It’s 3:30 p.m. on a weekday and odds are, you’re starving. With lunch already digested and dinner a few too many hours away, a snack is crucial during this desperate hour, especially if you still have a couple more lectures to stay awake through. But snacks can be a tricky ordeal, especially if you need […]
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The Quad: A farewell to late-night Bruin Cafe, a lukewarm welcome to Hedrick Study
Goodbyes don’t sit well with me. I’ve never liked them, and never will. When my pet fish Greeny – yes, he was green – died, I silently thanked my mom for flushing him down the toilet before I got home from school because she saved me from a hard goodbye. But Thursday, when I stumbled […]
The Quad: Memes can be problematic, but they’re here to stay
Countless UCLA inside jokes and a lot of fallen GPAs – such is the legacy left by Facebook meme page, “UCLA Memes for Sick AF Tweens,” which started during finals week fall 2016. Most of us were guilty of taking study “breaks” during last quarter’s finals week to religiously scroll down the page, earmarking posts […]
The Quad: Student activism against Piterberg demonstrates power of action
It’s Saturday of first week and I’m lying in bed, basking in the warmth of my space heater as I evade responsibility for one more hour. I open Facebook and peruse through the status updates and memes in front of me, most of them relating to social activism and reactionary outbursts regarding “political correctness.” Don’t […]
Freeze Peach Friday: President Trump must respect, uphold First Amendment
In general, shouting matches are reserved for fights between moody teenagers and their parents, or between contestants on reality shows. They should not be between the leader of the free world and the press tasked with reporting on him. Unfortunately, we elected a reality star into the highest office of the land and he’s bringing […]
Throwback Thursday: Overcast on Inauguration Day, 1985 and now
If there’s such thing as a tripartite coincidence, it’s happening on Friday. Storms are on the horizon on all fronts for students this week, be it the actual rain drops that will grace the drought-ridden California soil, the light precipitation in the east coast or the political storm that’s about to be sworn into Capitol […]
The Quad: How to party on the cheap
If there’s one thing more difficult than UCLA classes, it’s trying to party like Paris Hilton with the budget of a broke college student. And no, having money isn’t a matter of just “stopping being poor,” as Ms. Hilton once put it. Due to their, relatively speaking, low-cost high-benefit nature, broke students turn to frat […]