this room, Sykes and the rest of the extreme metal band Statius gather for practices, joined sometimes by Sykes’ Irish wolfhound mix, Hayden.
The standouts: Hunter Bird
It is hard to imagine that at some point Hunter Bird, a third-year directing and musical theater student, considered the stage to be one of the last places anyone would find him. Fast forward seven years, and it’s nearly impossible to find him away from the spotlight.
The standouts: Brennan Mcnally
When third-year English student Brennan McNally arrived at UCLA, he was dead set on becoming a screenwriter.
The standouts: Henry Szeto
The whole week prior to the race had been raining and windy. On race morning, the UC Davis Sprint Triathlon was still on. When Henry Szeto arrived, he wrapped his gear in a garbage bag to keep it dry. Before he started, his two friends who had started the race in earlier waves had already quit. Another competitor had to be taken away in an ambulance for hypothermia.