This post was updated March 14 at 12:34 p.m. UCLA was involved in a bribery scheme helping admit students to universities as student-athletes who had not played the sport competitively, according to court records released Tuesday. UCLA men’s soccer coach Jorge Salcedo was one of the many allegedly involved in the scheme, which included facilitation […]
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PRIME: I Miss the Old Kanye
The lights are off, and outside our apartment there’s nothing to be heard but crickets chirping and the occasional car driving through our small town, New Salem, Massachusetts. Yet inside, in the pitch black, my mom and I jump up and down, blasting Kanye West. My mom points at me and at the top of […]
PRIME: Records of Reflection
Sitting around a small fire in a friend’s backyard during winter break, I spun a marshmallow in my hand, unsure of how to answer the question: “How would you say you’ve changed over your first quarter of college?” Old friends, people I haven’t seen in months but have known for years, watched me as I […]
PRIME: Apathy in the Stands
There are a lot of things that are quintessential to the UCLA experience: walking up the Hill after a long day of classes, eating ice cream at Diddy Riese and watching some of the best college sports teams in the country. It’s just that the last one may come with the chance to see scores […]
PRIME: Walking the Bruin Walk
An irritating vibration shot up my left arm. My eyes groggily opened and I glanced to the side of my bed. I saw my phone screen blinking and looked at the caller ID. It was Andre Oliver. And it was 6:16 a.m. on a Monday. So much for getting a full eight hours of sleep […]
Diversity Showcase serves as a show of solidarity for female STEM students
Attendees of the Diversity Showcase have the option to pull a light switch accompanying a wooden art piece depicting someone’s face. If attendees pull the switch and turn the lights off, they will be representing the power society has to dim and discredit people’s passions. The metaphor can translate to how women in STEM are […]
New ways of seeing the sea: Installations invoke emotions of environmental change
Erin Cooney recorded herself grieving over climate change. The video is paired with sounds of insects and other animal life in a Puerto Rican rainforest, which fade out over time to represent the fauna diminishing since the 1970s. The graduate student’s installation is part of UCLA’s department of design media arts exhibition, “I Need the […]