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Week in Photos Fall Week 6
Cheers echoed around a near-empty Rose Bowl, whose fans had long departed after the Bruins led 28-13 at the end of the third quarter. Meadors’ defensive teammates were jubilant, but subdued, having played more than 110 plays against a Buff offense that controlled about 41 minutes of play.
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Redshirt junior defensive back Randall Goforth, sophomore defensive back Jaleel Wadood and junior linebacker Jayon Brown celebrate with freshman defensive back Nate Meadors after his game-winning interception late in Saturday's game.
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Mairead Ahlbach (middle), a first-year political science student, joins her parents for UCLA Parents’ Weekend, which took place from Friday to Sunday.
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Sophomore attacker Max Irving had two goals in the Bruins in the 11-5 win over the University of Pacific Tigers.
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With 2:53 remaining in the first half, UCLA was looking to break the tie against the University of the Pacific.
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Actor Jack Shulruff stars in “Cloud 9,” a play which features gender swapping among the characters and actors. The two-act play begins in 1880 colonial Africa in the first act, then transitions to 1979 London in the second. Even though nearly 100 years pass in the play, the characters themselves only age 25 years, allowing for a comparison of societal norms in the two time periods.
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April Shawhan, the play’s director and and a professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, said the gender swapping in the play helps to convey its main message: to accept people for who they really are.
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“It’s challenging for the actors because they are playing characters that are very different from themselves, but that’s what acting is,” said April Shawhan.
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On Wednesday night, No. 9 UCLA (19-4, 10-3 Pac-12) trotted out some unfamiliar names against unranked Colorado (14-11, 6-7) that did not appear – or appeared only sparingly – in the teams’ first encounter in early October.
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Before attending UCLA, third-year ethnomusicology student Melena Francis Valdes took a 15-year break from college to perform Afro-Cuban percussion instruments such as the Batá drums, conga drums and the drum set with musicians such as Stevie Wonder.
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Four-year-old Melena Francis Valdes left her home in Havana, Cuba to move to the United States. The culture, Francis said, followed her across the oceans in her grandmother’s foamy café con leche and in the singing and chanting of the neighborhood festival.
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The women’s basketball team makes great individual plays, but that’s not enough for coach Cori Close.
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In Sunday’s 113-42 win over Vanguard, sophomore guard Jordin Canada had six steals and freshman forward Ashley Hearn had eight rebounds, but those individual efforts aren’t the only things Close is looking for.
(Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin)
Fifth-year civil engineering student Ernesto Martinez (left) and second-year biology student Amalia Ledesma (right) dance a salsa together in front of the Bruin Bear. The pair both attend Street Salsa on Thursday nights, where they learn different techniques and styles including salsa and bachata.
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3Doodler pens are 3-D printing pens that allow freehand creations by spitting heated plastic. Funded by the UCLA Office of Residential Life and UCLA Core Program Funding, this will be the learning center’s first event related to 3-D technology.
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At age 12, first-year political science student Hannah Brenchley joined the Great All American Youth Circus of Redlands, California alongside her younger sister.
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Hannah Brenchley performed in a circus for nine years before coming to UCLA. She was involved in acrobatics, tightrope and other aerial routines, rehearsing a trick upwards of 50 times during practice after class in high school.
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Gigi Schiller, a staff member for People-Animal Connection, pets Larry, one of the program's 70 therapy dogs. The program, which was founded in 1994, has dogs visit patients, staff and families in different UCLA Health centers to help them in recovery.
