Wednesday, December 17

The Quad: How to handle jet lag and week one simultaneously

While many people experience jet lag only after sparse international travel, for international and some out-of-state college students, jet lag is just another recurrent issue to contend with as we return to campus from winter break. Read more...

Photo: For many out-of-state and international students, jet lag is just another part of returning to UCLA from longer breaks. (Appurva Goel/Daily Bruin)


Quad Questions: What was the worst thing that happened in 2016?

With 2017 right around the corner, it’s about that time when we all start to reflect on the past year and set New Year’s resolutions for ourselves that we will assuredly forget all about when week one starts. Read more...

Photo: UCLA students around the country and the globe will be celebrating the end of a year that’s going just a second too long. (Creative Commons photo by Paul Wilkinson via Flickr)


The Quad: Westwood’s poke toppings, explained

From the success of restaurants in Westwood like 800 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria, Bella Pita, ShopHouse Kitchen and Chipotle, it’s obvious that students enjoy buying food from places that allow for creativity and choice by letting the customer call the shots. Read more...

Photo: Poke, a dish originating in Hawaii, has become increasingly popular in West Los Angeles. At Poké Bar in Westwood, the dish contains tuna, octopus, vegetables, pineapple and rice, among other ingredients. (Erin Nyren/Daily Bruin)




Freeze Peach Friday: Protest Milo Yiannopoulos event, not shut it down

Milo Yiannopoulos is back at it again, and with his imminent return to campus, free speech has once again re-entered the UCLA news cycle. Yiannopoulos, the infamously anti-feminist speaker from Breitbart News Network and possible choice for President-elect Donald Trump’s press secretary, will reportedly return to UCLA sometime in February. Read more...

Photo: (Valaree Catangay/Daily Bruin contributor)


The Quad: Living with HIV in 2016 – has anything changed?

As we round out the last month of 2016, it’s become evident that we are not as progressive a country as we once thought. The nation elected a president whose candidacy ran on repealing the Affordable Care Act, which gave millions of Americans once-unattainable health care coverage. Read more...

Photo: What is it like to live with HIV in 2016? (Creative Commons photo by Sham Hardy via Flickr)



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