John Savage believes in second chances, but this decision wasn’t easy. “I went back and forth,” the UCLA baseball coach said. “I didn’t really ask other people’s opinion. I didn’t go that direction, I basically used my experience.” Night after night, Savage slept on it – running through the conversations he’d had with Eric Filia, […]
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UCLA construction projects for 2016-2017
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Brazilian restaurant owner pours passion for cuisine into Westwood
Nine-year-old Do Hun Kim walked into Paraná, Brazil, excited to begin what he thought was a vacation. At the time, he was unaware Brazil would be his home for the next 34 years. Kim’s knowledge of Brazilian cuisine and culture later helped him make a living for his family in Westwood Village. Kim, now the […]
Valentine’s Day 2016
Valentine’s Day weekend is here! Read submissions, listen to a Valetnine’s Day podcast and watch DIY videos.
Six friends create Landing 8 Records to revive hip-hop, R&B on campus
A heavy bass beat emanating from pieces of recording equipment strewn across the floor vibrated the Sproul Landing dorm room walls Second-year mechanical engineering student Miles Gibson stepped up to the sole microphone stand, inhaling and exhaling loudly to still his nerves, and began to rap to a beat engineered by his friend, second-year ethnomusicology […]
UCLA’s Maria Polyakova leads Bruins to new diving records
Maria Polyakova constantly checked her email waiting for a response from the diving coaches at Stanford, Texas, USC and UCLA. She waited weeks for responses from the first three schools, but it only took three days for UCLA diving coach Tom Stebbins to reply. “I was very lucky,” Stebbins said. “(Stanford and Texas) essentially said […]
Students aspire to level up in game design despite limited resources
Students substitute video game controllers and joysticks with food and live cacti at the UCLA Game Lab in Broad Art Center, while students across campus in the classrooms of Boelter Hall strap on virtual reality headsets to program imaginary environments for new video games. UCLA’s Design | Media Arts and computer science departments, as well […]