Getting a job isn’t easy. Students learn this all too well around this time of year, courtesy of countless rejections by unpaid internships, cheap local restaurants, department stores and more. Read more...
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June 25, 9:00 pm
[Orientation Issue] Arts and Entertainment: Liaison brings network, experience to school
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June 25, 9:00 pm
[Orientation Issue] Arts and Entertainment: Students exposed to film industry
When Professor Denise Mann was a film student, an arts education was a bit narrower than it is today. “I understood a great deal about how movies were made in a hands-on way, but I had no sense of how those experiences related to the complexity of the Hollywood industry,” Mann said. Read more...
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June 25, 9:00 pm
[Orientation Issue] Arts and Entertainment: Coming this summer: UCLA orientation
I’m oversimplifying, over-dramatizing, and over-Cliffs Notes-ing matters, but it should be noted that orientation tells you pretty much nothing about UCLA. Don’t get me wrong. I loved orientation; it’s still one of my very favorite college memories. Read more...
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June 25, 9:00 pm
[Orientation Issue] Arts and Entertainment: Free flicks light up UCLA screen
There’s a better way to catch free movies than downloading, and all it requires is a trip to campus. Sponsored by the Graduate Students Association, Melnitz Movies offers up free screenings of films every school year at the James Bridges Theater. Read more...
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June 25, 9:00 pm
[Orientation Issue] Arts and Entertainment: Comic books take over Hollywood
Pow. Smash. Kablooey. Written on the page, drawn into half-colored word bubbles, these exclamations of superhero splendor are nothing more than inked-in words accompanying an occasional clenched fist or two cars about to collide. Read more...
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June 25, 9:00 pm
[Orientation Issue] Arts and Entertainment: 21st Century Fox
Night in, night out, the Fox Tower sign lights up the Westwood sky. As the neighborhood’s defining landmark, it’s so ingrained in the collective consciousness of UCLA students that hardly anyone pauses to wonder why exactly the Mann’s Village Theater would have a sign that says “Fox” at all. Read more...
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June 25, 9:00 pm
[Orientation Issue] Arts and Entertainment: Experience L.A. beyond Westwood by bus
Walking down from the dorms to go to places like Starbucks and Diddy Riese was considered a big Friday night excursion when I first came to UCLA. Read more...