This Week in the News serves as The Quad’s space for reflection on current events at and around UCLA. Every week, Daily Bruin staffers will analyze some of the most significant stories to keep readers up to speed. As we approach the end of the quarter, students are scrambling to finish up final papers and […]
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The Quad: Students cultivate re-commerce industry to counter fast fashion’s ecological harm
The word “pollution” tends to evoke images of devastating oil spills in vast oceans or black fumes spilling from big, industrial factories. Interestingly, the tremendous environmental implications behind the trendy clothes that hang in our own closets seem to constantly slip our minds. With the recent completion of discount shopping blowouts like Black Friday and […]
Throwback Thursday: Recent ban on hard alcohol attempts to combat same pattern of problems from 1986
Throwback Thursdays are our chance to reflect on past events on or near campus and relate them to the present day. Each week, we showcase and analyze an old article from the Daily Bruin archives in an effort to chronicle the campus’ history. The consequences of alcohol misuse have long loomed over UCLA fraternities – […]
The Quad: Busy culture can cause stress as students compare themselves to others
There are many days where I leave my dorm at 8 a.m. to return 12 hours later. Though I spent those hours focusing on class and studying, with little breaks to eat, I almost always return feeling unproductive. Oftentimes, I look in my floor’s lounge and notice a flood of people deep in their studies, […]
The Quad: An international conference just redefined the kilogram. What does that mean?
The kilogram finally has a precise meaning despite defying a rigorous definition for over a century. Delegates of the General Conference on Weights and Measures unanimously voted Nov. 16 in favor of a fundamental change in the way we define our basic units of measurement, relying on universal constants of nature rather than previously imprecise […]
The Quad: Bruin Bike Share sees competition with e-scooters in year of its release
Accidentally snoozing your alarm too many times is no longer an issue thanks to the wide selection of transportation options around campus. There are Bird, Lime and now Jump e-scooters all throughout Westwood, but before those came, there was Bruin Bike Share. Bruin Bike Share was launched in October 2017 and has since expanded its […]
The Quad: What it’s like adapting to UCLA’s culture as an international student
Faces can quickly become blurs in the midst of UCLA’s hustle and bustle. For the first-year international Bruin, this large setting can be especially daunting. First-year international students, who made up approximately 10 percent of the students that enrolled as freshmen in the fall of 2017, begin a monumental social and cultural transition as soon […]