Brittany Speer and her family visited Las Vegas in October expecting to attend a country music concert. Instead, they found themselves in the midst of an unrelenting hail of gunfire. Read more...
Photo: Brittany Speer, a UCLA emergency medical technician and UCLA alumna, received the Medal of Honor for treating victims during an October shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Assistant Photo editor)
Schuyler Poh has been waking up later since she started using electric scooters on campus to zip to class. Bird electric scooters connect to a mobile application that allows anyone with a phone and a valid driver’s license to access and ride the devices. Read more...
Photo: Several students have started using Bird electric scooters to get around campus. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Assistant Photo editor)
Isaac Felix woke up before sunrise to get to elementary and middle school, only to wait in four-hour lines at the U.S.-Mexico border because he attended school in the United States while living in Mexico. Read more...
Photo: Estefania Castañeda Pérez and Isaac Felix helped co-found the Transfronterizo Alliance Student Organization at UCLA. TASO aims to provide a community for students who frequently have to travel across the U.S.-Mexico border for educational purposes. (Chengcheng Zhang/Daily Bruin)
Students will be served free leftover food from the Hill’s dining halls, tentatively starting Feb. 15. Student organizations Hunger Project, Swipe Out Hunger and Students for Students partnered with UCLA Dining Services to launch Bruin Dine, which will distribute leftover food from De Neve, Feast and Covel dining halls in the Kerckhoff State Rooms from 9:30 p.m. Read more...
Photo: Leftover food from De Neve, Feast and Covel dining halls will be served to students in the Kerckhoff State Rooms from 9:30 p.m. to 10:50 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Marco Antonio, a former competitive break-dancer and yoga instructor at UCLA, spoke with the Daily Bruin about his methods of infusing his physicality and heritage into his yoga instruction. Read more...
Luke Mostert balances managing his college coursework with managing a scholarship foundation nine time zones away in South Africa. Mostert is the founder and president of the Litoro Foundation, which provides educational scholarships to low-income students in South Africa. Read more...
Photo: Luke Mostert, a third-year political science and economics student, founded the Litoro Foundation to support low-income students in his home country of South Africa. (Sharon Zhen/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Dressed in all black and looking more like a ninja than a yoga instructor, Marco Antonio flings the door wide open to greet the crowd of students waiting to take his class. Read more...
Photo: Marco Antonio, a yoga instructor at the John Wooden Center, created a movement known as Salamat Yoga which aims to bring more diverse ages, ethnicities and athletic art forms and practices into yoga. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
