For the next two weekends, UCLA students will be flocking to Indio, California, for the infamous Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. With a particularly eclectic lineup this year, featuring artists from Radiohead to Porter Robinson, music enthusiasts of every genre will find their home among the range of artists. However, with such a steep […]
Category Archives: The Quad
The Quad: How student lifestyle factors affect our appetites
Some days we may have intense cravings for food and are more hungry than usual. On other days, we may feel less hungry. There are many factors that can affect students’ appetites, from stress because of upcoming midterms to the amount of effort required to obtain food. New living situations, such as moving to an […]
The Quad: The Hill lacks healthy, nutritious quick-serve options
It was 4 p.m. on the first day of spring quarter. Instead of being inside my cool dorm room after a tiring day of back to back classes, I was standing in the middle of the Sunset Village patio frantically checking the nutritional analysis of the food options available at the quick-serve restaurants while trying […]
The Quad: Private donations should not be viewed as state funding substitute
Behold the UCLA campus. Straight ahead is the Powell Library, named after Lawrence Clark Powell, a previous university librarian whose son is a recent donor of $5 million to UCLA Library. To your left is the Luskin School of Public Affairs, made possible in part due to the $100 million donation of alumnus Meyer Luskin. […]
Throwback Thursday: Expanding one’s mind through 1979’s Experimental College
If the university brochures and talking heads on TV are to be believed, college is a time for exploration and self-discovery. Indeed, UCLA has offered opportunities for students to challenge themselves and expand their intellectual horizons both in and outside the classroom. And then there was the UCLA Experimental College. A 1979 advertisement in the […]
The Quad: USAC’s history of slate politics
The sun is out, the magnolias are in bloom and students are starting to spend more and more time in Powell and YRL. This can only mean one thing – winter quarter is coming to a close. When we return from spring break, USAC election season will start to pick up. I remember last year […]
The Quad: Why Calexit probably will – and should – remain a pipe dream
On March 7, Los Angeles turned out in dismal numbers, approximately 11.45 percent of registered voters, to vote in the local election. While the mayoral race and measures like S and H didn’t quite interest many Bruins enough to vote, the 2018 ballot is poised to be much more exciting. In 2018, California will elect […]