Weaving was considered feminine when James Bassler first secretly worked with fiber in helping his father hook rugs in the 1930s. In the privacy of the family home, 6-year-old Bassler watched his father, a major league baseball player, trade his catcher’s mitt for strips of dyed silk. Bassler, a UCLA alumnus and previous faculty member, […]
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UCLA student groups host presidential debate viewing parties
This post was updated on Sept. 27 at 3:35 p.m. UCLA students watched as presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump exchanged verbal blows on national television. At viewing parties throughout campus and Westwood hosted by several campus organizations, students came together to see the next president lay out their future plans for the country. […]
Student nails it with affordable, on-campus manicure business
Courtney Scott hauled a black suitcase of nail polish into her dorm lounge. On the eighth floor of Hedrick Summit, the second-year mathematics for teaching student provides professional manicures to UCLA students under the company name Court’s Nail Army. After starting the business her freshman year just three floors below her current dorm room, Scott […]
TFT alum creates comedy web series based on time working as telemarketer
The scribbled notes in Adam Carr’s 6-by-4 inch blue moleskin journal read like a string of nonsense ramblings. His entries span from jokes about prank voicemails to memories of making calls while sipping wine from his coffee mug. Carr, a UCLA film, television and digital media alumnus, took time before bed a few times a […]
Biomedical library to reduce hours during seismic proofing process
The Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library at UCLA will reduce its hours until April due to construction. The Biomedical Library began construction Aug. 29 to make the building more resistant to earthquakes. The library will close at 9 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, and will not have extended hours through 10th week and finals. It was […]
Grad student embraces Venezuelan heritage in new acting roles
The moment Vivian Rubio arrived in the United States, she became an American – removed from her friends and family in Venezuela. But to Americans, especially those in the film and television casting industry, she will always be Venezuelan – or at least something other than the white American image she said the entertainment industry […]
LGBT Campus Resource Center now offers free pads and tampons
The LGBT Campus Resource Center added pads and tampons to its selection of free products for students, which includes condoms and dental dams. The center partnered with the Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center in early August to provide the pads and tampons, said Raja Bhattar, the center’s director, in an email statement. The products […]