A 5-year-old boy ran, laughing, across the room toward his friends, causing portraits of his classmates’ faces to flash up on the wall. The excited voices of kindergartners quickly filled the room. Amid cries of “I see me,” Noel Enyedy quieted a class of 22 kindergartners at the UCLA Lab School, a school for children […]
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Andrew Erickson appointed as 2014-2015 editor in chief
Andrew Erickson, the Daily Bruin’s current football and men’s basketball reporter, was appointed as the paper’s next editor in chief Tuesday night. The UCLA Communications Board appointed the third-year business economics student at its Tuesday meeting after Erickson received The Bruin’s staff endorsement Friday night.The Communications Board oversees all student media publications, including the Daily […]
UCLA on track to introduce new Iranian studies minor
BY JOSEPH VESCERA Bruin contributor jvescera@media.ucla.edu Students interested in the history and culture of Iran will soon be able to declare a minor in Iranian studies. The minor is expected to officially open to undergraduate students later this quarter, after faculty in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures unanimously voted in November to […]
UCLA patient celebrates 80th thanks to unlikely procedure
James Manzi was supposed to have an evening of celebration. He was out to dinner with family and friends for their daughter’s birthday, when his wife turned around and saw him slumped over and unconscious in his chair. It would take fast thinking and an unusual procedure to save his life. After an ambulance brought […]
Iranian Student Group at UCLA holds annual culture show
The second time his family traveled to the United States from Iran, they never went home. Growing up in the United States, Hirbod Rahimi, a fourth-year neuroscience and biology student, often felt left out living in a neighborhood where he thought his culture was never acknowledged. Adapting to a new culture was easy, but forgetting […]
Affiliations of USAC officials called into question
The original version of this article contained information that was unclear and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. The allegiances of multiple undergraduate student government officials have come into question several times this school year, prompting some students to consider proposing a bylaw amendment to clarify what constitutes a […]
Volunteers experience alternative lifestyles over break in South LA
Inside the cozy, beige-colored walls of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in downtown Los Angeles, UCLA students and families from different countries shared their own upbringings and experiences immigrating to the United States. With plates full of fish, sweet potatoes and fruit salad covering the tables, one man described his time fighting during the Guatemalan Civil […]