Sunday, December 14

UCLA students revive Chess Club, hope to recruit more members

Black-and-white checkered boards cover the tables in John Wooden Center’s games lounge as the UCLA Chess Club gathers to practice and strategize. On a center table, the team sets up one of its favorite boards – a blue and red platform that is played with toy human chess pieces dressed as USC and UCLA football players. Read more...

Photo: Galt Dunn, a third-year psychobiology student, plays on a special chess set checkered with UCLA and USC colors and covered with toy human football players. (Joseph Chan/Daily Bruin)





UCLA student ‘Rocks out for a Cure’ after cancer recovery

Julianna Corrao stood on a cross country course, her hands on her knees, panting. Her junior year fall season was over, and she had finished three spots away from going to the state finals. Read more...

Photo: Julianna Corrao, a first-year psychobiology student, spoke about her battle with cancer at the third annual Rock Out for a Cure event Monday night. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)


Bruins pledge to ‘Do It in the Dark’ and conserve energy

The sixth annual “Do It in the Dark” competition on the Hill ended Friday, saving over 230,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity. “Do It in the Dark,” which ran through February, is an annual contest in which Hill residents compete to reduce the amount of energy and water they use. Read more...

Photo: Hill residents danced in the dark to save electricity as part of Housing Service’s annual “Do It In The Dark” campaign. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)


UCLA club brings fresh produce to student community

The original version of this article contained multiple errors and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. Three students stood before half a dozen crates of sun-kissed strawberries and bundles of broccoli, grinning from ear to ear as if they were looking into a treasure chest. Read more...

Photo: On a table filled with fresh strawberries and snap peas, Erin Gerber, a second-year philosophy student and the business development director for the UCLA Food Buying Club, signs a check to purchase fresh produce. (Tamaryn Kong/Daily Bruin)



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