Seventeen years ago, under the lights of his Christmas tree, six-year-old David Tracy unwrapped his present and began building his future, brick by brick.
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UCLA’s first-half offense, second-half defense beat Arizona
LAS VEGAS—Saturday’s Pac-12 tournament final pitted one of the conference’s top scoring teams against its most dominant defensive force, two teams playing with opposing styles and doing so at the highest level they have all season. UCLA came into the tournament second in the Pac-12 in scoring, its 82 points per game just 0.5 behind […]
UCLA defeats Stanford, heads to Pac-12 final against Arizona
LAS VEGAS—UCLA’s coaching staff broke down the X’s and O’s during a break in the action in the first half of the Pac-12 tournament’s second semifinal game. But there was little coach Steve Alford and his assistants could offer for improvement, as the Bruins were walloping the Stanford Cardinal on the court, never trailing by […]
Bruin twins wear out Ducks
LAS VEGAS — If the Oregon Ducks ever have nightmares about the UCLA men’s basketball team, they’ll have two Bruins haunting them. But they’ll only see one face. In their two most recent games against the Bruins, the Ducks fell victim to twins – UCLA’s redshirt senior forwards David and Travis Wear – who gave […]
Books Beyond Bars provides outlet for juveniles
A walk through quiet corridors and past a wide grass field takes two UCLA graduate students, with 57 hand-picked books in hand, to an empty room in the Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall.
Road to recovery for Westwood still rough despite measures undertaken
Businesses in Westwood don’t often stay for long. Since February 2010, at least 111 fast-food shops, restaurants, retail stores and service businesses in the Village have shut their doors, while 100 new ones opened. Fourteen business both opened and closed within that four-year period, according to data collected by the Westwood Community Council. There are […]
Mobile art gallery advocates “alcohol is not consent”
Janelle Cohen’s early sexual harassment education in grade school featured pictures of girls crying and big red letters sensationalizing the threat and effects of sexual assault. Cohen, who said she is a sexual assault ally, did not respond positively to these messages. To combat the stereotypical images of sexual assault, the third-year theater student decided […]