UCLA’s annual Homelessness Awareness Week featured many events to raise awareness of food insecurity, such as the the Hunger Banquet, which took place Tuesday. I decided to attend the banquet since it was not just an ordinary event, but a simulation that attempted to reflect the experiences of people who experience food insecurity. Read more...
Photo: This week’s Hunger Banquet showcased what it is like to eat at a lower socioeconomic status. (Courtesy of Amy Truong)
In light of upcoming college decision season for the class of 2021, UCLA is pulling out all the stops to garner the best and the brightest. Read more...
Photo: A tour guide leads a group of visitors in Royce Quad. Tours around campus ramp up in the spring as high school students make college decisions. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Although many of us may have chosen to camp out in our rooms or flee to Coachella on the weekend of Bruin Day, our wariness of participating in the day’s festivities does not lessen the pride we have for being a Bruin. Read more...
Photo: (Harish Balasubramani/Daily Bruin)
Some days we may have intense cravings for food and are more hungry than usual. On other days, we may feel less hungry. There are many factors that can affect students’ appetites, from stress because of upcoming midterms to the amount of effort required to obtain food. Read more...
Photo: It may be sleep deprivation that leads you to reach for a greasy meal from In-n-Out. (Creative Commons photo by Christian Razukas via Wikimedia)
It was 4 p.m. on the first day of spring quarter. Instead of being inside my cool dorm room after a tiring day of back to back classes, I was standing in the middle of the Sunset Village patio frantically checking the nutritional analysis of the food options available at the quick-serve restaurants while trying to ignore the embarrassingly loud hunger growls of my stomach and the hot sun on my neck. Read more...
Photo: Quick-service options on the Hill are often unhealthy, but time-strapped students typically use them more than the dining halls. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Behold the UCLA campus. Straight ahead is the Powell Library, named after Lawrence Clark Powell, a previous university librarian whose son is a recent donor of $5 million to UCLA Library. Read more...
Photo: The Luskin conference center is one of many buildings on campus made possible with private donations. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)
