In the classroom, UCLA Professor Michael Chwe lectures about political science and game theory but outside of the classroom, Professor Chwe enjoys making instruments from store-bought materials.

Elements of traditional Indian music and jazz fuse together with classical Indian dance to tell an intricate story of illusion, relationships and the depths of the mind.

Ecochella introduces students to an easy way to generate renewable energy through the first bike powered concert at UCLA. Student group E3: Ecology, Economy, Equity hosts this inaugural concert to both entertain and educate students.

Winner of the JazzReggae Festival Battle of the Bands, The Street Hearts performs “Head in the Clouds” and talks about the confusion that accompanies impractical passions, which motivated them to write the song.

Fourth-year, ethnomusicology students Arianna Afsar and Andrew Cedar perform a duet of their original song “Trade Hearts.” The song, which explores heartbreak and the desire to move on, will be featured in Spring Sing 2013.

Watch Election Board chair Dana Pede announce the 2013 Undergraduate Students Association Council elections results on May 9.

For fifteen kopeks, players can play an arcade game based off of the game polo that utilizes a decapitated goat head as a ball. Jason Torchinsky, an artist featured at UCLA’s 2013 Game Art Festival, discusses the ongoing hoax surrounding his arcade cabinet “Ulak-Tartysh.”

Pulling out garbage bags of fresh bananas and cartons of unexpired eggs from a dumpster, students forage for food with friends. In particular, fourth-year political science student, Joanna Wheaton, spends her Friday nights dumpster diving to eliminate local food waste within her community.

The Undergraduate Student Association Council hosted an event for members of the UCLA community to support those that were affected by the Boston Marathon bombings. Through letter writing and a blood drive, people come together to honor the bombing victims.

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UCLA students Rachel Luba and Mei-Le Keck, training under head USC coach Ramon Espada, competed in the U.S. Intercollegiate Boxing Association Championships on April 11, 2013.