A rowdy crowd alternated chants of “U-C-L-A Fight Fight Fight” and “U-S-C.” UCLA’s Yell Crew led several eight-claps. Cheerleaders did backflips. Many fans in the crowd were dressed in tuxedos for the black-tie optional event, This was not any UCLA-USC rivalry match. It was the last of twelve bouts at the annual Rivals in the […]
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Down to the wire: UCLA, ASU to square off in battle for Pac-12 South
Ka’imi Fairbairn doesn’t remember much about his greatest kick in a UCLA uniform. With UCLA trailing Arizona State 43-42 in Tempe, Ariz., last year and the clock winding down in the fourth quarter, coach Jim Mora called a timeout with just two seconds left to play, enough time for a make-or-break 33-yard field goal from […]
Cultural Affairs Commission hosts panel examining Miley Cyrus’ motives
Expectant faces pointed toward two tables paired haphazardly together, where a row of austere-looking professors and doctoral students sit with prepared speeches to discuss one topic: Miley Cyrus. On Tuesday, the Cultural Affairs Commission’s DiverseCity Tours and Hip Hop Congress hosted a seven-person panel of professors and graduate students who analyzed Cyrus’ seemingly abrupt transformation […]
Recently formed club golf team goes to national championships
Just a year and half after fourth-year chemical engineering student Victoria Leon and third-year chemical engineering student Matthew Yoshino founded the UCLA club golf team, they found themselves at Barefoot Resort in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, playing in the National Collegiate Club Golf Association National Championship. According to NCCGA public relations director Tim Beck, the […]
Arts ReSTORE LA: Pop-up stores add variety to Westwood
A&E contributors pyang@media.ucla.edu About 25 years ago, Father Gregory Boyle had an idea that led to a simple program that would help former gang members. Homeboy Industries is one of the pop-up shops occupying an empty Westwood space this month. A Los Angeles-based organization founded by Father Gregory Boyle, Homeboy Industries specializes in providing ex-gang […]
UCLA football’s Brett Hundley joins in Walk to End Epilepsy
PASADENA—On Friday, UCLA defeated purple-clad Washington at the Rose Bowl. Two days later, there was not a Huskies fan to be found on site, but a violet hue remained. Throughout the Rose Bowl concourse, purple tablecloths, shirts and bandanas replaced traditional powder-blue garb as the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Los Angeles hosted the Walk to […]
Black Friday: UCLA to face off against Washington, Mora’s alma mater
One of the biggest compliments Jim Mora could pay to his alma mater Washington wound up as one of the coach’s biggest regrets. Mora expressed in a 2006 interview with a Seattle radio station that he would drop any post, including his then-head coaching gig with the Atlanta Falcons, for a chance at coaching the […]