UCPD sergeant Miguel Bañuelos recalls 25 years of service

Miguel Bañuelos remembers flipping through rows of The Beach Boys records with his friends about 35 years ago when police officers walked in and pulled the group of teenagers out of the record shop. The manager of the store had called the police to say he was concerned the group had been inside for 20 […]

Activist, former UCLA professor Angela Davis to give lecture

Shortly after internationally renowned scholar and activist Angela Davis came to teach at UCLA in 1969, the University of California Board of Regents attempted to remove her as a professor because of her membership in the Communist Party. Then-Chancellor Charles Young defended her academic freedom alongside many UCLA students and faculty members. Amid this controversy, […]

Young coach pushes UCLA women’s club lacrosse to success

A group of about 40 members of the UCLA women’s club lacrosse team stood around the Intramural Field waiting to meet their new coach. Their former coach left the team just a month before the regular season began. The Bruins had to scramble, calling up Paige Lin to replace a coach who was too busy […]

Bruin’s journey unearths cultural roots

With only an old photograph and her grandfather’s birth certificate, Janine Berridge walked the dusty, unfamiliar streets of Gambia to find the family she had never met. She traveled to Gambia to find where her grandfather came from as a stowaway on a ship. Her grandfather, Ebrahim “Dodou” N’jie, was 20 or 21 years old […]

Alumnus aims to bring attention to architecture through film

The original version of this article contained multiple errors and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. The universal subject of Rick Meghiddo’s documentaries often goes overlooked. In fact, the subject commonly serves as a background for the real action of a story. However, Meghiddo, a UCLA alumnus, firmly believes in […]