Getting a job isn’t easy. Students learn this all too well around this time of year, courtesy of countless rejections by unpaid internships, cheap local restaurants, department stores and more. Read more...

When Professor Denise Mann was a film student, an arts education was a bit narrower than it is today. “I understood a great deal about how movies were made in a hands-on way, but I had no sense of how those experiences related to the complexity of the Hollywood industry,” Mann said. Read more...

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...

Hannibal Lecter will be staring him down. The squirrels might get a little antsy. And approximately 250 students donning the cap and gown will watch in admiration as he walks across the stage to receive an award he never thought he’d get. Read more...

While fifth-year World Arts and Cultures student Francine Maigue may have been this year’s Homecoming “Royal Bruin” Queen, it had little to do with how she ended up on TV. Read more...

Perhaps the most defining moment in TV in the past year occurred during the Super Bowl halftime show, but Janet Jackson was nowhere in sight. Following the complaints, fines and media circus that accompanied her breast-baring 2004 performance, CBS played it safe this year with an aging Paul McCartney leading the crowd in a sing-along of “Hey Jude.” He did take off his jacket, but that was just to give to a fan, and he had a shirt on underneath. Read more...

Most fine arts students dread completing the thesis that is required for graduation. But Amir Fallah, a graduate art student, saw it as an opportunity for him to further refine his unique approach to bridging the gap between fine art and graphic design. Read more...