I covered football for six months at the beginning of last school year. Before that, I worked the men’s volleyball beat for two years, with some men’s water polo and soccer in the mix. If I had to take all the experiences I had and boil them down to one lesson it would be this: […]
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Marvel’s black, female Iron Man should only be first step to greater diversity
Marvel Comics has created thousands of leotard-clad heroes, but most fans probably can’t name five superheroes of color in Marvel’s vast cast of characters. On Wednesday, Marvel announced that the Iron Man characterwill be taken over by a new character, Riri Williams. Although the Iron Man suit will remain in action, Williams differs from Tony […]
Editorial: Westwood Village crown jewel building not meeting full potential
The oldest building in Westwood Village is showing its age. When the Janss Investment Company Building on the corner of Westwood Boulevard and Kinross Avenue was completed in 1929, it was the first building in Westwood Village. Westwood founders Edward and Harold Janss originally used it as their headquarters, but over the years it has […]
Editorial: Incentivized state funding fails to address dependence on nonresidents
State legislators passed a budget Wednesday incentivizing the University of California to stall the trend of increasing nonresident enrollment. The state will allocate an additional $18.5 million to the University if it enrolls an additional 2,500 California residents for the 2017-2018 academic year and institutes a formal enrollment cap on nonresident students. It should be […]
Five Bruins selected in 2016 MLB draft
Five current UCLA baseball players were selected in the 2016 MLB Draft from June 9-11, with just one taken in the draft’s opening 11 rounds. The total was three fewer than 2015. Rising seniors Grant Dyer, Luke Persico and Kort Peterson and redshirt seniors Eric Filia and Christoph Bono heard their names called on the […]
Jasmine Aquino: Perpetrators of sexual assault require more than suspension
Consequences for sexual assault incidents within the University of California have been as silent as my attacker was when I said “Never mind, I don’t want to do this. Stop.” If I have learned anything in this last year at UCLA, it is that sexual assault is still prevalent within the UCLA community. The University’s […]
Editorial: Campus murder-suicide reveals gaps in emergency preparedness
This post was updated June 2 at 12:50 a.m. A murder-suicide in the Engineering IV building put UCLA in the national spotlight Wednesday. What followed was a score of hot takes about campus shootings and gun regulations from media outlets worldwide. Despite the frenzy of rumors and misinformation spreading through social media and across the […]