Student-produced play uses gods to mirror themes reflected in actors’ own lives

Gods and goddesses will rule over destruction and chaos from campus this week. An event titled “An Evening of Devised Works,” running Thursday through Saturday in Melnitz Hall, will catalogue their actions. The event’s single play, titled “A Creation Myth,” is the result of Cohort 6 – a group of graduate acting students – partnering […]

A cappella group Bruin Harmony takes top prize at Spring Sing 2019

This post was updated on May 21 at 8:53 a.m. Bruin Harmony won best a cappella group at last year’s Spring Sing and returned victorious, taking the top prize of the night. Bruin Harmony’s soft pop cover of John Mayer’s “Gravity” won both the UCLA Prytanean Alumnae Award for best a cappella and the Northern […]

Nursing lecturer delivers last lecture on death, terminal illnesses of loved ones

Barbara Demman said she and her husband created a catchphrase while working with dying patients. As her class gathered for a group photo after her last lecture of the year, she said one of her students shouted it before the flash. “Somebody said, ‘Yay, we’re alive, on the count of three! One, two three,’ and […]

How Katelyn Ohashi became the star of a sport she nearly despised

Joy. That is on senior Katelyn Ohashi’s face as she grins and dances throughout her floor routine. Her teammates beam as she tumbles through the air and the crowd cheers with every completed skill. Ohashi’s smile only widens once she finishes. “(Ohashi) just has so much joy and love when she competes,” said junior Felicia […]

Reading of Whitman poem to honor his bicentennial before UCLA centennial kickoff

On a small stage near the top of Janss Steps, a group of students, professors and alumni will recite all 54 pages of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” Participants will celebrate the poet’s 200th birthday alongside UCLA’s centennial anniversary Saturday. Event organizer Amber West, a lecturer for UCLA Writing Programs, said she hopes bystanders on […]