Men’s tennis player Karue Sell best epitomized his laid-back nature during an exchange with a USC opponent at last month’s Pac-12 championship. When Sell was down in his match, a Trojan bench player tried to rub it in, telling him it felt good to be up a set and a break. Sell didn’t miss a […]
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Three UCLA football players selected in 2015 NFL draft
Three UCLA football players found homes in the National Football League this weekend during the 2015 NFL draft, which lasted seven rounds from Thursday to Saturday. Eric Kendricks was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the second round with the 45th overall pick, after the Bruins were shut out of the first round for the […]
UCLA baseball to face standout hitter, unfamiliar opponent in Gonzaga
It’s that time of year again for UCLA baseball: the bye week in the Pac-12 conference schedule. It’s a time of year when coach John Savage has to mix and match to find a nonconference team to fill the void. “Each team gets a bye in our conference, and we have to try to fill […]
Q&A: UCLA band Apollo Soul talks music, upcoming Ecochella performance
From the JazzReggae Festival to the upcoming Ecochella, Apollo Soul has worked its way around the UCLA musical circuit. Yet with ethnomusicology students Ellington Peet on drums, Jack Bastian on keyboard and Cole Brossus on bass, and undeclared student Matt Saunders on guitar, all four Apollo Soul members are first-year students. After six months together, […]
Tennis grounds Ryoto Tachi as he moves across oceans, away from family
Because of how often he moved around as a child, people frequently ask UCLA men’s tennis player Ryoto Tachi where he considers his home to be. Tachi says that the technical answer is Japan. However, because of the mobile nature of his father’s work, he had to learn to feel at home in a number […]
Bruins for Recovery seeks to support recovering drug addicts
Adam Smith wants to challenge negative stereotypes of drug addicts. “It’s not the guy in the alley drinking out of a brown paper bag, but the college student taking Adderall every day or drinking too much,” Smith said. “It’s a student getting a 4.0 but dying inside.” The fourth-year sociology student started Bruins for Recovery, […]
Alumni reflect on Martin Luther King’s 1965 speech at UCLA
Neil Reichline, a first-year student in 1965 and Daily Bruin staffer, sat at the top of the Janss Steps, overlooking the crowd in Wilson Plaza. He said he remembers how unique Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at UCLA was compared to his other addresses. “It was not the rabble-rousing, church-sermon, ‘Amen, brother!’ sort of speech […]