Andy Wong sat across from his business fraternity mentor in the bustling Westwood ShopHouse last week, asking for career guidance over a steaming bowl of rice. His mentor’s advice was simple: Do something you’re passionate about. Second-year political science student Wong listened to this advice and decided to use his love of photography to help […]
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Men’s basketball slowed by big-big front court in Washington loss
After UCLA’s 86-84 loss to Washington Thursday, coach Steve Alford said something that he refrained from saying before the season started. The UCLA coach called his starting lineup “slow.” Alford was specifically referring to the “big-big” starting lineup that the Bruins have featured all year – the one that features a 7-foot, 245-pound center and […]
Student musician captures momentary emotions with R&B, verse
An unfamiliar and haunting melody snuck up on Chris Pree the same way it always did. He would be walking to class, talking to friends or trying to do his homework when a tune would tangle itself around his thoughts. His instincts told him to get the melody down from the nebulous space of his […]
Behind the Counter: Employees of Ralphs produce department discuss their busy schedules
Jake Warden hustled fresh bunches of ripened bananas onto empty shelves, pausing to wipe sweat from his brow. He tossed the empty cardboard box onto a stack near his cart, which was piled high with boxes. Customers chatted with each other and questioned clerks about produce while mingling with ambient music playing over the store’s […]
UCLA to host athletes village in LA’s 2024 Olympic bid
UCLA will host the Olympic Village in Los Angeles’ bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, city and university officials announced at a press conference Monday. Los Angeles is one of four cities in the running for the games, up against Rome, Paris and Budapest, Hungary. The International Olympic Committee will select the host city […]
Professor studies impact of Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia
Patrick Heuveline sat among villagers in Cambodia, showing them photos of his daughter to establish common ground with a group of people whose culture he had yet to fully understand. Heuveline, a UCLA sociology professor since 2007, has now spent about 15 years studying the effects of the Khmer Rouge regime’s mass murder during the […]
‘He’s the Boss’
Billy Martin never would have brought up the fact that he reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon in 1977. But when his son suggested that the two of them go to Wimbledon, Martin explained that, as a former quarterfinalist, he’d received – and turned down – many invitations to sit in the tournament’s prestigious Royal Box.