Rodrigo Aranda was cleaning out the trash in his car when he found the bag of marijuana. Aranda had always refrained from doing drugs, even though his friends did, because he had been too busy with schoolwork. However, he was going through a tough breakup the summer after his senior year of high school and […]
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Duet Eva B. Ross and David Miller wins top award at Spring Sing 2017
This post was updated May 21 at 1 p.m. Third time’s the charm for Eva B. Ross and David Miller. On Friday, the duet, comprised of Eva Barrosse and David Miller, won Spring Sing’s top prize – the Northern California Alumni Grand Sweepstakes Award – in addition to winning best duet. The Student Alumni Association’s […]
Los Robles Master Chorale to perform three UCLA student compositions
The Los Robles Master Chorale’s Saturday performance will feature the world premieres of three UCLA student compositions. The pieces “America,” “E Novem Punctis Unum” and “Loam” by students Nicholas Carlozzi, Vittorio Russo and William Cabison, respectively, were commissioned in fall 2016 by Lesley Leighton, the artistic director of the Los Robles Master Chorale and a […]
On-campus bake-off heats up as students compete, taste innovative treats
Zach Martinucci named each batch of his sourdough bread after the characters in the TV show “Westworld” – Abernathy, Bernard and Maeve. Maeve – a rosemary sourdough loaf with roasted pumpkin seeds, polenta and olive oil – was one of the two breads the fourth-year anthropology student featured at “Spoon UCLA: The Great College Bake […]
Beach volleyball’s Kamila Tan talks personal, program growth at UCLA
When Kamila Tan entered UCLA as its first beach volleyball-exclusive athlete in 2012, there was only one 2-inch deep court the team had to practice on. The players weren’t allowed to dive on it, and there wasn’t even an NCAA Tournament for beach volleyball. Fast forward to today, 11 out of 15 players on the […]
Women’s water polo drops NCAA championship to Stanford in final minute
This post was updated May 14 at 7:08 p.m. INDIANAPOLIS — Another NCAA women’s water polo final came down to the last minute between UCLA and Stanford, and for the third time in four years, the Cardinal came out on top – narrowly. No. 1 UCLA (24-2, 6-0 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) had completed a […]
Dream big: Olympian Maddie Musselman three games from UCLA water polo history
Adam Krikorian still remembers the day he met freshman attacker Maddie Musselman. The Women’s Senior National Team coach was at Boston Logan International Airport, on his way home from the 2013 NCAA Tournament at Harvard. The rising water polo star went there with her family to watch her sister, then a freshman on the UCLA […]