When Elizabeth Upton started her job as musicology professor at UCLA, she was not prepared for the initiation process: creating a new general enrollment course. A medievalist, Upton created “Getting Medieval,” a course about modern incarnations of medieval things from Wagner’s operas to Disneyland castles and “The Lord of the Rings.” “I didn’t know anything about getting a new course approved. Read more...

A cappella singing is gaining a stronger voice at UCLA. In the last several years, a handful of new a cappella groups and music events have sprouted up on campus, offering more and more students a chance to create music using only their voice. Read more...

Walking through the dorms, a person would have to try hard not to notice the shared folder icons on students’ computer screens and the sound of music libraries playing pirated copies of the latest hit singles. Read more...

After deciding to enroll at UCLA as a transfer student last summer, I quickly packed up my belongings and hauled them from my astonishingly affordable Venice apartment to pricier digs here in Westwood. Read more...

To survive in the film industry is no easy task. For every Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino, there are thousands of would-be directors and screenwriters struggling just to make ends meet. Read more...

The Daily Bruin asked students if they had seen any musical performances this year that changed their opinion of a genre or group? Elaine Guzman Second year, English “I went to the Indian culture show. Read more...

According to the editors of Broke, a literary journal put together by UCLA students, there are a few reasons for the book’s title. First, it’s a dead-on assessment of the financial status of aspiring authors. Read more...