Two Daily Bruin reporters travelled to Indio, California to cover the UCLA stories behind the second weekend of Coachella. Enjoy a few short blurbs, full articles, and multiple photos from the popular event.
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Women’s water polo senior reflects on triumphs, memories as a Bruin
Intensely demanding and physically arduous, United States Navy SEALs training regimens are not for the faint of heart. Thankfully, senior defender Charlotte Pratt is anything but faint hearted. During Pratt’s sophomore year, the entire team spent three days going through Navy SEALs training in Coronado, California. Although it pushed them all to their limits, the […]
Boots on the Ground
A slide depicting a map of an arid desert region illuminates sleepy faces on a Thursday morning. At the front of the classroom, a lecturer gives a lesson about politics, history and geography while the students scribble notes with one hand and sip coffee with the other. Every weekday, morning warriors struggle to keep their […]
UCLA lab working to create machine that simulates touch
Veronica Santos has been working to improve medical mechanical devices since she injured her elbow during a high school basketball game. Santos said the accident helped her realize the importance of research in upper limb prosthetics. Santos and her team of student researchers at the UCLA Biomechatronics Lab designed the BairClaw in 2014 to help […]
UCLA gymnastics lands fifth-place finish at NCAA Team Finals
FORT WORTH, Texas — No. 8 UCLA gymnastics put together a weekend of solid, complete meets, hitting 48 of 48 events and improving their semifinal scores on three events. But UCLA’s consistency could not stand up to No. 1 Oklahoma’s near-perfect night as the Sooners ended No. 4 Florida’s bid for a fourth-straight crown and […]
Kara Chang, from silence to a fighter for LGBT acceptance
Kara Chang stepped out in front of 8,000 incoming UCLA freshmen during Welcome Week in the fall and told the story of how she had come out as transgender five months before. “When I look in the mirror now, I see a strong, independent, queer, transgender, non-binary Taiwanese-American human being,” Chang told the students. “Today […]
UCLA men’s tennis allows player to come home, be closer to father
Logan Staggs’ phone rang. It was his father, Michael. Staggs, a freshman on the Northwestern men’s tennis team, had just returned from Norman, Oklahoma, after getting trounced 4-1 by the No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners in the second round of the 2015 NCAA Tournament in May. Staggs described the initial feeling as shock. He was thousands […]