LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After a season of getting knocked around, the Bruins finally appeared down for the count. But as sophomore guard Bryce Alford tumbled to the floor, his teammates descending upon him in an a dogpile near midcourt, UCLA showed it could take a punch, and throw one too. A critical goaltending call with […]
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UCLA alumni climb to top of pole dancing competition
UCLA alumna Drusilla Ray grasps the pole and pulls herself upward with a fluid movement. Spinning to the beat of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep,” Ray inverts herself using only her arms and goes through a complicated series of motions that defy gravity. Ray said she was surprised when she heard the results of the […]
UCLA struggles on the glass, allows lead to slip away in 70-64 loss
LAS VEGAS — The Bruins didn’t go down without a fight. In a grind-it-out, do-or-die, physical matchup befitting the MGM Grand Garden Arena, UCLA didn’t back down against No. 5 Arizona. But at the end of 40 minutes of play, the Bruins finally yielded to what seemed like the inevitable – and to a top-10 […]
Gender studies assistant professor dedicates career to social justice
Michelle Erai was sick in bed, wearing her green flannel nightgown and sporting her “Polynesian ‘fro,” when her girlfriend asked her to marry her. Marriage had not been a part of the UCLA assistant gender studies professor’s plan. She said she didn’t believe in it. She had suffered abusive relationships and studied the history of […]
Archaeologist Hans Barnard excavates, educates using STEM background
Webs of wire line the walls of UCLA’s Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, a brightly lit room stuffed with chemical machines. An archaeologist in a pinstriped lab coat stands in the middle of the room, cradling his homemade Egyptian pot in one hand and test tubes of finely ground pottery in the other. Hans Barnard tilts […]
Students stop by the Hill to make sandwiches for the homeless
Tubs of peanut butter and jelly lay open across a sticky table in De Neve Plaza as students crowded around, chatting about classes and debating the advantages of crunchy and creamy. The student group Swipes for the Homeless held a quarterly event Thursday called Sandwiches for Smiles, letting students stop by to make sandwiches for […]
We Care collects feminine hygiene products for homeless women in need
Janelle Cohen sat on the floor of her apartment surrounded by scrapbook paper, index cards, old ribbon, markers and 14 boxes of feminine hygiene pads last week, making her first packages for We Care, a feminine care product drive for Los Angeles women in homeless shelters. The fourth-year theater student distributed her first batch of […]