Welcome to orientation. By now, you’ve probably noticed a few things about UCLA. For one, this isn’t your old high school. You will find yourself one of hundreds in the typical lecture hall, one in a hundred on your dorm floor and one of three in your own room. Read more...
Opinion
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June 22, 9:00 pm
Make the most of college challenges
Opinion
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June 8, 9:00 pm
Bye-lines: Does The Bruin anger you? Good
A lot of people hate the Daily Bruin ““ I know because I used to be one of them. News has a way of making people angry. Read more...
Opinion
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June 8, 9:00 pm
Bye-lines: The Bruin changes writers if not readers
I first took a tour of the Daily Bruin offices fall quarter of my freshman year. At the time, I really wanted to be here, and I fell in love with the place immediately. Read more...
Crime, Opinion
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June 8, 9:00 pm
Community ties are UCLA’s best asset
It was my first regents meeting. Not knowing where to go, I went in through the public entrance. After passing through the metal detector, the UCPD patted me down and I entered the room. There was a velvet rope that separated the University officials from the public. When I tried to cross this velvet rope to join the Board, I was immediately stopped by a UCPD officer, who warned me in a stern tone, “You don’t belong there.” Indeed, thinking about who my “colleagues” were to be ““ they were the social elite, political heavyweights, probably worth more than the GDP of a small country ““ I didn’t belong on the Board. As a middle-to-working class Pilipino suburban “kid,” I knew what I was getting into but didn’t know if I could handle it. I was obsessed with the question, “How can I push an agenda here?” I felt this intense burden to get something done with the time I had. With over 160,000 UC students, and only one on the Board, it would be a disgrace and disservice if this university remained unchanged on my watch. Read more...
Opinion
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June 8, 9:00 pm
Bye-lines: Feeling grateful for four full years
I guess it took me four years to realize just what I had gotten myself into here at the Daily Bruin, because on March 14, 2003, it hit me like a ton of bricks. Read more...
Opinion
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June 8, 9:00 pm
Bye-lines: No danger in jumping
Jumping blindly into a big canyon in Switzerland can evoke that life-flashing-before-your-eyes feeling that I hope you won’t feel too often. But there I was, attached to an eerily long but durable cord that would keep me from smashing into the canyon floor, canyon wall, jagged rocks, etc. Read more...
Opinion
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June 8, 9:00 pm
Bye-lines: Break rules for the right reasons
All energy flows according to the Great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy Him.” Some broke and peyote-mad Shaman Prince in goat leggings and a Viking helmet told me this at the roulette wheel in an American Indian casino somewhere in New Mexico. Read more...