After a guided tour of UCLA’s campus, a look inside the Bruins’ athletic locker room and a meal at the dining hall, Nathan Smith found himself in coach Jorge Salcedo’s office, face-to-face with Salcedo himself. It was then that the coach offered Smith, who was later ranked as the No. 5 high school recruit by College Soccer […]
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Editorial: Court of Appeal should allow UCLA’s sale of Hannah Carter Japanese Garden
Legacies can be tricky. The Hannah Carter Japanese Garden and residence stands as the legacy of Edward Carter, formerly a UC Board of Regents chairman and a UCLA alumnus. In 1965, he entrusted the property to UCLA in perpetuity. Amid murky fiscal waters, UCLA sought to sell the property, but was met by opposition from […]
Q&A: USAC president discusses summer actions, year ahead
John Joanino, president of the Undergraduate Students Association Council,recently talked with Daily Bruin campus editor Amanda Schallert about his upcoming year on the council and the work USAC has undertaken this summer. The fourth-year sociology student spoke about USAC’s finances, student group funding and council initiatives this year. Daily Bruin: Next year, you will lead […]
Maia Ferdman: Israeli-Palestinian conflict needs respect on both sides
Ron Kehrmann’s 17-year-old daughter Tal loved camels.
For almost a decade Ron has worn a camel-shaped pin as an excuse to talk about Tal, who was killed in a suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel in 2003.
UCLA engineering club moves beyond theory with projects
It started with a marble setting off a mouse trap. Step by step, the contraption made out of a chair, cardboard, and a number of household objects unwound until it reached its goal – a paper cutout of a hand high-fiving one of the team members. Merrick Campbell remembers himself and his five friends on […]
Alpha Gamma Delta sorority to revive UCLA chapter
Alpha Gamma Delta, a sorority with a long history at UCLA that has been dormant for more than 30 years, is set to begin recruitment again this fall and reopen its sorority house. The sorority ran a chapter in the same house on the north end of sorority row on Hilgard Avenue from the 1920s […]
Ryan Nelson: Financial literacy course should prepare students for life
Sometimes I wish I were as smart the E*TRADE baby. That’s not meant to be a joke, either. When you see the investment firm’s ads on TV, the message isn’t subtle: Our financial tools are so good, a baby can use them and be successful. Amazingly enough, when I started testing the murky waters of […]