Love yourself like Kanye loves Kanye. Love yourself enough to cancel your already rescheduled show and the rest of your tour, go on a lengthy rant about Beyoncé, Jay Z and Hillary Clinton and ultimately, to hospitalize yourself because you recognize and understand that you’re mentally exhausted. I am Kanye’s biggest fan. Or at least […]
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Freeze Peach Friday: Protest Milo Yiannopoulos event, not shut it down
Milo Yiannopoulos is back at it again, and with his imminent return to campus, free speech has once again re-entered the UCLA news cycle. Yiannopoulos, the infamously anti-feminist speaker from Breitbart News Network and possible choice for President-elect Donald Trump’s press secretary, will reportedly return to UCLA sometime in February. That date may sound like […]
The Quad: Living with HIV in 2016 – has anything changed?
As we round out the last month of 2016, it’s become evident that we are not as progressive a country as we once thought. The nation elected a president whose candidacy ran on repealing the Affordable Care Act, which gave millions of Americans once-unattainable health care coverage. The Trump-supporting alt-right reared its ugly, white supremacist […]
Plugged In: Welcoming the new age of technology
We live in an age where everything we interact with is becoming “smart,” be that our phones, watches or even washing machines. The Internet of Things – where everything around us is tethered to the internet – is changing our lives and habits in dazzling and frightening ways. This blog series will explore the interesting […]
Wellness Wednesday: On-campus mental health resources
College may very well be the best four years of a person’s life, but reports show that college students are more stressed out nowadays than they have ever been before. This stress creates a breeding ground for mental health ailments, with approximately 37 percent of college students having depression, anxiety or stress. In recognition of […]
The Quad: What causes dessert cravings?
Whenever De Neve dining hall has deep dish s’mores I simply cannot resist getting some for dessert, topped with some vanilla ice cream. Although many of us crave dessert from time to time, we may not know where our cravings come from. Many people may enjoy dessert out of habit, since we do not get […]
Coffee Cultured: Comparing leading coffee chains’ holiday drinks
From latte art videos on Facebook to not-so-witty quotes on T-shirts, coffee is an indisputable aspect of our everyday lives. Every frappy hour is national news, and liking the taste of coffee is viewed as a mark of adulthood. I don’t claim to be a coffee expert that can easily discern between single-origin coffees and […]