Computer science, by itself, is irrelevant. Of course, you could generalize that argument to all fields of study, but at least when you study biology, even if you don’t apply it somewhere, you understand how cells and organisms, including yourself, function. However, with computer science, it does you no good to learn how to program […]
Category Archives: The Quad
The Five Stages of Apartment Hunting
Apartment hunting season is a time of stress, disillusionment and grief. As thousands of students at UCLA attempt to find apartments for next year, some people are driven to the brink. The trials and tribulations of students finding a place to live in Westwood Village is a very serious issue and is something the greater […]
Throwback Thursday, Week 2: The ‘Southern Campus’ moves westward
I was on the roof of Kerckhoff Hall yesterday, and I just had to take the chance to look at how UCLA developed. It was hard to imagine that when UCLA moved to Westwood in 1929, there was no Bruin Walk, no grassy hills besides Janss Steps and I probably would have be able to […]
Lost in Boelter: The Hottest Network Security Trick
Contrary to conventional wisdom, you can’t burn yourself by touching a firewall. Most of our everyday encounters with firewalls usually don’t go beyond scouring Google for a way to bypass them so that we can stream our movies. But the truth about firewalls is that they are critical to keeping organizations – and individual users […]
Maggie Zheng: UC Davis students’ demands to fire Chancellor Katehi should be supported
For the past three weeks, students at UC Davis have been camped outside the chancellor’s office calling for the resignation or firing of their current chancellor, Linda Katehi. The occupations began on March 11th and have persisted daily throughout finals week and spring break. Protesters have continued their efforts with marches across campus, expanding their […]
A closer look at UCLA’s fourth-ranked men’s basketball class of 2016
After a disappointing end to the UCLA men’s basketball season in which the Bruins failed to enter the NCAA Tournament, coach Steve Alford and his team will be fortified by the fourth-ranked recruiting class in the country, according to 247sports.com. The recruiting class, which also ranks first in the Pac-12 conference, includes two five-star recruits […]
Throwback Thursday, Week 1: The longest dance
Bruins were dance marathon-ing for diseases years before UCLA professor Michael Gottlieb identified acquired immune deficiency syndrome and the AIDS epidemic was discovered. The Dance Marathon we know today debuted in April 2002 to raise money for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, but in 1979, the event began when Greek life revived UCLA’s annual […]