From now on, any center playing against UCLA will find herself looking up when she walks out to the jump ball. She’ll be lined up against Corinne Costa, all six feet and four inches of her. After sitting out the first nine games of the season with a knee injury and coming off the bench […]
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Academy Award nominations: Animated short films
Every year, the works chosen for the three Academy Award categories for short films are among the most overlooked of the year’s Oscar selections. Aside from those usually coupled with Pixar films and the rare popular YouTube short, the majorityof pieces go on unseen and unheard of by the general public. Yet, for each of […]
A Bruin blueprint: Versatile softball team equipped for 2014
The pieces that make up the UCLA softball roster may be different this year, but the team blueprint is exactly the same. UCLA softball coach Kelly Inouye-Perez conveniently makes an acronym for her team’s building schedule using the word “Bruins” throughout the season, which will begin on Feb. 6. “I spell out the season, ‘Bruins,’” […]
UCLA men’s golf posts top-20 finishes at Anteater Invitational
The Anteater Invitational was a tournament of beginnings for the UCLA men’s golf team after a long break from competition. The three Bruins in the tournament came out of the gate slow, showing a bit of rust during their two rounds on Monday. Junior Kyle Pollema was 7-over, junior Preston Valder was 4-over and senior […]
UCLA gallery exposes students to Plastic Jesus’ street art
A sign in Beverly Hills read“Stop making stupid people famous.” A makeshift grave marked victims of gun violence on Melrose Ave. A “Useless Plastic Box” was priced at $99.99 inside a Sherman Oaks Best Buy. These are just a few examples of the artist’s illegal street art that could be seen scattered throughout the Los […]
Hammer exhibition explores Parisian female archetypes
A woman furrows her eyebrows and grits her teeth, bracing herself as she pulls up the hem of her skirt. She injects a syringe into her thigh, and on the table beside her sits the source of her pain and detrimental pleasure: morphine. She is the subject of French artist Eugene Grasset’s print “La morphinomane […]
Women’s water polo braces itself for tough competition
Coming off a strong first tournament, the UCLA women’s water polo team will pack its bags and head north for the UC Santa Barbara Winter Invitational this weekend. For several players, the tournament will double as a trip home. Sophomore attacker Kodi Hill, her sister redshirt junior goalkeeper Sami Hill and freshman attacker Kelsey O’Brien […]