Love Apptually: Leaving with a crop of dissatisfaction … and beans

Each week in “Love Apptually,” Daily Bruin staffers Nico Correia and Natalie Green will take turns attempting to find love in all of the wrong places: dating applications. To help thousands of loveless students, but mostly themselves, Correia and Green will test run and rate five dating apps over the course of one quarter. Like […]

Submission: EVP candidate Ria Jain has skill to refocus office’s advocacy

The Undergraduate Students Association Council External Vice President’s office has played a pivotal role in student advocacy and activism on this campus for decades. UCLA has been at the forefront of fighting for affordable education, advocating to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline and providing students with a space to lobby for issues they are passionate about. […]

Around the League: Tennis, volleyball, baseball and softball primed for season’s end

Men’s volleyball The No. 2 seed UCLA men’s volleyball team has the first round of the NCAA Tournament off. UCLA will play Thursday at Penn State, against No. 3 seed Ohio State. The Bruins soundly defeated both of these teams early on in the season. Since then, however, the Buckeyes have only lost one more […]

Sounds of Schoenberg: Atumpan

Two large barrel drums sat side by side in the ethnomusicology department, representing the musical culture of African villages from which they originated. The drums are called Atumpan, considered a Ghanaian talking drum due to its ability to imitate language. In 1965, they journeyed to UCLA from Ghana through a musical collaboration between Mantle Hood, […]

Love Apptually: When Coffee Meets Bagel becomes part of the daily grind

Each week in “Love Apptually,” Daily Bruin staffers Nico Correia and Natalie Green will take turns attempting to find love in all of the wrong places: dating applications. To help thousands of loveless students, but mostly themselves, Correia and Green will test run and rate five dating apps over the course of one quarter. I […]

Love | Hate: Can ‘The Powerpuff Girls’ still pack a punch?

The unmistakable theme song to “The Powerpuff Girls” filled many homes from 1998 to 2005 as fans around the world tuned in to watch Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup fight crime and the forces of evil. A decade later, Cartoon Network has announced “The Powerpuff Girls” series reboot for 2016. Though some original voice actors have […]