Royce Quad was once an epicenter of student life at UCLA. Now, in the digital age, the Quad is an attempt to recreate these discussion spaces online. Come to the Quad for analysis, explanation and student narratives about life on and off campus, within and without Westwood.
Computer science, by itself, is irrelevant. Of course, you could generalize that argument to all fields of study, but at least when you study biology, even if you don’t apply it somewhere, you understand how cells and organisms, including yourself, function. Read more...
Photo: (Kelly Brennan/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Apartment hunting season is a time of stress, disillusionment and grief. As thousands of students at UCLA attempt to find apartments for next year, some people are driven to the brink. Read more...
Photo: michael chang, joanne nguyen, vikram kumar
I was on the roof of Kerckhoff Hall yesterday, and I just had to take the chance to look at how UCLA developed. It was hard to imagine that when UCLA moved to Westwood in 1929, there was no Bruin Walk, no grassy hills besides Janss Steps and I probably would have be able to see Beverly (now Sunset) Boulevard. Read more...
Contrary to conventional wisdom, you can’t burn yourself by touching a firewall. Most of our everyday encounters with firewalls usually don’t go beyond scouring Google for a way to bypass them so that we can stream our movies. Read more...
Photo: (Creative commons photo by Dani_vr via Flickr)
For the past three weeks, students at UC Davis have been camped outside the chancellor’s office calling for the resignation or firing of their current chancellor, Linda Katehi. Read more...
Photo: A view of UC Davis’s Mrak Hall, where student protesters have been occupying for the last few weeks in protest of Chancellor Linda Katehi. (Creative Commons photo by Peter Hess via Flickr).
After a disappointing end to the UCLA men’s basketball season in which the Bruins failed to enter the NCAA Tournament, coach Steve Alford and his team will be fortified by the fourth-ranked recruiting class in the country, according to 247sports.com. Read more...
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)
