They told him they didn’t want a bureaucrat, so Tom Skelly took the job at Chino prison. At the state institution, sprawled across 2,500 acres of land in San Bernardino County, Skelly’s job as the prison’s new arts facilitator started simply. Read more...
Photo: Tom Skelly, an arts lecturer at UCLA, spray paints a picture frame in his yard. He often works on his art from a studio at home. (Felicia Ramirez/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Students wanted Janet Napolitano out of office even before she took the helm as the University of California president. At her first University of California Board of Regents meeting in July last year, six protesters were arrested as they demanded the regents withdraw her appointment, upset that she did not have a background in academia and that she had overseen a record number of deportations as Secretary of Homeland Security. Read more...
For the first time since 1974, no incumbent is running to represent UCLA and Westwood in the U.S. House of Representatives. Henry Waxman, a Democratic legislator who represented Westwood in the 33rd Congressional District for 40 years, announced in January that he will retire after the end of his term this year. Read more...
Devin Murphy felt his self-awareness and self-worth deteriorate at the end of his second year at UCLA. After losing in the undergraduate student election for the position of a general representative in May 2013, facing hostility from extended family members for being gay and wondering if he would be able to afford to live in Westwood, he turned from his friends and family. Read more...
Photo: (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Tony Auth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and former Daily Bruin staff member, died Sept. 14 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after undergoing treatment for metastatic brain cancer. Read more...
Photo: Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Tony Auth started working at the Daily Bruin at UCLA before going on to become a professional cartoonist at The Philadelphia Inquirer. His cartoons were known for the emotions they drew from readers and for their ability to boil complex issues down to single images. (Daily Bruin archives)
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. Read more...
Photo: Noel Medrano applied to UCLA three times with the goal to be a high school band director. (Brandon Choe/Daily Bruin senior staff)
