TFT undergrad students to present ‘The Laramie Project’

Standing on the wooden platforms in The Little Theater, Brette O’Brien, a third-year theater student, runs through the library of characters she has accumulated. She mentally flips between Catherine Connelly, Zackie Salmon, Alison Mears, Juror No. 1 and Judy Shepard. After weeks of rehearsals, O’Brien can finally speak as Connolly without accidentally talking like any […]

Hip-hop dance group Foundations Choreography teaches basics to beginners

Dancers Alexander Tang and Vincent Tang started out with virtually no dance experience. After much practice, they eventually joined ACA Hip Hop and VSU Traditional, respectively. Now, they teach aspiring dancers the same fundamentals that got them first moving, through a new organization in UCLA’s dance community: Foundations Choreography. Foundations Choreography is concluding its fall […]

UCLA men’s basketball defeats Cal State Fullerton 73-45

This post was updated at 11:59 p.m. On UCLA’s first possession Wednesday night, Bryce Alford found Tony Parker, who calmly spotted up and sank a quick jumper. Cal State Fullerton answered with a shot clock violation. Though the game didn’t end there, it might as well have. After dropping two of three games and allowing […]

Hox Zodiac dinner to discuss similarities between humans and animals

Twelve figures will sit around a dinner table and play a game of chance. As the cards are played, the genetic game proceeds to inform each player about his or her connection to each other and the animals around them. On Thursday, the Art | Sci Center’s gallery will host the very first Hox Zodiac […]

No. 1 UCLA men’s water polo improves from last season, proceeds to NCAAs

The 2014 UCLA men’s water polo team flawlessly followed in the footsteps of its 2013 counterpart for 78 days. The script from last season called for 18 straight wins to start the season, back-to-back losses to USC and Stanford and an undefeated record for the rest of regular season play before stumbling in the Mountain […]

‘Through Positive Eyes’ advocacy project to commemorate World AIDS Day

When Professor David Gere began showing students a book, “A Broken Landscape,” he was met with a visible reaction, seen in their tears and heard in their responses. Compiled by South African, London-based photographer Gideon Mendel, the book pairs together images of people living with HIV with their first-person narratives. Gere said his students couldn’t help […]