Miles Goodloe walked through Campbell Hall nearly every day for four years, slipping in and out of tutoring sessions between classes, popping into counseling appointments and dropping by for quick mentoring sessions with advisors. “Family, tutors, counselors, friends, a shelter to come to that will feed you from time to time,” said Goodloe, a UCLA […]
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Faculty, alumni recount fight for passage of diversity requirement
After College of Letters and Science faculty voted down a diversity requirement proposal in 2004, the question for some was, “What do we do now?” Raymond Knapp, a musicology professor who had chaired the Academic Senate Undergraduate Council around that time, said he remembers having a hard conversation with former Undergraduate Students Association Council Academic […]
Alumni prove career potential of humanities education
People always asked Linta Kunnathuparambil what she was going to do with her degree once she graduated. If her family wasn’t asking, friends or other adults who were simply looking out for her asked. They didn’t know what she could do with a bachelor’s degree in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations. She didn’t know either, until […]
UCLA alumna opens high-end candy shop
UCLA alumna Rosie O’Neill and her now-fiance Josh Resnick went to an outdoor screening of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” on their third date. Afterward, they fantasized about creating a candy store for adults. When the two realized that no such shop existed near them, they launched the website for Sugarfina, a gourmet confections […]
Alumna combines market research expertise with media, entertainment business
Growing up playing various musical instruments and participating in musical bands, Kerry Edelstein developed an empathy for artists. The market research guru and UCLA Anderson School of Management alumna said she wanted to work in the media and entertainment businesses, but she wasn’t going to make it as a professional performer. Still, she needed an […]
Evolution of dining halls better suits student needs
Luis Martinez has seen old dining locations modernized and new ones built since he started working for dining services in 1986 as a first-year student. “I don’t feel like I graduated since I’ve been coming here for the last 27 years,” he said. Martinez began working at one of the dining halls as a student […]
Alumnus uses personal experience, poetry to help combat homelessness
Michael Gaulden first learned what it was like to be homeless when he was 7 years old, doing his homework under streetlights at night and living in homeless shelters with his mother and sister. “I was looked at as being less than a person,” Gaulden said. “I wished someone would just come up and give […]