I’ve been a copy editor at the Daily Bruin for four years now.
I know the term “copy editor” doesn’t really mean anything to a lot of people, so I’ll just give you a brief idea of what the people sitting at that large table at the back of Kerckhoff 118 do.

A student group will be competing in a drone race this fall for a chance to win over $1 million.
Formula Drone at UCLA is a club that partakes in “anything and everything” to do with drones, said Gerald Ko, the president of Formula Drone and a rising third-year computer engineering student.

A fire hydrant broke Saturday afternoon near the UCLA Anderson School of Management, launching water high into the air.
Los Angeles Fire Department captain Brian Wall said LAFD responded to the hydrant breakage at 2:23 p.m.

A tree fell near the corner of Veteran and Levering avenues Monday night.
An LAPD officer said the tree fell at around 6:30 p.m. due to heavy wind and damaged a car parked nearby.

UCLA students and faculty said they think the United States’ heated political climate has encouraged students on campus to be more civically engaged.
They’re just hoping that this will also translate into greater voter turnout.

When he was a UCLA undergraduate, Scott Waugh talked with his friends about the Middle Ages over lunch.
Now, after more than two decades in administration, Waugh will resume his quest into medieval research.

Students can now use their meal plan swipes to get kosher food at Hillel at UCLA’s building on Hilgard Avenue.
Rabbi Aaron Lerner, the executive director at Hillel, announced the program Thursday on Facebook.

The co-founder of a blockchain-based network told students via video chat Wednesday that the network can change the way businesses and governments operate.
Joseph Lubin, who helped found the blockchain technology Ethereum, talked about the potential applications of the technology to over 60 students at an event hosted by Blockchain at UCLA, a student group on campus.