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 […]
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Vanderdoes pushes for football success at UCLA
It took Eddie Vanderdoes all of five minutes to master a double backflip into water.
It’s this memory in particular – of a camp diving board – that sticks with Placer High School football coach Joey Montoya when he thinks back on his star defensive tackle.
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 […]
Former Mexican military cadet aims to give back
After a year of training at a military academy in Mexico, Francisco Reinosa decided to leave behind his country, the military and his mother to pursue a degree in psychology in the U.S. It was a hard decision, but one he said he felt he had to make to give more purpose to his life. Reinosa, […]