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.
An assassination took place in Westwood in 1982, but most students have probably never heard of it. Unless you’re Armenian, it’s unlikely that you know the names Hampig “Harry” Sassounian and Krikor “Koko” Saliba or the fact that they were involved in the assassination of Kemal Arikan, the Turkish consul general in Los Angeles, just a stone’s throw away from campus. Read more...
Photo: (Daily Bruin archives)
For once, a “killer cop” has been brought to justice in America – and how Chinese-Americans have reacted speaks volumes about the multiplicity of racial divides in this country. Read more...
Photo: (Creative Commons by Liance via Wikimedia Commons)
“404 Page Not Found.” “Unable to connect.” “Unable to join the network.” If you’ve ever tried accessing a website that didn’t exist or tried surfing the Internet while not connected to a network, you probably met a distant cousin of one of the above network error messages. Read more...
Photo: Network packets: hot stuff? (Creative Commons photo by Rob Villanueva via Flickr)
Pop singer Kesha Rose Sebert, known professionally as Kesha, lost a bid Friday to be freed from her recording contract. Kesha alleged that her music producer Lukasz Sebastian “Dr. Read more...
Photo: Kesha has not released an album since “Warrior” in 2012, yet Sony did not contractually release her after she alleged that producer Dr. Luke sexually assaulted her. (Courtesy of RCA)
This year’s presidential election is one that has already been filled with unusual and downright perplexing events. Some of the more memorable moments include the surfacing of Ben Carson’s theory that the pyramids were built to store grain and Hillary Clinton’s misguided attempt to connect with Hispanic voters. Read more...
Traditionally, when someone thinks about eSports, the games that come to mind are fast-paced action titles, be they first-person shooters or strategy games. However, Blizzard Entertainment has been challenging that notion in the last few years with the uncanny popularity of their free-to-play online card game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. Read more...
Photo: Hearthstone, a free-to-play online collectible card game, is unique from other popular eSports titles in that it can be played on a computer, tablet or smartphone. (Creative Commons photo by Sergey Galyonkin via Flickr).
Don Holley wrote a weekly humor column about his college life for the Daily Bruin. Thirty years later, the column became a 114-page memoir. After graduating from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television in 1984, Holley sold his first script which became the cult film “Loaded Weapon 1,” a cop satire with Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus Don Holley published “Half Loaded” based on columns he wrote at the Daily Bruin. He reflects on his experience as a Hollywood scriptwriter. (Create Space Independent Publishing Platform)
