May 3, 2012 – Courtney Randall, a second-year psychology student at UCLA and last year's Spring Sing winner is not the typical rock star. You won't find her boasting a huge ego or showing up hours late to concerts. She is a talented and dedicated singer attempting to kick off a career in music, and with the help of her manager, she just might do so.

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Apr. 13, 2012 – The UCLA Philharmonia, an orchestra of music students here at UCLA, had its seventh annual All-Star Concert last night. The concert included eight performances by soloists who were accompanied by an orchestra. The soloists were chosen from a competition held in fall quarter in which they performed the same pieces they prepared for last night.

First-year Doctor of Musical Arts student Ryan Dudenbostel and third-year DMA student Jorge Uzcategui each conducted two of the performances. The concert featured the talents of 11 students from the Herb Alpert School of Music who won the fall competition.

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Apr. 11, 2012 – Digital humanities is being championed as the "next big thing" in education. UCLA is one of the first universities in the nation to have an approved digital humanities curriculum, with schools such as USC, Harvard and Stanford following closely behind. Digital humanities is trying to bridge the divide between North and South campus by using South Campus tools such as visual mapping and data mining on traditionally North Campus subjects such as history and literature.

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Mar. 15, 2012 – Paolo Pedercini is not a game designer; he is a designer who uses games as a way to convey messages not normally found in video games. He hopes that his video games can start conversations about the current video game culture, of which he does not approve. On Tuesday he gave a design media arts lecture on the bottom floor of UCLA's Broad Art Center, which excited the small crowd that was present.

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Mar. 11, 2012 – Third-year microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics student Jeffrey Lin and second-year computer science and engineering student Kirby Cool are two seekers on the UCLA Quidditch team. After a winning match, they discuss their strategies and experiences in catching the golden snitch.

Check out more coverage of the UCLA Quidditch Western Cup III here.

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Mar. 11, 2012 – Beaters and Chasers rode their broomsticks up and down the Intramural Field for the Quidditch Western Cup III, which was held on campus this past weekend. Katelynn Kazane is a second year Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics student and chaser for UCLA’s team. She explains some of these positions and how the sport cast an imperious curse on her, if you will.

Check out Mojo, which was regularly updated over the weekend with Quidditch news.

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