Monday, June 16

Throwback Thursday, Week 1: The longest dance

Bruins were dance marathon-ing for diseases years before UCLA professor Michael Gottlieb identified acquired immune deficiency syndrome and the AIDS epidemic was discovered. The Dance Marathon we know today debuted in April 2002 to raise money for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, but in 1979, the event began when Greek life revived UCLA’s annual Greek Week and raised money for the American Cancer Society and the then-National Foundation for Ileitis and Colitis. Read more...

Photo: The Daily Bruin’s 2003 coverage of Dance Marathon included a front-page centerpiece. (Daily Bruin archives)



What do the UC’s principles against intolerance mean for Zionism?

The University of California Board of Regents finally adopted its long-awaited Statement of Principles Against Intolerance last week after much debate. If you followed the news at all during the week-long hiatus between the winter and spring quarters, you’d know that Zionism dominated the conversation. Read more...

Photo: Student Regent Avi Oved was a part of a working group that wrote the recently passed Statement of Principles Against Intolerance. (Daily Bruin file photo)



My weeklong vegan experiment on the Hill

With diets that frequently come and go, we are inundated with a plethora of constantly changing and often conflicting information on what to eat and what not to eat. Read more...

Photo: Kale, the much-ridiculed vegetable, is somewhat of a symbol of veganism. (Creative Commons photo via Visualhunt.com)





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