Freshman seminar aims to teach proper nutrition, body image

Healthy eating for Eve Lahijani means having a cookie every now and then. Lahijani, a nutrition health educator at the Bruin Resource Center is one of two people who teach the fiat lux, “Cosmo Says You’re Fat? I Ain’t Down with That: Nutrition and Body Image.” The seminar, which is the only Fiat Lux being […]

UCLA RAs look forward to starting year in new dorms

Walking through the doors, wandering down the halls and sitting in the lounges of Dykstra Hall this fall will be at once a familiar and foreign experience for Resident Assistant Taimi Jacobson. The fourth-year economics student will be returning to live in her first dorm at UCLA this year since its major renovations. The tattered […]

From point A to point B, a guide to getting around campus

Getting around UCLA is no easy feat, especially in the warm weather that accompanies the start of classes. In fact, sometimes the trek back and forth between campus and the dorms or apartments can seem like it’s uphill both ways. Even so, there are a variety of options available to Bruins, in addition to walking, […]

From dangerous to bizarre, UCPD stores evidence

Lost purses, a dozen poisoned dead fish and every so often, a deadly weapon are stored in Laura Rippstein’s office. Rippstein works in the university police’s property department, a strictly secured room on the bottom floor of the police department’s building on Westwood Plaza. She and the other workers in the property department monitor every […]

Aditya Prakash Ensemble blends jazz, classical Indian music

Over the last three years, the Aditya Prakash Ensemble has played host to a family reunion of musical genres. In its compositions, the ensemble’s unconventional comtemporary style – an ascending scale voiced by an Indian classical singer, a dissonant riff played by a Brazilian guitarist – unites the Indian classical music style with its much […]