Sonny Desai hurried through North Village late Monday night, trekking through the frigid wind. Instead of taking shelter indoors, Desai, a third-year economics student, delivered a printed PowerPoint document to a student on Kelton Avenue. Kotu Printing, a startup company Desai helped found, delivers printouts of emailed documents to professor’s mailboxes and students on campus […]
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prime: Fall 2015
The stories within prime reflect only a sliver of the ones that unfold on our campus every day. Within these pages, you will encounter people who have explored the streets of cities across the globe, experimented with fashion, spearheaded movements to study the vast potential of outer space and rekindled a spark for learning at […]
Men’s basketball recovers from season-opening loss to win against Cal Poly
Tony Parker sat at the podium, shaking his head and mumbling his words. One thing he said was completely clear: “Thirteen assists and 23 turnovers.” The senior forward kept repeating the stat line over and over. That was Friday. An overtime upset loss to Monmouth had stunned the Bruins and left them looking for answers. […]
Basketball Season Preview 2015-2016
Read the Daily Bruin’s season preview for both men’s and women’s basketball.
A Fighting Chance
In 1994, California was in the throes of an economic recession, its unemployment rate increasing rapidly as it continued to bleed jobs in once flourishing industries. At the same time, it had the largest population of undocumented residents of any state in the country, already up to 1.3 million and getting larger.
The Human Cost
Alma Alvarado was home alone when she found out she got into UCLA. She was living in a small apartment in Planada, California, just outside Merced. She was often there by herself, because her older brother, the only other member of her household, worked long hours. On this day, she sat alone at home again, and opened her laptop with her heart in her throat.
Who Gets to Dream?
When most people think of undocumented immigrants, chances are they think of Donald Trump. Which makes a twisted kind of sense. The man captured the attention of an entire country when he started off his presidential campaign railing against undocumented immigrants, and has made a name for himself as a presidential candidate spouting off hateful […]