Coach Steve Alford talked Tuesday about the need for his team to not force things so much from deep. He saw his team at its best when patient, when making the extra pass for higher-percentage shots. The Bruins took 25 mostly forced attempts from three-point range against Colorado last Thursday. They took 21 in a Saturday loss to Utah. But […]
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UCLA Blood and Platelet Center hopes to draw more donations
Officials at the UCLA Blood and Platelet Center have seen fewer donations than usual this quarter. There were 24 fewer donors at the center’s Ackerman location in the first week of winter quarter compared to this time last year, said Faye Cortez, community liaison for the center. “While it might not seem like much, when […]
Earning her shot: UCLA walk-on Madeline Brooks works way toward scholarship
A year ago, Madeline Brooks would have been in warmups on the bench cheering on her teammates. But this season against then-No. 10 Oklahoma, the junior guard found herself walking the almost 80 feet from the defensive baseline to the free throw line with UCLA up two points and 15 seconds left on the game […]
Vietnamese Culture Night explores mental health, domestic abuse
Teri Nguyen’s family did not know much about autism when her brother started acting aloof. They did not even know the word for autism in Vietnamese, their first language. “We never asked further – ‘why?’”said Nguyen, the director for this year’s 34th annual Vietnamese Culture Night and a third-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student. […]
Group talks prevention 20 years after Northridge quake
It was 4:30 in the morning and Joanna Cooper and her fellow UCLA students were fast asleep on the fifth floor of Rieber Hall. The weather was windy. A mild earthquake had actually occurred a week before. Suddenly, the buildings started shaking violently. There were loud noises, people were screaming and it was pitch black […]
UCLA defeats Colorado 69-56
BOULDER, Colo. — UCLA knew the obstacles it faced Thursday night in the Coors Events Center. A fan’s sign listed them clearly. The “effects of altitude” didn’t cost the Bruins the game in their first Pac-12 road contest at Colorado. But, in a 69-56 victory, it made things a little less certain. It turned what […]
A country in healing: UCLA nurse serves patients recovering from Typhoon Haiyan
At UCLA, 25-year-old nurse Paolo Montenegro often works 12-hour night shifts three days a week on the neurotrauma floor of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He takes care of people who have been shot, stabbed, fallen off their motorcycles, weakened from strokes and brain bleeds. Like all doctors and nurses, he was trained to […]