Editor’s note: The USAC Election Board at UCLA wants us to #USACMakeItCount. Students can vote in the undergraduate student government election on MyUCLA until 3 p.m. Friday. The election board will announce results at 9 p.m. Friday in Meyerhoff Park. I hate asking for help. Most people do – it’s uncomfortable, vulnerable and a little […]
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Throwback Thursday, Week 5: Admissions backdoor
What sets UCLA apart from USC, we tell ourselves, is that this campus provides education for all, while that other school does so for the privileged. Indeed, there is perhaps no greater insult to a public university’s stakeholders than it adopting the most-maligned practices of private institutions – namely, compromising the admissions of deserving students […]
Lost in Boelter: Does it compute?
When I was in elementary school, one of the weekly vocabulary exercises I had to complete was in the topic of “fields of study.” This basically meant that our class had to learn the etymology of many of those terms ending in the root “-ology,” or “field of study” – a task I’m sure we […]
Minding the media: Journalism, a changed game
If I had a nickel from everyone who’s ever told me not to be a student journalist, I could actually afford to be one. The Chicago Sun-Times laid off its entire photo staff during my last semester in high school, when I worked as my school newspaper’s photo editor. At the time, its staff included […]
Throwback Thursday, Week 4 – The story behind the Bruin mascot
If the year were 1925, this past weekend incoming freshmen would have gone to Grizzly Day instead of Bruin Day. Although UCLA started in 1919, the Bruin hasn’t always been the school’s mascot. For nearly seven years, UCLA’s athletic teams and even this newspaper were marked with the name “Grizzly.” Then in 1926, UCLA got […]
Lost in Boelter: Abstract simplicity
Bits of change Computer science is a changing landscape. The truths and limitations of today may not necessarily hold for the next. The rate at which new innovations in computer science are developed is dizzying, and this is an exciting yet somewhat humbling fact. The rapid advancements within computer science allow not only for computers […]
The Quad: ‘Lactose intolerance’ is scamming us all
If you regularly pay 50 cents for soy or almond milk at Kerckhoff Coffee House to avoid the discomfort of consuming dairy products, you are not alone. In fact, compared to most of the world’s population, you’re in the majority. Contrary to popular belief, and the particular naming of the term itself as a “disease,” […]