This Week in the News serves as The Quad’s space for reflection on current events at and around UCLA. Every week, Daily Bruin staffers will analyze some of the most significant stories to keep readers up to speed. Read more...
A&E, Lifestyle, Student Life
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January 30, 6:33 pm
The Quad: The impact of influencer culture on marketing, social media and UCLA’s campus
Back in 2012, the cosmetics brand CoverGirl selected the popular Colombian-American actress Sofia Vergara as its new ambassador. Four years later, teenage YouTube makeup guru James Charles became the brand’s first CoverBoy. Read more...
Campus, Lifestyle, The Quad
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November 29, 4:15 pm
The Quad: Students cultivate re-commerce industry to counter fast fashion’s ecological harm
The word “pollution” tends to evoke images of devastating oil spills in vast oceans or black fumes spilling from big, industrial factories. Interestingly, the tremendous environmental implications behind the trendy clothes that hang in our own closets seem to constantly slip our minds. Read more...
The Quad, Throwback Thursday
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October 24, 11:39 pm
Throwback Thursday: Bruins have been a driving force in carpool services since the 1970s
Throwback Thursdays are our chance to reflect on past events on or near campus and relate them to the present day. Each week, we showcase and analyze an old article from the Daily Bruin archives in an effort to chronicle the campus’ history. Read more...
Lifestyle, Student Life, The Quad
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October 24, 4:49 pm
The Quad: Students who serve in military abroad consider how it affects college experience
Military service may not be mandatory in the United States, but it is in many other countries. As a result, many international students from countries like Singapore and South Korea will have to balance their academic work at UCLA with completion of their service in their home country. Read more...
Lifestyle, Student Life, The Quad
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September 19, 2:43 am
How to beat the homesickness bug and enjoy your college experience
We’ve all felt the overwhelming emotions that come with closing your front door for the very last time before you’re off to college: the rushed final hugs with your parents or the recurring feelings of distance and vast vacancy. Read more...
Campus, Student Life, The Quad
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August 20, 1:05 pm
The Quad: Upperclassmen share advice to ease first-year stresses and growing pains
My first steps on campus as a student consisted of a series of changes, such as the unusually hot sunshine in late September that was quite different from my cool hometown in New York. Read more...