Men’s water polo alumni face off in National League championship game

For the second year in a row, UCLA men’s water polo alumni dominated the stat lines in the USA Water Polo National League championship game. 2016 scoring leader Patrick Fellner and Paul Reynolds, the fourth-most scoring Bruin in program history, suited up for the Olympic Club against the reigning champion, the New York Athletic Club. […]

Editorial: Mandatory faculty emergency training critical to campus safety

Safety should be an uncompromisable priority for any organization. UCLA, however, has made it an optional one. Last year, UCLA created a campus safety task force after an on-campus murder-suicide in June exposed a lack of preparedness in both safety procedures and building security. The task force produced a list of recommendations for the university, […]

Student dies after falling from cliff near Santa Cruz

A UCLA student died Tuesday after falling from a cliff at Panther State Beach near Santa Cruz. Neel Foon, 18, was a first-year undeclared student, a UCLA spokesperson said. Foon was with a small group of people when he walked too close to the edge of the cliff and fell at about 5:14 p.m., a […]

Softball triumphs over BYU, Dartmouth in break from conference play

After a rough beginning to Pac-12 play last weekend, No. 13 UCLA (24-8, 0-3 Pac-12) softball took a weekend off from playing conference teams and put together three victories against BYU (21-9) and Dartmouth (1-18-1). Game one of Saturday’s doubleheader featured the Bruins’ and Cougars’ aces. Redshirt freshman Rachel Garcia leads UCLA with 88 strikeouts […]

New dining hall locks could be key to fixing locker repair woes

UCLA Dining Services is testing a new type of lock that may replace the keypads on dining hall lockers, which were prone to malfunctioning. Charles Wilcots, associate director of UCLA Dining Services, said the frequency of technical failures in dining hall locker keypad systems increased repair costs and made the lockers unusable for students. The […]

Q&A: Alumna discusses her experience as original Broadway’s Belle

Susan Egan arrived at the final callback for the character Belle in Disney’s first Broadway musical “Beauty and the Beast” in 1994. The 23-year-old sat in the corner of the room and read “The Mists of Avalon,” a King Arthur story, to keep herself centered and calm among the other young actresses vying for the […]