“Balance Your Hyphen” Comic Strip Workshop

According to cartoonist, former Daily Bruin staffer and UCLA alumnus Alexander Hoffman, society is built around people who are either left-brained or right-brained. Regardless of which side your brain dominates, there’s an internal conflict that resides between the two sides. The “Balance Your Hyphen” comic strip workshop strives to alleviate this internal conflict through artistic […]

Queer Alliance hosts barbecue to celebrate National Coming Out Week

In celebration of National Coming Out Week, the members of UCLA’s Queer Alliance hosted an event known as BBQueer. This gathering encourages attendees to meet others with similar experiences. Fifth-year Chicana/o studies and Spanish student, Andres Serrano, shares his thoughts on why he believes this event is important to the UCLA community.

Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA party reunites patients, medical staff

On Sunday, Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA held a party to reunite families who have spent time at the neonatal intensive care unit taking care of their premature newborns. Watch highlights of the event, which took place at Wilson Plaza. Daily Bruin Video also interviewed one family that attended the event. Twins Grant and John McKinney […]

Student pilot flies to new heights

“When you’re in an aircraft, and you’re flying, you’re 3000 feet above your problems. You’re 3000ft above the stress, the anxiety, the fatigue, and everything else” says student pilot and fourth-year development studies student Justin Sherrill. Sherrill is a licensed pilot who not only takes to the sky to travel, but uses his piloting to […]