Long Story Short – May 21, 2012

May 21, 2012 ““ Long Story Short gets a taste of the tea of Taiwan, the stories of Prime magazine’s 2012 spring edition and the spiritual messages behind spoken word poetry. As a new social change club on campus, Bruins for Taiwan strives to raise awareness regarding the struggles Taiwan faces with being recognized as an independent country.

Ginny Wu, a second-year economics student, and Robin Lee, a second-year global studies student, talk about last Thursday’s event called “Tea 101 and Tea Ritual.”

Then, Ken Huang, a second-year psychology student and photo editor of Prime, shares the quirky stories featured in the magazine, which hits newsstands tomorrow.

To end the night, Long Story Short invites Adam Provinchain, a third-year mechanical engineering student, to share his spoken word poetry with a spiritual message.

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Softball unable to mount comeback against Hofstra, falls 7-2 in NCAA Los Angeles Regional

On a night in which UCLA softball grew frustrated with the home plate umpire and struggled to find their footing early against the nation’s leading pitcher in earned run average, the Bruins’ late rally against Hofstra seemed too good to be true for the hosts of the NCAA Los Angeles Regional.

The No.

Protesters interrupt UC Board of Regents meeting

Protesters holding signs and dressed in orange jumpsuits briefly interrupted the UC Board of Regents meeting in Sacramento Wednesday morning.

About 20 UC students, employees, teaching assistants and tutors broke into a chant and circled the audience, forcing the regents to take a recess and enter closed session.

Among them were several UCLA students, including Alex Yu a fifth-year history student and world arts and culture graduate student Matt Sandoval.

Students chanted, “That’s the sound of the students-working on the chain gang” and held up signs with messages such as “Long live the Guillotine.”

The regents had been discussing the draft of the Robinson-Edley report on UC protest policies before the chanting broke out.

Compiled by Katherine Hafner, Jenna Belhumuer and Suzy Strutner, Bruin reporters.

Album Review: 'Movies' by the Stripminers

*Movies
The Stripminers
Suckerpunch Records
4 paws*

Doing a Wikipedia search for the Stripminers brings up no results related to the slick rock group led by Brett Anderson (of the Donnas) and Paul Stinson (of the Radishes). That is really a shame too, because more people should get to know about the band’s terrific sound.

The band’s full-length debut album “Movies” features plenty of slow rock jams as well as a good mix of more punk-driven tracks and even some alt-country-influenced songs.