The Quad: Community cap-and-frowns upon graduation traditions, explores sustainable alternatives

Graduating seniors, what legacy are you leaving behind this year? Many will say good memories and lifelong friendships. But as graduation season kicks off, confetti begins to line Janss Steps and orders of one-use caps, gowns and sashes begin to fly in, and it becomes clearer that the legacy left behind might not be so […]

The Quad: Personalized laptop art invites UCLA community to stick together

Human beings, unlike laptops, are not neutrally monochrome. Tech companies devised the laptop on the premise of efficiency and mobility and as a result, its appearance is sleek and simple. Since then, the computer has become a more personal item. We went from being disconnected to our devices to keeping them – as the name […]

The Quad: Students reflect on 2016 active shooter situation in wake of broader school shootings

Fourth-year theater student Vivi Le still remembers waking up in her Dykstra dorm room to the loud whir of helicopters and to a phone blown up with missed calls and messages. Le was not alone in her atypical start to the morning June 1, 2016. Thousands of UCLA students woke up to the alarming news […]

Throwback Thursday: Non-UCLA students have had a place in campus summer sessions for decades

Summer sessions are coming up soon. On top of the sweatier commute to the classroom, summer session presents a number of differences from the regular school year. One particularly distinct aspect of summer sessions, as opposed to the regular school year, is the increased integration of students from outside UCLA into the classroom. In fact, […]

Inner Peas: Ditch to-do lists and academic peer pressure to achieve goals, self-fulfillment

Late-night coffee sessions and a constantly looming sense of stress may seem synonymous with the college lifestyle – but it doesn’t have to be that way. In her series Inner Peas, Daily Bruin contributor Kayleigh Ruller will explore different ways students can easily practice various wellness tactics in their busy day-to-day lives. Study for Psych […]

Box Office: The history behind how studios choose when in the year to release movies

Hollywood’s a company town. It might be a cliche, but in this age of record-breaking box office hauls, it couldn’t ring truer. With every film around the corner a potential franchise, the box office has become a high-stakes chess game for studios; who gets a sequel, and who gets left in the dust? In his […]

Week nine: Former football players sue UCLA, softball enters college world series

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. UCPD search for missing student last spotted 2 weeks ago Marc Kalis, a fourth-year statistics student, has […]