Q&A: UCLA staff member explains importance of sun in light of the eclipse

A total solar eclipse will pass through the United States on Monday. Although Los Angeles is not under its path of totality, or the area where the moon will completely block the sun, the UCLA community will be able to view a partial solar eclipse on campus. Emmanuel Masongsong, the earth, planetary and space sciences […]

Rosen maintains strong fall camp performance at Fan Appreciation Day

The final play of Fan Appreciation Day was perhaps the one the fans appreciated the most. Junior quarterback Josh Rosen stepped up in the pocket and flung a bomb downfield to redshirt junior receiver Jordan Lasley, streaking behind the secondary for a touchdown of over 50 yards. That capped off a day in which Rosen […]

Abhishek Shetty: Newsom’s support of start-ups contradicts his campaign stance

If your spokesperson says that Davos, the annual World Economic Forum gathering of wealthy elites in Switzerland, is where you get many of your ideas from, you need to be as far away from politics as possible. Instead, Gavin Newsom, California’s lieutenant governor, is running in the 2018 California gubernatorial race. The former two-term San Francisco […]

UCPD searching for July 14 car burglary suspects

University police are searching for a man and a woman who allegedly burglarized a UCLA student’s vehicle on July 14. Video surveillance footage taken from a 11140 Rose Ave. parking garage showed the man and woman breaking the vehicle’s rear passenger window and taking items from inside, according to a UCPD alert. The two then […]

UCPD searching for two armed men allegedly involved in multiple robberies

University police are searching for two men who allegedly robbed multiple people with a knife and a handgun. The two armed men approached a group of people who were affiliated and unaffiliated with UCLA at about 1 a.m. Saturday morning and demanded their property by threatening them with a pocket knife and a handgun, according […]

Former track and field coach Jim Bush remembered for great successes

UCLA lost one of its most influential and successful coaches last week. Jim Bush was UCLA’s head track and field coach for nearly two decades, from 1965 to 1984. On Monday, he passed away at the age of 90. According to the New York Times, his death was caused by metastatic cancer. When Bush took […]

Bruins play for US in World Cup of Softball, team finishes second

The 12th installment of the World Cup of Softball just wrapped up and the No. 2-ranked United States took three Bruins to Oklahoma City. 2015 alumnus Ally Carda, rising junior Paige Halstead and 2017 alumnus Delaney Spaulding represented both UCLA and their country against the likes of No. 1-ranked Japan and No. 3 Canada. Like […]