I’m oversimplifying, over-dramatizing, and over-Cliffs Notes-ing matters, but it should be noted that orientation tells you pretty much nothing about UCLA. Don’t get me wrong. I loved orientation; it’s still one of my very favorite college memories. Read more...

There’s a better way to catch free movies than downloading, and all it requires is a trip to campus. Sponsored by the Graduate Students Association, Melnitz Movies offers up free screenings of films every school year at the James Bridges Theater. Read more...

Pow. Smash. Kablooey. Written on the page, drawn into half-colored word bubbles, these exclamations of superhero splendor are nothing more than inked-in words accompanying an occasional clenched fist or two cars about to collide. Read more...

Night in, night out, the Fox Tower sign lights up the Westwood sky. As the neighborhood’s defining landmark, it’s so ingrained in the collective consciousness of UCLA students that hardly anyone pauses to wonder why exactly the Mann’s Village Theater would have a sign that says “Fox” at all. Read more...

Walking down from the dorms to go to places like Starbucks and Diddy Riese was considered a big Friday night excursion when I first came to UCLA. Read more...

In 1997, a war broke in a rural Chinese province near the Tibetan border. But it wasn’t a war over politics or religion ““ it was a battle between towns over who had the right to declare itself Shangri-La, the place that inspired the fictional town in James Hilton’s 1933 novel “Lost Horizon,” in order to draw more tourists to the area. Read more...

Although her professors at UCLA pushed her to pursue her writing talent, UCLA alumna Buff Given didn’t follow that path until receiving similar advice from an entirely different source ““ her astrologist. Read more...