UCLA workers part of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, the University of California’s largest employee union, participated in a picket line Monday, demanding higher wages and increased benefits. AFSCME is holding a strike from Monday to Wednesday because it failed to reach a contract agreement with the University. Elizabeth […]
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Beach volleyball defeats Florida State, gains program’s first NCAA title
In 2007, Stein Metzger and his partner battled through eight-straight matches in the elimination bracket to win the Association of Volleyball Professionals beach volleyball title. Fast forward 11 years – Metzger has now done it as a coach. “In fact, (volunteer assistant) coach (Jeff) Alzina and I were talking about it, and I said that […]
Bruins United president leads majority independent council
This post was updated May 4 at 7:52 p.m. A Bruins United candidate secured the president position for the fourth year in a row. This year’s election featured 39 candidates running for nine contested positions, composed of 19 independents, nine Bruins United candidates and 11 candidates from three new slates. Three out of the nine […]
Bruins conquer Cougars to move on to NCAA championship game against LBSU
This post was updated May 4 at 12:27 a.m. Grant Maleski had only entered the game once before the final point. With the score at 24-19, the freshman outside hitter and opposite hammered a serve through the BYU back row to take the Bruins one game away from claiming their 20th national championship. “The young […]
Student play layers fantasy, reality to subvert racial stereotypes
Characters inspired by Yoruban gods will layer with the gritty realism of an impoverished Louisiana town to create the mythical world of the upcoming play, “In the Red and Brown Water.” Jayongela Wilder, graduate student in directing and the play’s director, said the duality of magic and realism was one of the many ways that […]
Bruins’ first costumed mascot finds success as UCLA professor
This post was updated on May 15 at 9:36 p.m. The Bruins had a problem. Josephine Bruin, a live Himalayan brown bear donated by alumni in 1961, was getting too big for her home in the Rally Committee chair’s backyard. So she was shipped off to the San Diego Zoo, and the Rally Committee began […]
Interactive show merges reading, theater experience using Virginia Woolf texts
The literary hub of Powell Library and performance space of Royce Hall will come together for an immersive, staged reading experience. The Saratoga International Theater Institute Company’s “the theater is a blank page,” which will run from April 29 to May 12, entwines literature and theater in three hours. The interactive project will feature art […]