While debates continue on whether kombucha can cure a hangover, boost your health or is simply just a weird tasting tea with no benefits at all, there is one thing you can be sure: it costs a pretty penny. At four to five dollars a bottle in Whole Foods, Ralphs and Ackerman Student Union, an […]
Category Archives: The Quad
The Quad: The problem with people who dismiss microaggressions
UC Berkeley is infamously liberal. It’s the birthplace of the free speech movement, it stages protests that often make the front page of national dailies and its student body just elected a bipartisan student government headed by a member of the LGBTQ community. Which is why, when I first came across this column – a […]
Throwback Thursday: The medical benefits of LSD
It’s April 20, better known as the day everyone smokes a lot of weed. But today, we’re going to give attention to a different drug, one that was popular in the 1960s. A Daily Bruin article from 1967 describes how UCLA’s then-Neuropsychiatric Institute found that LSD may offer treatment for children suffering from child schizophrenia, […]
The Quad: Queer Culture Night celebrates LGBTQ identity
Many of us have probably heard of culture nights held on campus such as Vietnamese Culture Night, Taiwanese Culture Night and Korean Culture Night. Some of us may not be familiar with Queer Culture Night. When we think of culture, we think of an ethnic group. The queer community however, is a community of people […]
The Quad: Exploring Coachella Valley art exhibition Desert X
In these heady days on campus between Coachella’s first and second weekends, UCLA students who already attended Goldenvoice’s famous music festival slump over in lecture hall seats from lack of sleep. Those gearing up for Weekend 2, though, can hardly wait for Friday’s eastbound drive in festival traffic – prepared to prance onto the grounds […]
The Quad: What is it like to transfer out of UCLA?
Although many of us may have chosen to camp out in our rooms or flee to Coachella on the weekend of Bruin Day, our wariness of participating in the day’s festivities does not lessen the pride we have for being a Bruin. With another Bruin Day for transfer students coming up, the line of incoming […]
Throwback Thursday: Brewin’ up a Bruin Day
Prepare yourselves, Bruins. This weekend, thousands of bright-eyed, still-unbroken potential UCLA students and their families will descend upon our fair campus to gawk at Royce Hall, take pictures with the Bruin Bear statue, and maybe even commit the next four years of their lives to this university. Yes, it’s that time of year again. Saturday […]