Welcome, new Bruins, to UCLA, the place where stuff happens. Yes, now you too can become an exciting part of this place and its stuff. Now stop saying “hella” and let’s get on with it. Read more...

I don’t write. I don’t really edit either. And look what I got into. From Electronic Media Art Director to Electronic Media Director, I have learned so much that I can’t wait for summer to arrive. Read more...

It’s been about seven months since I’ve last been on these pages and since a fateful night when three of the five sports staff writers escaped an out-of-control burning big-rig barreling down a dead-ended street known as the Sports section. Read more...

Three years ago I fell in love with The Bruin ““ and since then, I’ve been asking myself why. As a freshman on the orientation tour I found an otherwise gray office marked with wry reminders of its inhabitants and knew at once that these were my kind of people. Read more...

A few days before I moved into Rieber Hall in the fall of 1995, my otherwise stoic dad called me over to have a little “talk.” He started off by saying, “When you walk down Bruin Walk, a lot of people will try to make you join their group.” He cited various religious, Greek and political organizations that he heard about from his UCLA alumni co-workers. Read more...

When I came into this job, I knew a lot about journalism, but had spent my life running from it. You see, my father was a journalist for over 30 years, covering everything from the Kentucky Derby to major league baseball. Read more...

Sometimes I forget how prevalent activism is in our daily lives here at UCLA. The obvious manifestations come to mind quickly ““ student government rallying for diversity of community and thought on campus, Zionists and anti-Zionists debating about Israel, and the California Student Public Interest Research Group collecting signatures to protect the environment. Read more...