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Category Archives: The Quad
Press Pass: Tennis in Tulsa
TULSA, Okla. — We’re going to start by getting the bad stuff out of the way. So, let’s begin with sports. Our trip to Tulsa ended, unfortunately, as a huge athletic disappointment. Not only did UCLA men’s tennis lose in an upset to Oklahoma in the quarterfinals of the 2016 NCAA Division I men’s tennis […]
Throwback Thursday, Week 9: The freeway that almost was
If you’ve ever jogged down Sunset Boulevard, you may have felt like you’re running next to a highway. More than 50 years ago, that might have become reality. In the 1950s and 1960s, the state wanted to build a freeway connecting the 405 Freeway with the 101 Freeway near Hollywood that would have passed through […]
One feminist’s thoughts on Milo Yiannopoulos and ‘Feminism is Cancer’
The event “Feminism is Cancer” may be misguided, but Yiannopoulos’ argument is worth a second glance.
Bruin Book Bag Guide: How to carry your campus essentials wisely
Backpack? Satchel? Rolling duffel bag? There are many options, but some are better than others.
Lost in Boelter: Speaking the pseudo-language
One of the lesser–known skills computer science students pick up in college is the ability to create pseudo-languages. I’m not talking about coding languages, but systems of interpretation, where certain words and phrases map to particular meanings. These pseudo-languages aren’t spoken, but reveal themselves in almost every part of the field, such as in network […]
LA’s Expo Line Extension: Both new, and nothing new
I remember riding the Expo Line on my way back home from school for the first time two days after it opened in 2012. It was hard to imagine that that same train in four years time would reach the sea and harder to imagine that 60 years prior, the Los Angeles region had done […]