Week in Photos Spring Week 6
UCLA alumna and professional dancer Kyrra Richards initially felt ashamed of her diabetes diagnosis. However, she found ways to cope by creating Myabetic, a company that makes fashionable cases for storing medical supplies like glucose meters.
(Efren Pinon/Daily Bruin)
UCLA alumnus Brian L. Tan directed the film “Holdout,” which will premiere at the Crest Theater in Westwood on Friday. As a UCLA student, Tan founded the Film and Photography Society in 2006.
(Kira VandenBrande/Daily Bruin)
Under his tenure as police chief, Herren said UCPD was able to monitor individuals who may be threats to students by working with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.
(Kira VandenBrande/Daily Bruin)
Second-year English student Margaret LaGaly holds two loaves of her home-baked sourdough bread. LaGaly founded Winslow Bread Company in January 2016 and sold her bread to her UCLA floormates and her brother's friends.
(Shelby Scoggins/Daily Bruin)
LaGaly said she fell in love with baking and consuming sourdough bread after a trip to Tartine Bakery in San Francisco. She now looks to the bakery's cookbook for inspiration to develop different sourdough recipes.
(Shelby Scoggins/Daily Bruin)
Alumna Lulu Malaya Prollamante is part of the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles, a choir group of transgender people, allies, and people of the Los Angeles community.
(Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
USC beach volleyball player Zoë Nightingale (left) and UCLA beach volleyball senior Julie Consani (right) live together as roommates despite their allegiance to rival schools.
(Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin)
Megan McNamara (left) travelled all the way from Canada with twin sister Nicole McNamara (right) to compete for UCLA. Nicole and Megan McNamara’s opposite dominant hands open doors to a partnership that is arguably more effective than a righty-righty or left-lefty duo.
(Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin)
The Social Justice Referendum passed with 54.8 percent of the vote. Students voted to pass all four referenda on the undergraduate student government election ballot Friday. More than half of students who voted in the election supported The Green Initiative Fund referendum, the Social Justice Referendum of 2016, the #UCLAwellness Referendum and the Daily Bruin and Bruinwalk.com Referendum. The 2016 election had a voter turnout of 40.3 percent.
(Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
Amy Shao reacts after being elected Cultural Affairs Commissioner with 56.6 percent of the vote.
(Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
Bruins United secured nine of 14 seats on the next undergraduate student government council. Danny Siegel, Bruins United presidential candidate, was elected as the next USAC president with 52.2 percent of the vote.
