Thursday, July 9


On meditation, diet, identity: An interview with a yogi

Daniel Miller Sandoval is a fourth-year political science and history student and serves as chairperson of the Campus Retention Committee. Click Here for more articles by Daniel Miller I first met yogi Sayler VanMerlin two weeks ago, on the urging of a friend who took the instructor’s Bliss Yoga class at the Sunset Recreation Center and told me that the class was the most unique leisure she had ever experienced. Read more...




Fulfilling surfer role is rough, dude

Adam Karon [email protected] Click Here for more articles by Adam Karon You shuffle around campus in your Reef flip-flops and Billabong shirt. Your hair is carefully sculpted into a chaotic mess, and every other word spewing from your mouth is “dude.” You might fool a Cornhusker from Nebraska, but you do not fool us. Read more...



New athletic director to bring “˜real integrity’

By Vytas Mazeika Daily Bruin Senior Staff [email protected] Chancellor Albert Carnesale described the UCLA athletic director position as one requiring a person of “unquestionable integrity, both real and perceived.” Then, with an almost seamless delivery, Carnesale praised Dan Guerrero, the university’s new athletic director, as a man of “impeccable credentials in integrity.” It seemed as if every other sentence coming out of Carnesale’s mouth included the word “integrity.” As Peter Dalis’ 19-year tenure is poised to end June 30 with his retirement, it will be important for UCLA to enter the Guerrero era without any of the indiscretions the athletic department has recently endured ““ including the handicapped parking placard and DeShaun Foster fiascos. Read more...