This post was updated Nov. 10 at 1:15 p.m. It is time to pick ourselves up, dry off our tears and start tweeting again, even as thousands of UCLA students rose up in angry protest last night as Donald J. Trump was declared the next president of the United States. For many millennial-age college students […]
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College etiquette to know
College is the period in life when most students are on their own for the first time. For many, it’s a step outside their comfort zones, both in terms of sheer scale and the diversity of the UCLA student population and Los Angeles. With that can come the challenges of living on your own, studying […]
Asian American activism on campus
There’s been no shortage of Asian-American news as of late.
One feminist’s thoughts on Milo Yiannopoulos and ‘Feminism is Cancer’
The event “Feminism is Cancer” may be misguided, but Yiannopoulos’ argument is worth a second glance.
The Quad: Dieting can be dangerous when based on gender stereotypes
From the expectation that all women love chocolate and all men love meat to the notion that women jump from diet to diet, there are a lot of gender stereotypes that focus on food. But how much of this is actually true? And, in particular, how does this affect adolescents and college students? It is […]
Lost in Boelter: Threat modeling
Have you ever wondered about those people who use cable locks for their laptops? Well, I’m one of them. Contrary to conventional wisdom, that doesn’t mean that I’m overly protective of my laptop or that I have something to hide. I’m just taking precautions that, arguably, few do. Now, you might say to yourself that […]
The Quad: Low attendance at Pauley Pavilion has to change
The post was updated on May 9 at 5:40 p.m. The night was Feb. 11, 2015. Like the rest of the fans in Pauley Pavilion’s student section, I too was cheering as loudly as ever when Oregon State’s junior point guard Gary Payton II approached the free throw line after missing his first attempt. To the […]