Bruins talk reasons why they use YouTube as creative outlet

Students at UCLA feature themselves on YouTube as a means to share and explore their creative outlets from fashion and makeup to dormitory life. Listen to Amanda Magana, Cameron Phillips and Laurel Stokes speak about why they began their channels and their goals.

Julia McCarthy: LA County supervisor candidates miss opportunity to cater to students

  Working for a political campaign this summer was equal parts humorous, challenging and incredibly rewarding. Think “Parks and Recreation,” combined with “The Office” and “The West Wing.” That’s how I found myself at the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors debate earlier this month. I went into the debate with the hopes of finding […]

Persistence proves instrumental to sixth-year Bruin’s success

While his peers go out to get lunch, Noel Medrano goes to the practice room every break between classes to improve his playing technique. This persistence to perfect his music has made Medrano a meticulous band director, a job he takes on during the summer at his old high school, John H. Francis Polytechnic High […]

Submission: Liberty-minded students must voice their opinions

The year is beginning and there is a war being waged. It is a war for relevance, war for prosperity and war for freedom. It is a war for electoral seats, but it is also a war of ideas. And UCLA is poised to be one of the greatest battlefronts. For too long in academia, […]

The Facing Project voices Bruins’ struggles to access higher education

Students who have struggled to access higher education will have an opportunity to share their stories with the campus community starting first week, as part of a year-long project of the undergraduate student government. The Facing Project, headed on campus by the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Community Service Commission, will consist of first-person narratives detailing […]

Women’s soccer’s Megan Oyster finds her center through adaptability

It was during a pregame meeting last year, before UCLA’s game at Notre Dame, when Megan Oyster saw something that made her heart skip a beat. Right there on the board inside the locker room, under one of two starting center back positions, was Oyster’s name. Even with the game just moments away, the first […]

Editor’s note: The Bruin is open to input from the UCLA community

To the Reader: In the short time that I’ve been an editor for this paper, there has been one ringing criticism that I fear more than any other: We, as editors and writers cloistered here in the windowless rooms of Kerckhoff 118, have lost touch with what people on this campus care about. And I […]