Cindy Nguyen sits on the floor of her apartment late at night, wielding a single, small hook that she uses to manipulate different lengths of thread. First legs, then a body, then a single horn. Like magic, a unicorn begins to appear from a pile of rainbow-colored yarn. For Nguyen, a third-year geography student, killing […]
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Students retain an appetite for Candy Crush long after its peak
Joanna Li sat toward the back of her life science class, staring at candies on her smartphone screen and anticipating the final move that would beat the level. With the stroke of her finger, three red candies aligned and disappeared with a poof. She sighed in relief as she moved on to the next level. […]
Girl scouts make UCLA students’ walk to campus sweeter
Poppy Miller, a 12-year-old girl scout, held her mother’s oversized iPhone 6 in her small hands, punching in the letters of a UCLA student’s Venmo username. She took orders and distributed Thin Mints and Samoas to the people who had stopped at her troop’s booth on Bruin Walk, busily working to help her new customers. […]
Alumna uses MAC, New York Fashion Week as foundation for career
Andrea Tran dabbed an eyeshadow brush in a light shade of eyeshadow and spread it on her eyelids. She then applied a darker shade to the outer corners and blended the colors together with a blending brush to fade the colors in the popular smokey eye look. “It’s an obsession,” Tran said. “It’s kind of […]
EDM group creates hybrid form of electronic music from classical roots
Stephen Spies was working on a student film, “Young Americans,” when the director asked him to score an electronic beat for it. Spies only had experience with classical pieces, however, so he tried creating electronic sounds by recording himself clapping or sliding his fingers down a bass guitar to make it sound like a drop. […]
‘Light out of Darkness’ illuminates stories of Holocaust survivors
As a young woman, Sophie Zeidman Hamburger had faced death before the German Nazi soldiers at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. At the age of 93, she told her story to a group of eager students in the main room of Hillel at UCLA. Andrew Rosenstein, a young Jewish man who had never known the horrors of […]
Film festival promotes Latin American and Iberian culture, languages
The sounds and rhythms of the Spanish guitar swirled through the mind of an 80-year-old man, making him feel 17 again. The old man was watching “Bajarí: Gypsy Barcelona,” a movie about a famous Barcelonian flamenco dancer, which triggered a memory of learning flamenco during his teenage years. Personal stories like the old man’s remind […]