Valeria Morales entered a shop on the Venice boardwalk to get her septum pierced and thought, “Why not?”
The first-year statistics student already had 10 piercings, including two cartilage piercings and a belly button piercing.

Oscars season has arrived in style at UCLA.
Students and Los Angeles community members will gather Saturday to hear the costume designers of some of this year’s most critically acclaimed films discuss their artistic visions and processes.