Bruins remember day of loss on 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination

There was a shout. “The president has been shot,” a Daily Bruin staffer announced to the newsroom. Don Harrison remembers dozens of students gathering to watch a machine print out the breaking headlines line by line. President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Harrison was working as an editorial editor for the Bruin when the […]

Bruin Origami Society co-founders teach UCLA students art

The slow, stretched jazz notes of Miles Davis’ “Blue in Green” harmonized with the rhythm of focused fingers smoothing little, bright blue squares of paper. The last of the students settled into their desks, ready to get to work on their origami – the chalkboard was already covered in a disarray of diagrams. In a […]

Professor teaches about the Baha’i Faith

As a young atheist, Nader Saiedi felt that his family’s religion contradicted his trust in reason. The current UCLA professor could not reconcile what he believed were inconsistencies between faith and reason until he began researching the Baha’i Faith – a religion the Iranian government considers heretical, Saiedi said. The Baha’i Faith is a minority […]

Student of Color Conference discusses racial diversity in UC

Three protesters stood on the roof of a white Chevy in the intersection of Wilshire and Westwood boulevards, one wielding a megaphone, to voice their discontent with what they think is a low level of diversity in higher education. “Don’t forget why you’re here. We’re here for change,” said University of California student regent Cinthia […]