The records 10-2 and 32-7 might not mean much to the average person, but to any Bruins fan they are symbols of two of the best seasons in UCLA sports in recent history. Read more...
Opinion
|
June 25, 9:00 pm
[ORIENTATION]: Fans can find a cheerful home in Bruin sports
Opinion
|
June 25, 9:00 pm
[ORIENTATION]: College requires new academic approach
UCLA’s incoming freshmen are without question some of the finest students in the nation. The average high school GPA of these students is a 4.27 and their mean SAT score is 2010. Read more...
Opinion
|
June 25, 9:00 pm
[ORIENTATION]: Make lemonade of pre-college jitters
When I set foot on a rainy UCLA campus last year, I was awed by the immense beauty of the 419-acre block I would later learn to call my home. Read more...
Opinion
|
June 11, 9:00 pm
Good writing grows from the bad
It may be one of the biggest and best college newspapers in the country, but there’s a lot of bad writing in the Daily Bruin. I can’t remember the last time I picked up the paper and didn’t wince at a cliche or inaccuracy within a few seconds ““ and this is after the articles in question had gone through four rounds of editing. Read more...
Opinion
|
June 11, 9:00 pm
Messages last longer than the medium
In some contexts, disappearing paper stacks have been called art. That’s not necessarily the case with the disappearing stacks of paper that we produce. After all, most of us who work at The Bruin are sleep-deprived caffeine junkies working on a deadline in an office where the air doesn’t move and the only fans are for the computers. Read more...
Opinion
|
June 11, 9:00 pm
Developing a genuine thirst for knowledge
On the surface, the Daily Bruin office seems like no place for a carefree college student. A windowless, cluttered, stuffy office partitioned by cubicles, it looks like boot camp for the working world. Read more...
Opinion
|
June 11, 9:00 pm
My life as a rug: I may not get out much, but I know integrity when I see it
I come into contact with soap and water only once a year. I have stains that will never come out. People walk all over me. Newspapers and the orange chicken from Panda Express are my eau de parfum. Read more...