When I moved to Los Angeles from a tiny town in Northern California, I was eager to explore the music scene that supposedly surrounded my new home. Read more...
Photo: Westwood businesses don’t often have live performances due to difficulties from the Westwood Village Specific Plan. This is an extension of the LA Municipal Code that makes the process of obtaining a cafe entertainment permit complicated and deters businesses from pursuing one. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA is determined not to waste anything – especially time. The university has set the ambitious goal of having zero waste to landfills by 2020, and is banking on its students and faculty to help contribute. Read more...
Photo: UCLA has a goal of zero waste to landfills by 2020. But past several flashy initiatives to rally students, the university doesn’t have solid ideas to make the campus truly sustainable. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated April 16 at 10:18 p.m. They say numbers tell the story. Here are a couple: About 45% of Bruins screened since January 2017 fall on some spectrum of depression or anxiety. Read more...
Photo: (Muling Shi/Daily Bruin)
Los Angeles isn’t holding its water. In the past, the City of Angels has been known as the land of palm trees and clear skies, hardly a place where it rains for what feels like every day for a month. Read more...
Photo: California might be blessed with a windfall of rain, but the cycle of mega-droughts and increased precipitation makes it clear that Los Angeles needs to think ahead when it comes to water. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
Dear Daily Bruin staff and members of the UCLA community, I am a firm believer that journalists should be telling the news – not making it. Read more...
Photo: (Axel Lopez/Assistant Photo editor)
UCLA is a world class research university that receives hundreds of millions in research funding every year. You can imagine the irony when students realize they still can’t find research positions here. Read more...
Photo: (Kyle Icban/Daily Bruin)
The California marijuana market has been set ablaze. Too bad students will only get a whiff of it. Proposition 64, passed in November 2016, legalized recreational marijuana for adults over the age of 21, effectively allowing the state to reap billions of dollars in potential revenue. Read more...
Photo: The marijuana industry is blooming, and it’s likely many of UCLA’s students are interested in pursuing careers relating to the newly legalized plant. The university should create more opportunities for students to learn about and prepare to work with cannabis. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
