Daily Bruin Graduation Issue 2013, part 1

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UCLA COLLEGE & PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL CEREMONIES

COMMENCEMENT

CLASS OF

2013

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Graduate Division Doctoral Hooding College of Letters & Science Honors

Royce Hall Royce Hall

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3:00 PM 7:30 PM

Thursday Thursday

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Luskin School of Public Affairs College of Letters & Science I School of Theater, Film & Television UCLA Anderson School of Management Fielding School of Public Health College of Letters & Science II Ceremony

Royce Hall Pauley Pavilion Dickson Court North Wilson Plaza Royce Hall Pauley Pavilion

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School of Nursing Henry Samueli School of Engineering School of the Arts & Architecture Graduate School of Education & Information Studies

Royce Hall Pauley Pavillion Dickson Court North Wilson Plaza

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8:30 AM 12:30 PM 4:00 PM 4:00 PM

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Computational & Systems Biology American Indian Graduation

Faculty Center De Neve Plaza Room

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12:00 PM 5:00 PM

Friday Friday

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Economics Integrative Biology & Physiology Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Sociology Geography Institute for Society and Genetics Gender Studies Chicana/o Studies Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Anthropology Afro-American Studies Graduate Studies in Psychology Lavender Graduation Earth and Space Sciences Humanities I Ceremony Neuroscience Statistics Humanities II Physics & Astronomy Chemistry / Biochemistry Psychology Undergrad International Institute

Pauley Pavilion Court of Sciences Ackerman Grand Ballroom Wilson Plaza Powell Courtyard Rolfe 1200 UCLA Anderson School, Korn Hall Covel Commons Grand Horizon Kerckhoff Hall, Young Grand Salon Dickson Court North Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium Schoenberg Hall UCLA Anderson School, Korn Hall Young Hall Patio Royce Hall Ackerman Grand Ballroom Powell Courtyard Royce Hall Schoenberg Hall Court of Sciences Pauley Pavilion Royce Hall

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Political Science Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Mathematics History Institute of the Environment & Sustainability Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics Communication Studies Asian American Studies English

Pauley Pavilion Wilson Plaza Court of Sciences Dickson Court North Ackerman Grand Ballroom Powell Courtyard Royce Hall Schoenberg Hall Pauley Pavilion

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UCLA GRADUATION-RELATED ACTIVITIES Ceremony

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Phi Beta Kappa Initiation Athletics Graduation Celebration

Dickson Court North Pauley Pavilion

E2 C3

4:30 PM 7:00 PM

Thursday Thursday

6/13 6/13

Army Commissioning Samahang Pilipino Student Celebration Asian Pacific Islander Student Celebration Raza Graduation Celebration Vietnamese Student Celebration African Student Union Celebration

De Neve Plaza Room Royce Hall Dickson Court North Pauley Pavilion Powell Courtyard Royce Hall

B3 D2 E2 C3 D3 D2

11:00 AM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 5:30 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM

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Marion Davies Center

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Bradley International Hall

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Student Activities Center

Luvalle Commons

Flag

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Haines Hall

Shapiro Fountain

Wilson Plaza

Ashe Center

West Alumni Center

Dykstra

Food

UCLA Store

Morgan Center

Acosta LA Center Tennis Center

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Royce Hall

Bruin Walk

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Fowler Museum

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Southern Regional Library

Sproul Hall

Rieber Vista

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Sycamore Tennis Courts

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Murphy Sculpture Garden

Campus Student Center

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Mullin Cornell

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Sunset Village Delta Covel Terrace Commons

Rieber Terrace

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Driving Route Ceremony Site

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Young Research Library

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Macgowan Hall

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New policy allows undocumented student’s return to UCLA Deferred action for childhood arrivals means Bruin can attend school, work and care for son

BY DYLAN NGUYEN

Bruin contributor

dnguyen@media.ucla.edu He was 16 years old and needed a job with more structure. But he didn’t have the required identification papers as an undocumented resident.

So he turned to identification dealers, who drove him around Santa Ana, Calif. and gave him specific instructions to jump into a different car when they parked. They told him he was going be taken care of.

F ra nci sco Lopez, now a third-year Chicana/o studies student at UCLA, didn’t know where he was being taken to, but he knew what he needed.

“I need an ID and a Social Security number,” he said he remembers telling the dealers.

Lopez knew what he did was a crime, but it was necessary, he said.

“I felt like I was in a drug deal,” Lopez said. “But all I was trying to do is work.”

In the end, he got what he needed – a minimum-wage job at a bowling alley.

Lopez, now 28, holds two jobs on top of his classes to support himself and his 7-year-old son, Mordecai.

Until earlier this year, he was an undocumented resident. But in February, Lopez qualified for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a policy approved by

the Department of Homeland Security a year ago. Deferred action provided the legal documents Lopez he said he fought years for.

The Defer red Action for Ch i ld hood A r r iv a l s pol icy allows some undocumented individuals to legally live and work in the U.S. for two years without threat of deportation, if they meet certain criteria.

Homeland Security initiated the policy to focus deportation efforts on undocumented individuals who pose a public safety risk rather than undocumented individuals who are young and productive, according to the Homeland Security website.

Undocumented individuals can qualify if they arrived in

LOPEZ | Page 13

RECENT STEPS OF IMMIGRATION REFORM Oct. 12, 2001 Gov. Gray Davis signs AB 540, which allows nonresidents to qualify for in-state tuition if they attended a California high school for three years and meet other conditions.

Oct. 8, 2011

2001 Gov. Jerry Brown signs AB 130, which makes scholarships from non-state funds available to nonresident students who have attended a California high school for three years and meet other conditions.

July 25, 2011

June 15, 2012

Gov. Jerry Brown signs AB 131, which makes financial aid available to nonresidents who have attended a California high school for three years and meet other conditions.

The Department of Homeland Security begins allowing certain undocumented individuals brought to the U.S. as children to qualify for deferred action from deportation.

2011

2012

2013

The bipartisan Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, which includes a 13-year path to citizenship and measures to increase border security, passes the Senate Judiciary Committee and sets for debate on the Senate floor.

The US has not seen such major immigration reform since 1986.

May 21, 2013

SOURCE: Daily Bruin archives, Office of Legislative Counsel. Graphic reporting by Kristen Taketa, Bruin senior staff.

Graphic by Natalie Chudnovsky, Bruin contributor.

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BY KENNETH SURAJAT

Bruin contributor

ksurajat@media.ucla.edu

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David Shamash, a fourth-year classics student, is one of the commencement speakers for the UCLA College of Letters and Science commencement ceremony on June 14.

David Shamash found himself in a dangerous part of town after getting off a boat in the middle of the night in Greece.

His hotel was 15 miles away and the city was in the midst of a transportation strike, the fourth-year classics student said.

To get to his hotel, he pretended to be the son of a New Zealand couple and hitchhiked by winning a ride through a bet with a driver. Spontaneous experiences like these are what he looks for in his life and are what define him, he said.

Shamash is the student speaker for the 2 p.m. UCLA College of Letters and Science com mencement at Pauley Pavilion on Friday.

Graduating students had to apply and audition to be a student commencement speaker.

The selection committee was

made up of professors, students and staff members, he said.

“I want a fun graduation.

It’s a great opportunity to end these four years on a high note,” Shamash said.

Shamash composed his speech with the idea of making the commencement more fun and exciting. He said that he added jokes in his speech and hopes to get a few laughs.

One of Shamash’s close friends, Tamir Sholklapper, a fifth-year neuroscience student, has worked with him at Camp Ramah as a summer camp counselor and said that Shamash was the comedian of the group.

Shamash said his best memories as a UCLA student were when he was studying abroad in Italy for six months in 2011.

While studying in Italy, Shamash went on a 10-day backpacking trip by himself in Greece.

“No cellphone, no guide, no map. I went around the

country. I hitchhiked. I rode on a random old man’s Vespa,” Shamash said. “I got lost. I got left in villages. I almost got pickpocketed but I fought the guy off.”

Other than Greece, Shamash has also traveled to 10 different countries, such as Spain, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary.

Now, Shamash is a student ambassador in the UC Education Abroad Program and encourages other students to travel while they are in school.

He puts on events and teaches students about why they should study abroad.

“You’re young, you don’t have a mortgage, you don’t have a family to deal with, you get to travel abroad and meet the coolest people,” Shamash said. “And you’re technically still in school.”

When Shamash enrolled at UCLA, he knew he wanted to travel, but he did not know

FINAL FAREWELL

Serena Lee reflects on her positive UCLA experiences in her upbeat graduation speech

BY KENDAL MITCHELL

Bruin contributor

kmitchell@media.ucla.edu Ever since she was a little girl, Serena Lee dreamed of graduating from UCLA. Even before she was admitted to the university, she watched UCLA commencement speeches online and aspired to give one of her own someday.

“I didn’t imagine that I would be one of the selected few,” Lee said.

On Fr iday, she w i l l be talking at the university’s commencement ceremony i n f ront of 10,000 of her peers, friends and family.

Lee, a fourth-year commu n ications studies student, is one of two students speaking at the UCLA College of Letters and Science commencement ceremony

in Pauley Pavilion.

After the College Commencement Selection Committee extended the commencement speech deadl i ne, L ee subm it ted her speech on a whim.

Betty Glick, the associate vice provost for the College Commencement Selection Committee, said the group chose Serena because her “upbeat speech” shared a wide berth of positive UCLA reflections and experiences.

Lee has participated in a wide array of UCLA experiences, from choosing to live in on-campus housing during her time at UCLA to attending Dinner for 12 Strangers and ser v ing as a news contributor for the Daily Bruin.

This year, Lee researched and wrote her senior thesis on “hidden disabilities”

SHAMASH | Page 10

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– inspired by her own experiences with brain injuries.

In winter 2011, Lee suffered a traffic accident that resulted in a concussion, brain injury, amnesia and short-term memory loss.

She took a year off school to recover from her injuries.

Lee said she never wanted to dwell on the accident or its negative effects on her life. Instead, she said she focused on the kindness her friends and family offered in her time of need.

W h i le i n the hospita l, Serena said her good friend, Jeremy Lee, left her countless voicemails of him singing, telling Serena about his day and reminding her of their previous happy memories.

During her time at UCLA, her passion led her to speak for all marginalized groups.

P au l Von Blu m, Lee’s

B R U I N S E N I O R STA F F

Serena Lee, a fourth-year communications studies student, will speak at the UCLA College of Letters and Science commencement ceremony in Pauley Pavilion on Friday.

LEE | Page 7

3 graduating siblings instill Bruin tradition in their family The Salcedos will graduate together and fulfill their father’s dream upon moving from Mexico

BY YANCEY CASHELL

Bruin contributor

ycashell@media.ucla.edu Ever y Monday n ight, Frank, Elizabeth and Victor Salcedo travel from their various jobs around Los Angeles down small, familiar streets to their parents’ house in Paramount. The walls are decorat-

ed with pictures of themselves and their family. The smell of their favorite food wafts down the halls while the siblings sit down to catch up with each other and their parents about their lives as UCLA students.

A l l t h r e e of t h e f i r s t generation college students will graduate with different degrees from UCLA, realiz-

ing their father’s dream for his children. This week Frank will graduate with a master’s degree in education, Elizabeth with a master’s in social wel fare, and a Victor w ith an undergraduate degree in Chicana/o studies and political science.

“It’s a dream come true.

(My children) deserve it,” said Francisco Salcedo, the father of the Salcedo siblings. “They worked very hard, and I feel

wonderful. I’m just supporting them.”

After moving to the United States from Mexico in the early 1980s Francisco Salcedo set out to get an education.

He attended night classes to get a high school diploma and then attended East Los Angeles College. He wanted to continue his education at UCLA but was ineligible for financial aid because of his immigrant status, said Francisco’s oldest son, Frank Salcedo.

“I feel happy that all of his hard work and sacrifice has paid off, and he can see the fruit of his labor (in us).” Elizabeth said. “Even though he didn’t make it he hoped his children would – and we did.”

So their mother could stay home and raise the siblings when they were young, Francisco would work more than one job with long, labor-intensive hours, Elizabeth said.

The Salcedos’ mother, Mercedes, never went to college and she said she thinks it’s amazing what her children have accomplished. She currently works as staff at an elementary school.

For their undergraduate degrees, Frank attended San Diego State University and

California State University, Los Angeles while Elizabeth went to UCLA. Elizabeth said she attended UCLA because it was a prestigious institution and close to home.

V ictor Sa lcedo w a s t he next sibling to choose UCLA, attending the school he had set h i s he a r t t o w hen he watched the Bruins play football when he was 7 years old.

Fra n k then decided the education program at UCLA would be a good fit for what he wanted to do as a teacher.

That same year Elizabeth found out she was accepted into a master’s program at UCLA for the following year.

Though their dad helped financially support his kids du r i n g t hei r f i r st yea r of school, all of the Salcedo siblings received financial aid, scholarships and worked to pay their own way for their education.

T wo yea rs ago, they a l l decided to get an apartment together out of convenience.

“It was neat because they were my older siblings – very protective – and I was a sophomore at the time, so I appreciated the fact that they saw me as a roommate and not a little

brother,” Victor said.

Though the Salcedo siblings moved out the following year, they still made sure they stayed close by eating lunch together at Lu Valle Commons every Thursday to catch up on each others’ lives, Frank said.

This year, they go eat at their mother’s once a week, to catch up with each other and their family.

Frank said he plans to continue teaching at an alternative education school after he graduates and Elizabeth said she plans to continue working with the City of Long Beach.

“It i ncre a se s my Br u i n pride definitely knowing that we’re a Bruin family,” Elizabeth said. “I feel like we are convincing our niece (to come to UCLA), we know she will have the opportunity to be a Bruin.”

Frank’s daughter, who is 6, will also be graduating this spring – from kindergarten, and has the mindset that she will follow her father, aunt and uncle and also become a Bruin one day.

The Salcedos said the Bruin tradition has been instilled in their family and will hopefully continue with future generations.

It’s a dream come true. (My children) deserve it. They worked very hard, and I feel wonderful. I’m just supporting them.

Francsisco Salcedo, father

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(Left to right) The Salcedo siblings, Victor, Elizabeth and Frank, will all graduate from UCLA with different degrees this spring, fulfilling their father’s dream for his children.

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POLICY AND PROGRESS

Four elections occurred this past year, bringing in a slew of new leaders and policies. This timeline lists the highlights of Daily Bruin reporting on federal, state and local stories that had implications for the University of California.

June 28, 2012

California Assembly passes resolution condemning anti-Semitism: The Assembly passed HR 35, which condemns all forms of intolerance at public colleges and calls on universities to swiftly and unequivocally condemn all acts of anti-Semitism. The controversial resolution led the UC Student Association to write an opposing resolution, which also generated controversy.

UC Regents endorse Proposition 30: Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax measure, which would have cut $250 million from the UC if failed, garnered fervent support from University of California leadership.

Student loan interest rates bill passed: Congress extended the deadline of a bill that keeps subsidized federal Stafford loan rates from doubling to 6.8 percent.

Federal

Aug. 28, 2012

July 18, 2012

JUNE 2012 JULY

PRESIDENTIAL RESULTS BY STATE

State

Local events

Nov. 7, 2012 Proposition 30 passes: California voters approved a measure that raises the sales tax and taxes on the wealthy and prevented a $250 million cut to the UC.

Nov. 6, 2012 Democrat supermajority legislature elected: California voters elected a state legislature with Democrat supermajorities in both houses.

AUGUST

President Barack Obama beat Republican candidate Mitt Romney by securing key battleground states, including Ohio. Here’s how votes break down across the country.

Numbers from reporting deadline: 12:05 a.m.

NOVEMBER

Nov. 6, 2012 President Barack Obama re-elected: Obama carried 332 of the electoral votes to Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s 206 votes.

Dec. 7, 2012

Electoral votes

U.S. Supreme Court takes on same-sex marriage case: The nation’s highest court decided to take a case on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California’s same-sex marriage ban.

Romney 40% / 206 votes

DECEMBER

# of Popular votes

56,403,582 54,910,229 Obama

Romney

Obama 60% / 303 votes

SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times Graphic reporting by Kylie Reynolds, Bruin senior staff. Graphic by Jonathan Solichin, Bruin senior staff.

March 6, 2013

Feb. 20, 2013

Feb. 21, 2013

Paul Koretz re-elected to Los Angeles City Council: The incumbent, who represents Westwood on the council, won with a significant majority of votes.

Online courses bill introduced: Senator Darrell Steinberg introduced SB 520, which would would require California public universities, including the UC, to develop for-credit, high-demand, lower division online courses. The bill initially spurred opposition from UC administration and faculty members but was later amended. The bill passed the Senate in January.

Open access to research bill introduced: State Assembly members introduce a bill that would make state-funded research accessible to the public. The bill passed the Assembly in January.

JANUARY 2013

FEBRUARY

Gov. Jerry Brown announces budget proposal: The governor outlined a multiyear plan to restore funding to the UC over time, including increasing state funds to the UC by 5 percent for the next two years. Brown also allocated $10 million for the UC to expand online education.

MARCH March 1, 2013 Federal sequester cuts begin: President Barack Obama signs $85 billion in federal cuts into effect. California’s budget, federal financial aid, federal research programs and work study jobs for students are impacted.

GOV. JERRY BROWN’S PROPOSED BUDGET

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$6,728.3

$5,069.0

$5,379.6 $11,880.3

$11,263.7

$6,453.0

Community colleges

TOTAL money allocated to higher education for 2013-2014

$2.8B TOTAL money allocated to University of California for 2013-2014

$250m

Student Aid Commission* Other Higher Education* $25,798.6

$24,498.9

Total $ in Millions

SOURCE: Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal 2013-2014.

Graphic reporting by Katherine Hafner, Bruin senior staff.

Graphic by Jonathan Solichin, Bruin senior staff.

May 22, 2013 Eric Garcetti elected mayor of Los Angeles: The city councilman won the mayor’s seat with 54 percent of the vote in an election that saw a very low turnout.

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International students subject to additional security checks: The Department of Homeland Security ordered that international students be subject to these checks when entering the U.S. The order comes after a suspect who came to the U.S. with an invalid visa was arrested in connection with April’s Boston bombings.

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On Jan. 10, Gov. Jerry Brown released his proposed budget for 2013-2014, which includes details of higher education funding.

April 10, 2013 President Barack Obama presents budget proposal: Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget includes measures to prevent federal Stafford student loan interest rates from doubling next month and set interest rates to the government’s cost of borrowing.

Jan. 10, 2013

May 23, 2013 Student loan interest rates tied to market rates: The House of Representatives approved a bill tying subsidized federal Stafford loan rates to vary with the market. The House, Senate and President Barack Obama disagree on a solution to the student loan interest rate issue. Rates are set to double on July 1.

*Student Aid Commision: 11-12 / 13-13 / 13-14 $1,578.6 / $1,654.3 / $1,752.6 *Other Higher Education: 11-12 / 13-13 / 13-14 $55.8 / $58.9 / $57.8

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Students push for increased dialogue with UC President Tough financial times because of severe state budget cuts have put a strain on the relationship

were starting conversations with each other and with state leaders about newly instituted budget cuts.

“I w a s ver y i mpre s se d w it h (Yudof’s) ability to come in and get ahead of the game,” said D’Artagnan Scorza who served as the UC student regent in 2008-2009. “He had already met with (stakeholders) before he came in – he was on it.”

Scorza said there did not seem to be many rifts in Yudof’s relationship with students at the time – students had not yet mobilized against the cuts.

Yudof met regularly with student leaders, just as UC presidents had done in the past. He supported recommendations that came out of a special committee on student and alumni affairs that was created by a previous student regent, Scorza said.

Yudof also helped establish the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan, which provides tuition assistance for all eligible resident undergradu-

BY NAHEED RAJWANI

Bruin senior staff

nrajwani@media.ucla.edu The relationship between University of California President Mark Yudof and the student body has been tumultuous over the course of his term, which has led students to push for increased communication with senior level officials at the UC Office of the President.

Ma ny people w it h i n t he UC, including students and administrators, attribute the troubled relationship between student leaders and the UC Office of the President to the blow of severe state budget cuts.

Yudof took office in 2008, around the time when University leaders

ates who have low family incomes. “ I h ave a lot of r e s p e ct for (Yudof). He did the job he could do from the space he was at,” Scorza said, referring to the University’s financial troubles. “Other student leaders may have had challenges, but I just didn’t have those experiences.”

‘Growing pains’ Students a nd the president’s office have not always been on the same page, which former Underg raduate Students A ssociation Council president Jasmine Hill characterized as a byproduct of “growing pains” during tough financial times.

State funding declined by 27 percent between 2008 and 2012, while the number of UC students increased from about 226,000 to 239,000. In-state tuition nearly doubled in the same time period, from about $6,600 to $12,000.

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THE COST OF BEING A UCLA STUDENT HAS INCREASED ON MULTIPLE FRONTS SINCE THE CURRENT SENIORS ENTERED UCLA Several factors have contributed to the increase in the cost of being a UCLA student in the last four years. For example, tuition rates, student healthcare costs and student fees have all increased. The total cost of living on campus has gone up at a higher rate than the cost of living off campus. Expenses such as living costs and transportation have seen minimal increases.

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Total off campus personal costs for 2013-2014 = $1,662 SOURCE: http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/budget.htm, and http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/archive. Graphic reporting by Steven Stewart, Bruin senior staff. Graphic by Regina Napolitano, Bruin contributor.

Construction alters landscape of the Hill Multiple renovation projects will provide students with more space, better conditions

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WHAT IS THE NORTHWEST HOUSING INFILL PROJECT?

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W h i le l i v i n g i n R ie b e r Hall last year, Usman Azam bec a me fa m i l i a r w it h t he sound of construction. As a night owl and late riser, Azam said he was often awoken by the early-morning construction on nearby Sproul buildings.

The construction and renovation are part of a series of projects that have transformed the Hill in the last few years.

T he Nor thwest Housi n g In f i l l Project i ncluded the addition of several new dorm buildings. The project aims to provide guaranteed housing for four years for incoming freshmen and two years for transfer students, said Suzanne Seplow, executive director of the Office of Residential Life. The university currently guarantees housing for three years to first-year students.

Planning for the Infill project began in 2008 and two new buildings in De Neve Plaza – Holly Ridge and Gardenia Way – opened last year, adding 408 dorm rooms to the UCLA campus, Seplow said.

The project was originally expected to cost $248 million, but has actually cost $ 230 million, said Barbara Wilson, associate director of rooms operations for UCLA Housing

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set to open early in the summer to host conferences and will open for students in the fall.

Additionally, a new commons building, called Sproul Presidio, will open mid-summer. It will hold a dining hall, fitness center and 450-person multi-purpose room.

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A 2 percent i ncrease i n the cost of living on the Hill next year will go toward funding the project, among other things, she said.

The construction of two new Sproul buildings – Sproul Cove and Sproul Landing– is also part of the project. Wilson said the new buildings will add 361 bedrooms. They are

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preparing to renovate Canyon Point, Delta Terrace and Hitch Suites starting this month, said Wilson.

The renovation of H itch Suites will begin on June 17 and the suites will reopen in fall 2014, Wilson said.

Work on Canyon Point will start over the summer and

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mentor and a lecturer in the com mu n ications stud ies, Afro-American studies and honors col legiu m depar tments, said Lee’s work ethic and passion for justice are catalysts for her community.

He said Lee exemplifies how an analytical and extraordinary intellectual curiosity can change how others view the world.

Von Blum called Serena “easi ly one of the top 10 students” he ha s worked with in his teaching career because of her intense interest in pursuing issues others

choose to ignore.

In her future endeavors, Lee said she hopes to keep her positive attitude about life.

She said she knows recent graduates who dislike the direction of their post-collegiate life, yet fail to change the way they act day to day.

She said she hopes that the real world does not distort her perspective. “(If) something bad happens to you, tu r n it i nto something good,” she said.

During her speech, Lee said she plans to discuss living a brave and fearless life.

She said she challenges her fellow graduates to do one thing that scares them every day.

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BY LAWRENCE HAN

Bruin contributor

lhan@media.ucla.edu Every Thursday afternoon, Broxton Avenue becomes a hotbed of bustling activity, as merchants and farmers set up shop for the weekly Westwood Village Farmer’s Market. From farm-raised fruits and vegetables to handcrafted jewelry, the market – established in 1994 – offers a wide variety of goods that attracts both regular visitors and casual passerby.

The market is not, however, simply an alternative to the local grocery store. It is a pillar of the community, bringing together the people of Westwood with its organic, fresh produce and unusual crafts and clothing.

As is expected of a city located in one of the most demographically varied regions of the country, Westwood is a city filled with people of different and colorful backgrounds – and they each have a different story to tell.

And in light of the approaching 2013 UCLA graduation, many of these people at the market had words of advice to share with the graduating class.

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Sue Savage, a market vendor, has been making a living by selling handmade jewelry, necklaces and dream catchers at the market for two years – even after earning two college degrees.

She sat behind her modest fold-up table, which shimmers slightly from the reflection of light off the multicolored stone necklaces lying in neat rows, proudly displaying the years of dedication that went into her craft.

“I don’t fit into a 9-to-5 job. I’m an artist,” Savage said. “I’d rather live like a gypsy (and) make less money.”

Savage said she had discovered she was 40 percent American Indian 20 years ago, a fact that her family hid from her.

After this discovery of her heritage, Savage decided to live a life of cultural exploration and freedom – a lifestyle she recommends for those not interested in accumulating great wealth. She earns a living by selling her artwork, which is inspired by her American Indian ancestry, she said.

“I’ve done about 400 powwows, but they got so expensive and hard to do, so I decided to try (working at) the farmer’s market,” Savage said. “And I’m happy here.”

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Not all of the market’s visitors are at the market to buy or sell.

Kathy Marshall, who graduated from UCLA in 1972, wandered down Broxton Avenue with her floral dress billowing behind her in the breeze, browsing the stands until it was time for her haircut appointment.

As she browsed, she ruminated on her own experiences as a Bruin and how UCLA and Westwood have changed over the years.

“They didn’t have farmer’s markets back then,” Marshall said. “We were all too busy protesting.”

Over time, however, the attitudes of succeeding generations gradually began to change as students and graduates became more focused on their careers, she said.

“We were in Neverland when we (graduated),” Marshall said. “It wasn’t until the next generation of kids came that they became more serious and businesslike.”

All of Marshall’s children have been relatively successful – one of her sons started his own company, another has won five Emmy awards with NBC, and her youngest daughter is a former writer for Charlie Rose.

The qualities underlying their successes are determination and the ability to take advantage of today’s global networking opportunities, she said.

“You live in a world of instant communication, you’re citizens of the world,” Marshall said. “Line yourself up with smart people and go create something.”

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Gnawing on a cob of corn while he sat on the curb, Shaun Lee was at the market on his lunch break to enjoy the warm summer afternoon. For Lee, the market is a muchneeded change of pace from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where he works as a researcher.

“I like dirty, grimy, street-side flair,” Lee said. “You get a better sense of the city and culture.”

Lee, who graduated from UCLA in 2005, said he is in the midst of expanding his career, currently finishing his graduate studies in public health at UCLA in addition to his work.

Before he got a job, however, he traveled around the world, an activity he said all graduates should do as soon as possible. Lee had chosen to travel to Asia and South America.

“Go see the world,” Lee said. “Once you’re botched down by work and obligations, it’s not going to be as easy.”

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At age 73, Abraham Lazarion looks young for his age. This could possibly be attributed to his values – hard work and a healthy diet.

Dressed in a bright yellow button-up and brown slacks, Lazarion was at the market with his two brothers, the three of them enjoying their Thursday afternoon by roaming the street of Broxton Avenue and evaluating the quality of the produce.

Arriving in America from Iran in 1959, Lazarion has worked a wide range of odd jobs – acting as a representative for a lightbulb manufacturing company, owning a liquor store and teaching. Speaking through experience, he offers his own advice for the graduating class of 2013: work for yourself.

“In the future, you’re going to have to depend on yourself, not others,” Lazarion said.

Lazarion also stressed the importance of maintaining good relations with family, marrying and having children.

“Getting married, having children ... these are things every human should do in life,” Lazarion said.

Graduating student’s resilience, focus pay off Victoria Gonzalez worked full time during her four years at UCLA to help her family’s financial crisis

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Victoria Gonzalez, a fourth-year political science student, was the main financial provider for her family throughout her time at UCLA.

For an assignment in her high school literature class, Victoria Gonzalez and her classmates wrote essays about their struggles at home because of the economic downturn in 2008.

The class turned the essays i nto a YouT ube v ideo t h at received thousands of views and national recognition. In the video they asked viewers: “Is Anybody Listening?”

In his first speech on education after his election, President Barack Obama responded that he was.

“I am listening. We are listening. America is listening,” he said in the speech. “We will not rest until your parents can keep their jobs and your families can keep their homes and you can focus on what you should be focusing – your own education.”

Now a fourth-year, Gonzalez is preparing to graduate from UCLA with a degree in political

science. But, at least for Gonzalez, not much seems to have changed, she said.

Because of a Southern California Edison internship extended to her through the video’s fame, she has paid her family’s bills and rent with her income as the main financial provider while also attending UCLA. Both of her parents lost their jobs after the economic crisis and have been unable to find work ever since, because of their statuses as undocumented workers, Gonzalez said.

At times, Gonzalez has worked 40 hours a week while balancing her home and school life, sacrificing her extra time from school for the sake of her family and future.

She went back to work at her internship even after witnessing her co-worker kill two people and himself in 2011.

She survived the shooting, escaping unharmed physically, but not mentally. Gonzalez said she was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder after the ordeal and went through multiple therapy sessions.

She said she knew that she

needed to support her family financially and to overcome her fear of the building where she still works to this day.

“I choose to be resilient, I choose to move forward. I choose to let every event, both good and bad, shape me and make me become a better person,” Gonzalez said.

But times were not always so tough for Gonzalez and her family. Before 2008, the Gonzalez family always had food on the table and a roof over their heads, she said.

After the economic crisis, however, both of her parents lost their jobs and their mobile home and were evicted four times over the next few years. The family even had to pawn all of their jewelry to pay their rent, leaving Gonzalez with a single pair of earrings.

“We knew how brave our parents were. They wanted to fall apart,” Gonzalez said. “When you’re stuck you want to fall apart so you can put yourself together again, but you can’t do that when you are a parent.”

In 2009, as a senior in high school, things seemed to start improving for Gonzalez after the “Is Anybody Listening?” video

gained widespread popularity.

In March of the same year, the students who created the video met President Obama. He promised them he would work for a better future for the students and their families.

“We were blessed for this video, we received a lot of donations and support to pursue our aspirations,” Gonzalez said. “This video stopped us from giving up.

We realized the strength of our voice.”

After high school, Gonzalez chose to attend UCLA instead of working a minimum wage job, a decision she said she carefully contemplated.

“I realized going to school would help my family in the long run. I owed it to my parents and my community for all of their support,” Gonzalez said. “In the long run I will help the community and my family with my career.”

Laura Gonzalez, Victoria Gonzalez’s mother, said she is grateful for her daughter because she is acting as both mother and father of the house, since she is the only one with a steady job.

Currently, Gonzalez’s parents

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While sitting in an old comfortable chair in the family’s living room, Laura Gonzalez said in Spanish that she is very proud of her daughter’s accomplishments.

“I give thanks to God that she is graduating, and that she is going to be able to part herself from all the responsibilities (from around the house),” she said in Spanish.

Rodnisha Ford, a fourth-year gender studies student who has known Gonzalez for the past four years at UCLA, said Gonzalez makes an effort to put others before herself.

“She has had to sacrifice her money, personal time and social life. (Gonzalez) is a family-oriented person who I personally look up to,” Ford said.

Some days Gonzalez would be in the library checking textbooks she couldn’t afford to buy because she had to pay her fam-

ily’s rent, and other days her and her dad would scour the Hill for recyclables just to make ends meet, Gonzalez said.

“I don’t know how I made it through,” Gonzalez said. “I made it one day at a time.”

Her work schedule meant she had no additional time to join clubs on campus, but Gonzalez still feels UCLA has been a big part of her life.

“UCLA opened the window to everything,” she said.

After graduation, Gonzalez plans to move to Seattle for a job as an assistant director at Grassroots Campaigns, a company that fundraises and consults for political organizations and humanitarian and progressive movements. She said her goal is to become a civil rights lawyer to serve her community.

Through all of the highs and the lows, Gonzalez said she has learned to be optimistic. “(My experiences) changed my life perspective and changed me for the better,” Gonzalez said. “(They are) a blessing in disguise.”

Contributing reports by Gloria Chong, Bruin contributor.

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SHAMASH | Speaker plans to travel after graduating from page 4 what he wanted to do in the future. He said he settled on a classics major on a whim.

Shamash said he grew a passion for his field of study because of the classes he took.

Shamash began working as a bibliographer for classics professor Alex Purves in her research last year. The two got to know each other through the classes that Purves taught, he said.

“He was in the capstone seminar with me,” Purves said. “He was very imaginative and a great interlocutor and listener.”

Besides working with Purves, Shamash also gives her recipes and cooking tips.

However, he said he does not plan to pursue a career in classics.

“It’s funny when people ask me what I am going to do with a classics major,” Shamash said.

“I keep a straight face and (say) ‘I’m going to be a Spartan warrior when I grow up.’”

Although he never studied it in college, Shamash said he has a passion for marine biology, specifically turtles and marine ecosystems.

David Bocarsly, former Under-

graduate Students Association Council president and Shamash’s close friend, said he goes turtle diving with Shamash at aquariums in Santa Monica and Laguna Beach.

“Every time we go turtle diving with him, he is always teaching us about marine biology and marine life,” said Bocarsly, a fourth-year economics student.

In his spare time, Shamash volunteers in West Hollywood with the SOVA Community Food and Resource Program, a program by the Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles dedicated to alleviating hunger and poverty in

the city. Shamash said he considers community service to be an integral part of his life.

“When I get to pack the food bag and hand it to a person who does not have enough food to eat and just see the look in his eyes, it is just the best feeling I could ever have,” Shamash said.

Encouraged by his adventures in Greece, Shamash said he plans to go back to traveling for a year or two after graduating from UCLA. “I just want to travel. I’m not ready to sit behind a desk yet,” said Shamash. “Where that’s going to lead me, I don’t know.”

THE HILL from page 7 will take about six months to complete. Wilson said Canyon Point residents for the 20132014 school year will live in Delta Terrace for the first six months and then move into Canyon Point while Delta Terrace is worked on for the next six months. She added that this renovation will be completed by fall 2014.

Dykstra Hal l was also closed this year for renovation and will reopen in late August.

The renovation of Dykstra was included in the Infill project because the building was built in 1959 and it needed an update, Seplow said.

“The primary goal of this was to update in terms of safety, mechanisms and cosmetics,” Seplow said.

Dykstra has undergone renovations that included remodeling bathrooms and mechanical systems, such as heating and electricity. The building will also be wheelchair accessible, Wilson said.

S oph i a Wei ner-L i g ht, a th ird-year psychology student, lived in Dykstra as a during her first year. Though she liked how social it was bec au se m a ny f i r st-ye a r s lived there, she remembers the rooms were smaller, the elevators were slower and the bathrooms weren’t as nice as those in the buildings where her friends lived.

Seplow said another reason for the construction is that Housing wants to improve the ratio of non-triples to better accom mod ate st udent

requests. Currently, about 70 percent of the dorm rooms offered on the Hill are tripleoccupancy, but on ly about 30 to 40 percent of students request them.

The addition of the new De Neve and Sproul buildings aren’t the only changes the Hill has seen over the past few years.

Feast at Rieber, an Asianfusion themed residential restaurant in Rieber Hall, also opened in 2011, and the Test Kitchen at Hedrick brought more organic and gluten-free food to the Hill when it opened in January. The Test Kitchen has allowed Dining Services to get feedback from students about menu items that will be served in Sproul’s new dining hall next year.

A lso, last August, Saxon Steps, a path from the Hill to Gayley Avenue, were closed off and replaced by landscaping.

Kristina Garnett, a fourthyear world arts and cultures/ dance student and a resident a ssi st a nt i n De Neve, h a s witnessed a number of these changes on the Hill since her freshman year.

“First-years now don’t even know that the streets near Rieber and Sproul used to be two-way,” Garnett said. “And Saxon Steps was my favorite way to get to the apartments.”

She also saw the opening of Feast and the Test Kitchen, which she said she liked because they add more dining options on the Hill.

Garnett has been a resident assistant for the past two years, and she is interested in how the increase in rooms will affect the job of future resident assistants.

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Graduate student strives to improve water disparity Miriam Torres, a single mother, will leave UCLA with a master’s in urban planning this week

BY SAM HOFF

Bruin contributor

shoff@media.ucla.edu Miriam Torres understands how important it is to have access to clean water.

As a child, she split her time between a lush, green area in southern Mexico with an abundance of water and a poor town in northern Mexico where water had to be trucked in each day.

She said her interest in urban planning and environmental justice is a result of not always having access to open spaces or water as a child.

Torres will graduate this week with a master’s degree in urban planning from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

She has spent the last two years working on part of her degree to resolve the disparity in water quality and access.

For her degree, Torres developed plans for parks in South Central Los Angeles and conducted research on how to replicate the project’s successes elsewhere – all while raising her 5-year-old son, Louka.

By obtaining a master’s degree, Torres said she also hopes to set a positive example for her son and other single mothers.

After emigrating from Mexico as a teen-

ager, Torres became the first in her family to attend college, she added.

Torres said she hopes to lessen the contrast of water access between the different socioeconomic groups she experienced as a child, which led her to study environmental justice as an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley.

After graduating from UC Berkeley, Torres worked for six years as the Southern California program director of the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, a nonprofit organization.

During her time at the coalition, Torres said she worked hard but received little pay, and kept the idea of returning to school for a master’s degree in the back of her mind.

Torres said that by leaving her job with a steady income to attend UCLA, she made an investment in herself and her family’s future.

She said she hopes to buy a house by herself and live and work where she wants.

“Some people are risk-averse,” Torres said. “Maybe I’m not.”

From her time at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, Torres said she has learned to expand her work beyond the subjects she had training in as an undergraduate student, especially by connecting her knowledge of environmental justice to the field of urban planning.

“Most of the injustices I looked at were the result of planning issues,” she said.

“I’ve learned to explore other areas instead

of just specializing, so (coming to UCLA) has really opened up options for me.”

Torres said she left the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water because she wanted to be better able to support her child after graduation. She decided to go to school now because her son is young and does not have a busy schedule yet.

When Torres comes to UCLA, she brings him to the on-campus preschool, so they are never far apart, she said.

“I feel really lucky and blessed that (my son) can come here with me,” Torres

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Miriam Torres and her son Louka, 5, sit on the grass together at the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden.

UCLA expands scope with various global health initiatives Increased interest from students has spurred the creation of multiple international programs

BY ARIANA RICARTE

Bruin reporter

aricarte@media.ucla.edu He remembers how the main floor of the Central Hospital of Maputo in Mozambique overflowed with sick or injured children on crowded hospital beds.

As a visiting volunteer from UCLA, Cameron Escovedo communicated with patients through hand gestures and broken sentences, helping doctors diag-

nose them despite the broken CT scanner and lack of medical tools.

UCLA has created several independent programs and centers that offer doctors and graduate students like Escovedo the opportunity to travel to places like Mozambique, Guatemala and China, giving them the opportunity to work with local communities to improve health conditions.

For example, David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA

Health System launched the Global Health Education Program three years ago. The program allows medical students to participate in research or gain clinical experience alongside other doctors and medical staff in countries with little resources and staff shortages.

Medical students’ increasing interest in a career in global health was a main factor in the school’s decision to create the program, said Lee Miller, the codirector of the program.

Students are also becoming interested in global health

because they want to increase their competitiveness in the international market, said Cindy Fan, the interim Vice Provost for International Studies at UCLA. “Health issues are shared across the world and emerging health care professionals can learn so much from each others’ techniques and experiences,” Fan said.

While assisting doctors in Africa, Escovedo remembers electricity in the building being unpredictable, making it difficult to run tests on patients with tumors and other internal prob-

lems.

Fan said she thinks medical students ask for these programs so they can have hands-on experience with patients.

He said working with patients at the personal level in the United States is sometimes difficult because of the heavily institutionalized and technology-based system, prompting students to seek opportunities in other countries.

Students not only learn valuable biomedical information through these programs, but also return with a better understand-

ing of the diverse populations in the United States.

“They come back with more humanism and cultural sensitivity as well as a greater commitment to addressing health care disparities here at home,” Miller said.

Miller said the number of applicants to the Global Health Education Program’s research branch has doubled since it was established.

Because of the program’s popularity, the medical school and

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After decades, student returns with new appreciation for education Bill Nipper first left UCLA in 1973, delving into the workforce before realizing the value of a degree

BY KATHERINE HAFNER

Bruin contributor

khafner@media.ucla.edu Bill Nipper was asked to leave UCLA as a student, had a stint in the military, raised a son and spent decades working various jobs before he really began to take his education seriously.

Nipper, 65, first attended UCLA in 1972, but after about a year was asked to leave because of low grades.

“I wasn’t ready for the workload of the type of classes I signed up for – business (and) law,” Nipper said, while pushing back wisps of gray hair. “I tanked all those classes ... so I became a college dropout.”

This fall quarter – 40 years after his first experience at UCLA – Nipper returned to campus as a transfer student.

A yea rly average of 557 students have been readmitted to UCLA as returning students since 1998, said Ricardo Vazquez, a UCLA spokesman.

In the past decade, 131 students aged 50 or older have enrolled at the university as transfer students, he added.

“I was so surprised they took me back,” Nipper said. “I feel so fortunate. ... They saw I had some potential.”

Many students now mistake

him for a professor, he said, laughing.

Nipper i s a n a nt h ropology student trying to take full advantage of the university’s resources after an almost halfcentury hiatus.

He was born in Oregon but grew up in Van Nuys, Calif. He briefly attended Los Angeles Valley College after high school, but was drafted to the U.S. Army in 1968 because he left school.

“Noth i ng w i l l give you a sense of the value of education like being in the military,” Nipper said.

Luckily, he was never called to Vietnam and left the army in 1970 to continue his education, he said.

After returning to Los Angeles Valley College for a couple of years, he transferred to UCLA. After leaving UCLA in 1973, Nipper worked by making miniature clapperboards – wooden devices used in film to mark takes and scenes – as souvenirs for the Hollywood industry, he said.

“Just like pictures of Marilyn (Monroe) or Elvis (Presley), clapperboards sold,” said Nipper, who made a living off of the souvenirs for almost 15 years.

For decades afterward, Nipper worked a variety of jobs, realizing that he needed to find

a more solid source of income.

“After getting kicked out of school and thinking I’d get rich anyway ... after 15 years nothing really happened,” Nipper said.

He worked as a projectionist in the entertainment industry, did field technician work and worked for eight years at Sony Corp. before his position was filled by someone else.

“The way the job market was ... I thought I better get a degree,” Nipper said.

After attending a local community college for two years, he applied to only one school – UCLA – where he got in for fall of 2012.

John Vento, a UCLA alumnus and one of Nipper’s political science professors at Antelope Valley College, encouraged him to apply to the university. “(Nipper) was a real pleasure to have in my class,” said Vento, who graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1993. “He seemed really proud of his opportunity to go back to school and being able to pursue (his education).”

Vento said Nipper was one of the students most comfortable with speaking about politics in class.

“Most students are 18 to 20 (years old) and haven’t been directly affected by the government yet,” Vento said. “(Nipper) was drafted. ... Being able to share those stories in class would be how we could con-

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Bill Nipper, 65, is in the middle of his second stint as a UCLA undergraduate student, 40 years after he first attended classes in the 1970s. This time around, he plans to take full advantage of the university’s resources.

nect.”

Nipper would stay after class and talk with Vento about a particular election, local government issues or even UCLA football games.

“I always give (students) extra points if they can remember ( UCL A footba l l ga me) points and such – he really liked that,” Vento added with a laugh.

When he was accepted to UCLA, Nipper emailed Vento excitedly, Vento said.

“Because I wasn’t taking (UCLA) too seriously (the first time), I sort of had a negative feeling about it,” Nipper said.

“Just the feeling of getting back here is so fulfilling for me.”

He started off his second time at UCLA with a negative grade point average, he said.

But now, he has to complete only two more quarters to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology.

“I’m just so happy I can pass a college-level course,” Nipper said, with a laugh.

Nipper currently lives on a 20-acre home at the base of the Tehachapi Mountains with his 34-year-old son Will, and he commutes to campus twice a week for class. He said he wakes up at 3:30 a.m. on the days he commutes in order to get to campus by 6 a.m.

Before class, he swims at the

North Pool on campus and goes for breakfast at Covel Commons Residential Restaurant.

He said he is trying to take advantage of everything the school has to offer this time around.

After graduation next year, Nipper is not sure what he wants to do. He said he may want to pursue something in anthropology or return to field technician work, this time with a degree.

“At 65, I’m not sure if I really want a job, but I really feel like I’m getting a bigger picture,” Nipper said. “Geez, after two more quarters, I’ll probably miss the place.”

RADIO: The Five Professors You Meet in College “Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one,” Mitch Albom writes in ‘The Five People You Meet in Heaven.’”

Students share their experiences with “The Five Professors You Meet In College” – teachers who inspired and challenged students inside and out of the classroom.

Professor Jonathan Kuntz is popular amongst students for his extensive knowledge of film and ability to make otherwise archaic, silent and black-and-white films come to life.

Armenian professor Hagop Kouloujian takes an all-encompassing approach to learning a language by combining history, culture, literature and creative writing.

Professor Jay Phelan, a UCLA alumnus himself, teaches a popular life science GE to North Campus students and encourages them to embrace the difficult subject matter by thinking about how the ideas relate to their everyday lives.

English students recommend Professor Maureen Shay, who teaches courses about graphic novels, refugee narratives and Irish literature, because she assures them it’s OK to make mistakes.

Professor William Whiting from physiological sciences is known to put students on the spot in class, but teaches them that there is more room for creativity in science than they might believe.

Graduating seniors will carry the lessons they’ve learned from professors throughout their time at UCLA – lessons they can now apply and put to use in the real world. In the words of Mitch Albom: “All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”

Listen to more on the The Five Professors You Meet In College with radio reporters Jonaki Mehta and Lilit Arakelyan at dailybruin.com/radio.

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region.

Medical anthropology is the study of health beliefs and pracfrom page 12 tices across different cultures, a subject imperative to underUCLA Health System created standing health disparities, said Center for World Health to focus Bonnie Taub, interim chair of on improving UCLA’s global the Latin American Studies health relationships Graduate Program. through initiatives I n a dd it ion t o like building busihosting the lectures, We need ness partnerships to enter different Taub and a team of and conducti ng graduate students research, Miller said. countries with the a n d h e a l t h c a r e T he S c ho ol of mentality that we professionals travel Medicine is not the are guests.” to Latin American only institution trycountries to improve ing to give profesReza Jarrahy h e a l t h t h e r e b y sionals experience examining their way Plastic surgeon of life. working with other cultures.

Reza Jarrahy, a The UCLA Latin American plastic surgeon at UCLA RonInstitute, which is dedicated to ald Reagan Medical Center, understanding the culture and has been volunteering in Latin region of Latin America, start- American countries for 10 years. ed a series of lectures this year He repairs severe facial deformiabout understanding medical ties in children with problems anthropology in order to offer like cleft lip. the best care to patients in the He said he would receive calls

TORRES | Student plans on using degree to help underserved communities in LA

after he returned to America informing him that the stitches and skin grafts he completed in surgeries were falling apart – a rare occurrence, said Jarrahy.

He spent time in the communities of his patients, learning that they constantly inhaled fumes and ash from open flames which families used for cooking and heat. The unhealthy home environments explained the poor surgical outcomes, Jarrahy said.

“When you get to know where your patient is coming from, it makes a huge difference in how you treat,” he said.

Fan said doctors from visiting and host countries should share their experiences with patients because each country’s health system can be improved by the other.

“We need to enter different countries with the mentality that we are guests, and both sides can mutually learn from each other,” Jarrahy said.

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Her upbringing and under“(Torres) makes it ver y graduate studies concerning easy to work with her because environmental injustice gave she’s so open to ideas,” FranTorres the drive to work on co s a id, a dd i n g t h at she improving water quality and admires Torres’ tenacity to access for people be a voice for disin disadvantaged advantaged people. com munities in (Torres) has Torres said she South Centra l other women created a beauti- hopes Los Angeles. w ill not let being T o r r e s i s ful life for herself a single mother or one of ver y few and her son. ... It’s coming from a dise n v i r o n me nt a l really inspiring.” advantaged backadvocates w ith ground like herself a focus on water Valentina Savelyeva s t o p t h e m f r o m who gives a voice attending college.

Friend S h e s a i d s h e to u nderser ved L .A . com mu n iencourages women ties, said Viviana Franco, the considering attending school executive director of From to pursue education even if Lot To Spot, a nonprofit orga- they are single mothers. nization that Torres hired as “I did it,” Torres said. “So part of her work. anyone can.”

said. “We can ride to campus together, which lets us spend quality time with each other.”

Torres has always had big visions and is eager to learn new things, said Valentina Savelyeva, a friend who lived with Torres as an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley.

Savelyeva said their friendship began during a spontaneous road trip together during college, where they bonded and shared stories of the countries they came from. “(Torres) has created a beautiful life for herself and her son, especially given her situation,” Savelyeva said.

“It’s really inspiring.”

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Francisco Lopez, a third-year Chicana/o studies student, works two jobs to support himself and his 7-year-old son, Mordecai.

LOPEZ

lowship to work at the UCLA Anderson School of Management for two years, helping inspect health institutions, from page 3 such as medical clinics. He also the country before the age of began consulting for the UCLA 16, and are currently enrolled Health System. in school or have graduated I n r e c e n t y e a r s , UC L A from high school. administration has become Deferred action has allowed mor e aw a r e of t he ne e d s undocumented individuals to undocumented students have take jobs that pay higher than on campus, said Paolo Velasco, m i n i mu m w a ge, sa id R au l director of the Bruin Resource Hinojosa-Ojeda, an associate Center. In 2009, UCLA estabChicana/o studies professor. lished the Bruin Resource CenBecause of deferred action, ter, which now holds programs Lopez said he no longer has to and workshops like information lie about who he is. sessions and luncheons to supWhen Lopez received his port undocumented students at approval in February, he said UCLA, Velasco said. the small work permit seemed But at the end of Lopez’s secphysically insignificant com- ond year, the birth of his son pared to his long struggle to changed his life forever. find a stable job.

He took two years off from “I felt anger because I have UCLA to raise his son before been fighting so long to finally returning for his third year. get this piece of plastic that told But Lopez ended up dropme I could work,” Lopez said. ping out entirely because of ris“But I was happy because I real- ing tuition and personal issues. ized I can’t be deported and I Lopez spent the next several can now fulfill my potential.” years back in Riverside, where Born in Tepic, Mexico, Lopez he once again had to use fake was 5 years old when his moth- documents to secure a job. er took him and his younger He found work, but it varied brother across the U.S.-Mexico from making $20 an hour as a border without legal authoriza- consultant to making minimum tion. wage lifting boxes in warehousHis family settled in Riv- es. erside, where Lopez attended In 2009, the UCLA Health school and worked many jobs System offered Lopez official to help provide for his family. employment to work as an anaHe first took inforlyst, but because mal jobs that didn’t Lopez had no docurequire documents, he could not (Deferred ments like working as an take the job. apprentice garden- action) has been After Lopez qualer and construction a massive and ified for deferred worker. But he soon extraordinary action in February, realized he needed he finally accepted to take on jobs with change of my life.” the job offer at the more “structure.”

UCLA Health SysFrancisco Lopez tem. He had been O v e r t i m e, h e Third-year student work i ng two jobs said he gradually understood the lim– one at a local fast itations of his legal status. food chain and one at the UCLA When he had to drive, he Office of Undergraduate Admisfaced the fear of being pulled sions. over by the police and having And with the job security of to pay expensive fines for not deferred action, Lopez resumed having a driver’s license. his education this spring quarOne year, he had to spend ter, as a third-year student at more than $4,000 for all the UCLA. tickets he received for driving A lthough his future now without a license. seems more stable, Lopez said L op e z d id w el l i n h i g h he and his family still live in school, took seven Advanced uncertainty.

Placement classes and com“ E v e n u n d e r (d e fe r r e d peted in his school’s academic action), it is only a two-year decathlon. He was accepted at program that I have to renew,” UCLA in 2002.

Lopez said. “My family is still Lopez was in the first class of undocumented and my mom California undocumented stu- still lives with the fear of being dents to benefit from AB 540, a deported.” state policy that allows undocI m m i g ration refor m ha s umented individuals to pay been a source of considerable in-state tuition, which helped debate in recent months. greatly, Lopez said.

Because of the growing numHe had to bring stacks of ber of Latinos who are becomcash to Murphy Hall to pay for ing politically active, lawmakhis tuition, because he couldn’t ers have felt more pressure to get access to a bank account address immigration reform. without documents. The clerk I n the mea nti me, Lopez didn’t understand and asked plans to work fu l l ti me for what was wrong with him when UCLA Health System this sumhe could not provide a Social mer and is working out employSecurity number, he said. ment details for the fall while Because of experiences like he pursues his degree. this, Lopez and his friends cre“(Deferred action) has been ated the Improving Dreams, a massive and extraordinary Equality, Access and Success change of my life,” he said. group, or IDEAS, to advocate “Now my (job prospects) are for undocumented students. more secure and I know who Lopez also received a fel- I am.”

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YUDOF | Communication between University groups has increased from page 7 Students said they felt the University did not do enough to keep tuition increases at a minimal, while University officials said they felt there was no other way to deal with sudden budget cuts.

Yudof meets with the University of California Student Association about three times a year and with a Council of Presidents, comprised of student government presidents across the system, about once a year, said Jerlena Griffin-Desta, executive director of student affairs at the UC Office of the President.

The president also met with student groups like the Muslim Student Association and the Afrikan Student Union after campus climate-related incidents, Griffin-Desta said.

But, many student leaders have said they do not think Yudof has done enough to bridge the gap between students and his office.

For i n st a nce, t he Un iver sit y changed its logo last year, a change that caused backlash among many students a nd was eventua l ly reversed.

Student leaders said the UC officials did not reach out to them to

get their input on changes to the logo. Current USAC President John Joanino, who served on the UCSA board for two years, said the University’s attempt to change its logo without student input highlighted a lack of connection between students and the University leadership.

Some of the frustration students have might stem from the fact that Yudof was an administrator at the University of Texas and was not from the UC system – students weren’t familiar with him when he took office, said former student regent Alfredo Mireles.

UC Board of Regents meetings used to rotate at different campuses across the UC, but the board has mostly met at UC San Francisco in recent years.

In 2009, about 500 students protested outside Covel Commons after a regents committee approved a 32 percent student fee increase during a regents meeting on campus. Many of the regents were unable to leave the building because of the student protesters.

A regents meeting scheduled for November 2011 – around the same time Occupy-style movements sprang up on UC campuses – was canceled

because of UC officials’ concerns that “rogue elements” would be present at the meeting along with nonviolent demonstrators.

Yudof does not usually visit individual campuses, partly because of security reasons – his visit could disrupt normal campus operations, Griffin-Desta said.

“Sometimes the presidency ignites a lot of passions in students and staff, that going out to campuses has caused a lot of disruptions of normal campus operations,” she said.

The road ahead Despite the criticism, many student leaders said they have noticed increased conversation between students and the University’s senior leadership in the last few years.

Yudof started meeting with the Council of Presidents in 2010-2011 school year, when Hill was USAC president. Student leaders at the time came up with the idea to organize meetings between student body presidents and Yudof.

“It took a while to get the meeting because it needed some justification, which seemed a little ludicrous,” Hill said.

In the past two years, students

and the UC Regents participated in joint lobby days to encourage state lawmakers to advocate for increased funding to the university.

The regents board is also in the process of adding two more students to regental committees, increasing the number of students on the committee from four to six, said Raquel Morales, the current UCSA president.

“I attribute (the increased collaboration) to the strength of UCSA and the systemwide student leadership that has done a lot to earn the respect of people in the state,” said Jonathan Stein, who served as the UC student regent this past year. “(The students) have proven themselves to be effective.”

Hill and Joanino said they would like the new University president take the initiative to engage with students by visiting campuses more often and by pushing the regents to hold their meetings at different UC campuses instead of just one.

“It’s a lot harder for students to hate an administrator if they know what that administrator looks like and realize that the administrator is a person. ... The next president needs to be someone that students can connect with,” Stein said.

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Graduation Issue 2013

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For those who came before, those yet to come JAMES BARRAGAN

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wrote the personal essay to my college applications about the Wu-Tang Clan’s song “C.R.E.A.M.” It’s a song about growing up in rough neighborhoods, dealing with gang violence and drugs and thinking that money is the only way out.

That song summed up the way many of the kids in my high school seemed to think.

But I wanted something different. I wanted to get an education and change the world.

“I want to be a writer so I can come back to kids like me and tell them that there’s another way,” I wrote.

In my application to the Daily Bruin, I mirrored that thought.

“I want to tell the stories about people like me,” I remember saying in my nervewracking interview for an intern position on the paper.

I’ve worked at The

Bruin for four years now, and I don’t think I can comfortably say that I have told those stories.

I can point to places here and there where this paper, which I had the pleasure of running for an entire year, has told those stories, but there are not many and that makes me feel like I’ve failed a little.

So I wanted to take the last thing I’ll ever write for this paper and dedicate it to the people who are like me and made me the person I am today – the wonderful people of the city of Pomona, Calif.

This is for the kids trying to go to college even though their teachers tell them they’re not good enough.

This is for second-grade teachers telling a kid from a minority background that his dream to be the president of the United States is completely plausible because this

is the United States.

This is for Barack Obama, for proving that true.

This is for my brothers in community college because they didn’t have money to afford to go directly to a fouryear university.

This is for my sisters who couldn’t go to college to pursue their dreams because their patriarchal society told them that a woman’s place is at home taking care of the family.

This is for those who made it to college – that ivory tower where they were promised they would encounter enlightened people – but only encountered the same discrimination they experienced back home.

This is for the DREAMers who have to sit around doing nothing with their college diplomas because they are missing one little piece of paper that our society says gives them right to be here.

This is for my friends who are too afraid to come out because their parents won’t accept the person they love.

This is for the mothers and fathers working two or three jobs to make ends meet, and not being able to see their kids because otherwise there would be no food on the table.

This is for the kids who feel neglected because their parents are not around.

This is for the older brothers and sisters stepping up to take care of their younger siblings because their parents are not there.

This is for our brothers and sisters fighting in the military to keep this country safe.

This is for anybody who’s ever been locked up – it’s never too late to change.

I haven’t written about these people nearly enough, and that’s one of my biggest regrets.

But I accomplished at least one of the goals I set out in my intern application when I was a wideeyed freshman – I’m a writer and

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I don’t know where I’ll end up working after I finish my internship at the Austin American-Statesman this summer, but wherever I go I’ll take the stories of these folks with me.

And maybe this is just the beginning. Hopefully, I am just a voice shouting in the wilderness to prepare the way for much better storytellers who come where I come from.

If that turns out to be the case, I’ll have to thank all the wonderful and understanding people I met and worked with here at The Bruin for helping me get the ball rolling.

I can’t imagine what life would have been like at UCLA these four years if I had not worked here.

This is for the Daily Bruin, thank you.

Barragan was editor-in-chief from 2012-2013, assistant news editor from 2011-2012 and a news and video reporter from 2010-2011.

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was voted the Daily Bruin’s most anal retentive staffer at the end of this year. I would be a bit offended, if the title didn’t so obviously suit me.

Part of my job is worrying about small things like headline space, whether to say “more” or “over,” where a certain paragraph should be placed and what a tweet should say. Language is slippery, and sometimes a few

words or a few sentences make the difference between getting a story right and getting it wrong.

A common criticism of my job – and others at the paper – is that it’s easy to get bogged down in these details during the grind of putting out a paper Monday through Friday.

The big picture can slip out of sight.

At the end of fall quarter, I took a step back and noticed a gap in the paper that I had missed for months. Simply put, our stories lacked soul. We

wrote about politics, academics and campus events, but we rarely wrote articles focused solely on people who lived quietly, yet with compassion, bravery and goodness.

Ironically, in obsessing over minutiae, I had forgotten about the beauty of small things, of small acts of human kindness.

Looking back, the stories I’ve written that stick out the most are those about people who are, in one sense, totally ordinary – their names don’t spark immediate recognition, and they haven’t cured cancer

or led a major sports team to victory. But in another sense, they are totally extraordinary.

I spoke with a Japanese literature professor, dying of a rare melanoma, who was determined to continue teaching an undergraduate class in the last weeks of his life. I interviewed another professor who had worked as a plumber to support his family, before quitting his job and pursuing his dream of teaching political science. I wrote about a UCLA staffer who runs a computing program geared toward

disabled students, while coping with the challenges his own blindness presents.

During our conversations, these people talked of principles that I’ve come to learn, one way or another, these past four years.

Find what you love and do it. It is OK to stumble, again and again. Listen to others, and speak honestly and openly to them in return. Give back.

Embrace uncertainty. Spend time with those you love, whether you have a few weeks left or many years.

It’s tough to describe what my time at the Daily Bruin has meant to me in a way that doesn’t gloss over the many, many moments of frustration and joy that occur day to day.

All I can say is: From staring at stories for hours on end, to taking naps on the A&E chair, to eating pizza after finishing the paper on election night, I savored the small stuff.

Lim was managing editor from 2012-2013, assistant opinion editor from 2011-2012 and a news reporter from 2009-2011.

The story is in, Grateful for, Smahl office it is yours to tell humbled by place has big impact DEVIN KELLY

numbers.

These stories are yours.

They’re not for me, or about ’m staring me. They’re for you. at a white I’m a journalist but board in I’m first and foremost a the Kerckhoff Hall conferstoryteller. I knew it at age ence room where I’ve spent 7, with absolute clarity, countless hours in Daily winning first prize in a Bruin budget meetings. young author’s competition Inside a sketch of a page, in Sacramento, Calif. someone has written four I pivoted into journalism words in brown dry erase at age 17, falling into the marker. rhythm and pace of local “This is your story.” news reporting, the profesIt is, isn’t it? sion already running in the At the Daily Bruin, we veins of my family. wrangle stories like unbroThat’s my story – here ken horses, piecing together at UCLA, it’s a desk at the quotes and facts Daily Bruin, and perspectives. it’s the hunt I’ve written for the perfect These them, assigned hamburger, it’s stories are yours. that one hike in them, edited them, produced the Pacific PaliThey’re not for them online. sades that takes me, or about me.

They are the your breath They’re for you. ones that really away. stick with you.

I’m a journalist but It’s 8-clapping Of basketball the football I’m first and fore- at players in Camergame until your most a storyteller. hands hurt. oon.

Of a schoolIt’s the quote teacher in Japan when the from a professor you’ll never tsunami hit. forget, about how you want Of a terminally ill profesto change the world, but it’s sor determined to continue the world that changes you. teaching.

It’s friends who tell you Of an adventurous math what you need to hear. student fighting with Libyan It’s having a dream, and rebels. waking up one day to realWe tell the small stories, ize it’s coming true. of a keyboard transported But I’m the journalist, on a skateboard to a resiand this is your story. It has dence hall lounge from an a beginning, a middle and attic in Schoenberg Hall. an end.

We tell the large ones, of Tell it with all your heart. multimillion dollar budget cuts to a university system Kelly was online managing trying to figure out how editor from 2012-2013, to slow the pace of tuition news editor from 2011-2012, hikes. assistant news editor in 2011 We seek out the humanand a news contributor from ity in studies, reports, 2010-2011.

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amn, we are some lucky people.

There was a brief moment this quarter when I was walking from the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden toward Kerckhoff Hall and everything got quiet and the sunlight was slanted a particular way and the breeze and, I don’t know, but the combination of everything seemed perfect. I experienced something I can only describe as “the feels.”

I think this moment was somehow poignant because lately I’ve felt a senior-year cynicism seeping into my attitude, preventing me from realizing how incredibly in love I am with this place.

This is where the Daily Bruin usually comes in to remind me.

I’m completely smitten with the idea that the physical paper is a mirror of the physical campus on any given day.

That a group of students converge in an intimate space to create a package that narrates the story of a small community on a daily basis, and the fact that this tangible package is only available on campus seems worth protecting as a particularly special way of preserving a place.

I think the staffers at the Daily Bruin understand this sense of place.

The walls of Kerckhoff 118 partition the office into honeycomb-like pockets of workspace, dividing each section of the newspaper – from the copy editors to the opinion columnists – into nooks of productivity.

Stacks of discarded reporters’ notebooks create piles in

the crannies of desks and scribbled-on pieces of paper litter the shelves in every corner.

The surfaces of the walls are plastered with “wall quotes” – typed transcriptions recording humorous tidbits of overheard conversations between staffers.

Even the ceiling supports a collection of front pages pinned up as a canopy above the heights of outdated computers and camera equipment.

This windowless office represents a place constructed through the paper trail of our storytelling.

More importantly, it has provided me with a place to make connections with some very special people.

Ramsey and Loic, I think I’m going to coin the term “collegiate soulmates” to describe you punks. I hope to be brewing beer and “Wagon Wheel”-ing with you for a long time to come.

Emma, thank you for redefining the English language with me (i.e. “tro”) and Liz, your scream-laugh is undeniably infectious, so thank you.

Alexa and Erika, I wouldn’t have wanted to work with anyone else this year. Thank you for making prime magazine everything I wanted it to be.

This last column is only a shy gesture of what my experience working for the paper has meant to me. If nothing more, the Daily Bruin has taught me that you just have to keep making things and treating people well.

This paper and this university have humbled me and for that I’m grateful.

Cody was prime magazine director from 2012-2013, assistant opinion editor from 2011-2012 and a columnist from 2010-2011.

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very dank, windowless office can use a little laughter to lighten the mood, and there are few things I enjoy more than making people laugh.

Being part of the Daily Bruin helped me realize that.

As the managing editor last year, I aimed to facilitate an environment of creative freedom. I strived to help maintain the paper’s history of integrity and excellence.

But above all, I wanted to ensure that the office was a place where people truly wanted to be.

It’s very easy to get lost in the bustle of the workday.

But when spending seven- to nine-hour intervals in an isolated, wall-facing cubicle, sorting through angry emails about faulty crossword solutions and telling disheartened staffers that their articles aren’t printable, you realize the importance of finding the humor in things.

I tried to lighten the mood whenever I could, starting spontaneous Styrofoam snowball fights, mandating Nutella club initiations, providing sardonic commentary at our daily content meetings and contributing many infamous quips to our wall of Post-it quotes.

And when people smiled, I smiled too.

I found the greatest happiness in that of my fellow staffers, relishing their achievements – both their awards and their growth as journalists and people.

Before ever stepping

foot on the UCLA campus, 18-year-old, newly admitted me was already set on joining the Daily Bruin and continuing my pursuit of photography.

Back then, I had no idea what joining the Daily Bruin would mean for me.

During my time as a Bruin, there was only one week that I wasn’t a part of the Daily Bruin staff – that’s how deeply ingrained my Daily Bruin experience has been in my college career.

The experience has been one of the greatest and most challenging experiences of my life.

I’ll never forget the excitement of my first photo in print, the primal shriek I let out at the Sheraton hotel in Chicago when prime magazine won its first Pacemaker award, the paralyzing fear as I watched Reeves Nelson chuck a basketball toward me through my viewfinder or the rush of racing down the Rose Bowl sidelines with my camera body and 300mm lens slung over my back.

Thank you to the editors that pushed and believed in me. Thank you to my photo mentees who made me more proud than I could have ever imagined. And thank you to a staff that put up with my yearlong, sub-par stand-up comedy routine.

Our adventures in the mysteriously-stained Kerckhoff 118 are memories I’ll never forget.

Smahl was prime magazine photo editor from 2012-2013, managing editor from 20112012, assistant photo editor from 2010-2011 and a photo contributor from 2009-2010.

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Stacks of newspapers are stacks of memories KYLIE REYNOLDS

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’ve left stacks of Daily Bruin papers throughout the country.

Some reside in my mom’s house in Ohio. Others are scattered in drawers at my grandparents’ home in Riverside, Calif. And a significant chunk sit in my Kelton apartment closet.

It’s true – I’m a pack rat. I have a penchant for holding onto trinkets, be it ticket stubs, birthday cards or brochures, which may or may not land me on “Hoarders” in the near future. But I had a reason for always making my routine pit stop at the Ackerman Student Union newsstand and grabbing fistfuls of Daily Bruins to take home.

These stacks are the tangibles of something intangible.

Past the lines of text about a North Village robbery or changing ROTC policies, I can

see my missed lectures. The events that affected my life, 10-page papers I wrote the even if momentarily. These night before they were due stacks represent my place at and the Kerckhoff baristas UCLA more than my grades, who brought me back to life in thesis or that degree I will the morning. The soon be holding relationships I let ever could. fade and the new Journalism can I picked up play that role, even ones that formed.

Between the the paper to hold for the journalists stories that tell who produce it. on to the days of the incredIn those times and nights I spent when I saw another ible people and change that writing and editing student grab an characterized issue of the Daily stories and the this campus in Bruin and then UCLA events that quickly stuff it in my four years affected my life. are my own their backpack, I tales: those could only hope I of the staffers and friends had just witnessed another who recognized that I have a person like myself who wants judgment face and still like to be able to look back and me despite it. The late-night remember something after it’s trips wandering campus. The over and done. chance at a career.

Well, a girl can dream.

And probably a significantly reduced lifespan.

Reynolds was enterprise I picked up the paper editor from 2012-2013, to hold on to the days and assistant news editor from nights I spent writing and 2011-2012 and a news reporter editing stories and the UCLA 2010-2011.

Dateline in transition SAM STRONG

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have to admit, it feels strange not to begin one of these things with a dateline.

It was always step one in the process. Sit down and write the name of the city you’re in. If I got nothing else right – and I got a lot of things wrong on these pages over the last four years – at least I had that part nailed down.

This is undoubtedly the most difficult column I’ve had to write because the truth is, as I sit here between internships and cities, I don’t even have that hurdle cleared. Like many of us in the class of 2013, I’m transitioning.

I spent my time as a student reporting and opining on UCLA athletics. I went as far east as New York City and as far south as Texas to do it. I made it to every Pac-12 institution, covered two conference championship games, one NCAA tournament (otherwise known as Ben Howland’s swan song) and two bowl games (Yes, that football team from our junior year made

history by going to a bowl game in spring quarter 2010, and I at 6-7 and laying an egg against received an email saying John an Illinois team that had not Wooden was in the hospital won a game in more than two and wouldn’t make it much months. Oh, that season ended longer. Never mind the final I in a coach being fired, too). had to study for – I had been on Those four years are over – the job for less than 24 hours better luck to you in the football and someone whose name was and basketball departments, synonymous with UCLA was class of 2017 – and suddenly I’m about to pass on. unsure of the next I was in over my step in my trajectory head. Graduating as a sports writer. staffers lent a hand, It was so I don’t know how studied or much more than nobody things will end up. slept and by Sunday, a first day. It was we had created 12 But I do know how it began. I was pages of original also a day that a freshman who had affirmed why I content that told recently been named Wooden’s story and wanted to be a sports editor at the honored the contriDaily Bruin. It was butions he made in journalist. an honor, for sure, sports and beyond. but something I viewed as more I did terribly on that final, but it of a gateway to reporting on the didn’t matter. The pride we all moneymaking sports than a way felt seeing someone reading the to serve the campus community. Wooden section far outweighed That changed in a hurry. the shame I felt from failing an They say the first day at any job exam. is the hardest and now I believe June 4 marked the three-year them, but it was so much more anniversary of Wooden’s passthan a first day. It was also a day ing. It was a somber time around that affirmed why I want to be a Westwood, but I’ll always look journalist. back on that weekend with great It was Thursday of 10th week fondness. It fueled the work I did at The Bruin for the next three years and without it, I may have been sane enough to listen to everyone who told me to ditch journalism.

I don’t plan to jump ship anytime soon and I know I’ll never forget the stories I wrote, mistakes I made or lessons I learned at this newspaper. I’ll cherish the friends, colleagues, athletes, coaches, sports information directors and readers I’ve interacted with over the last four years. It’s been an honor and a privilege, and whichever dateline I print next, I know I’ll be there because of the things I learned here.

Strong was sports senior staff from 2011-2013, sports editor from 2010-2011 and a sports contributor from 2009-2010.

Answers in the unknown ANNETA KONSTANTINIDES

I sang “Bootylicious,” underneath the Eiffel Tower’s midnight light show with a almost didn’t bottle of champagne or danccome to UCLA. ing under confetti in a club Though I in Ibiza, Spain. But somehad sent in my Statement where along the way in that of Intent in June, whenever summer of new adventures people asked whether I was I realized I needed to make going to transfer to UCLA the jump. or return to UC Davis in the That was the second most fall, I told them I still hadn’t important aha moment in decided. My friends staged my life. The first was when I an intervention at realized I wanted a Thai restaurant. to be a writer.

My parents asked That’s the That’s the me every single beauty of the aha day. beauty of the aha moment: When No one moment: when ... the metaphorical understood why light bulb goes off you’ve found some- in your head and someone who thing you didn’t wanted to be in you realize you’ve the entertainment know you were found something industry wasn’t you didn’t even searching for. jumping at the know you were chance to live in really searching the heart of it. And yet the for. For me, it was at the age idea of leaving the comfortof 16, finishing the last few able life I had created in the pages of “The Great Gatsby,” previous two years straight that I realized what I was terrified me. So I hopped on looking for – a voice to tell a plane for my study abroad stories. program in Cambridge, One of the main reasons England and figured I would I’ve always focused on arts find the answer there. and entertainment journalAnd I did. I couldn’t tell ism is because I love telling you exactly where I discovthose stories. The dancers, ered it: at that karaoke bar in directors, musicians and Edinburgh, Scotland where artists who wake up every

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day and live their aha moments, no matter how brutal rehearsal, a shoot or the bills were the day before.

A part of me was scared to leave Davis not only because of the life I would leave behind, but because of the life I knew I would be pursuing in the future. To commit to L.A. was to commit to the fact that I was going to be a writer – a journalist, a screenwriter, an author. I would ditch my half-hearted attempt at being an international relations student to live the dream I first had when I was 16.

Fast-forward two years from deciding to move to L.A. and I’m about to make an even bigger jump, off the cliff and into the dark twisted sea that is postgrad.

I have no idea if six months from now I’ll be working at a magazine or a movie studio, living in New York or on a boat in Portugal, telling other people’s stories or my own.

But no matter what, I’ll be writing.

Konstantinides was an assistant A&E editor from 2012-2013 and an A&E contributor from 2011-2012.

Magic, passion prevail ANGELICA LAI

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here’s something sad and magical about lasts – whether it’s the last page of a 300-page book, the last time your roommate lets you use the kitchen unsupervised or, as in my case, the last shift you have as a Daily Bruin copy editor.

While holding a freshly printed copy of a finished page to run the next morning, I realized that, after more than three years, it was the last time I would be in Kerckhoff 118 in the middle of the night trying to make deadline.

While I expected it to be a sense of relief, the feeling that found its way to the front of my mind had a hint of sadness to it.

I looked at the printed page before me, satisfied with the accuracy of the headlines, the clarity of the articles, the length of the photo captions, and I couldn’t help but feel that the page itself was a manifestation, an expression of everything that is the Daily Bruin. Flowing through its headlines, its texts and its photos

is the passion of talented students not only from this past academic year, but moreover from the accumulation of former staffers and the history they leave behind.

Often people would ask me what it is I did as a slot editor, and after hearing my long answers about editing and fact checking while heavily caffeinated and bloated from consuming a two-choice order from Panda Express, they would ask why, with my love for creating, did I not become a writer or a photographer or an illustrator instead?

I am not a writer or a photographer or an illustrator, but as a copy editor, I am able to access something rarer. I am able to come into contact with writers, photographers and illustrators, with every form of creation that finds a home on the page or the website.

A copy editor is in the most

basic sense “a silent guardian, a watchful protector” – from making sure you know the difference between “The squirrel Tom ate my lunch” and “The squirrel, Tom, ate my lunch” to double checking that sentences end with punctuation and not like Being a copy editor is nothing glamorous. In these last few years, I have yelled at inanimate objects after our server crashed, broken down when I tried taking a shift after a family loss and quit because giving up seemed like the only option. But through it all there was always someone yelling at inanimate objects with me, someone to give me a hug and tell me they will take over, someone welcoming me back with one arm outstretched and the other arm filled with snacks.

Looking at the printed page in my hands one last time, I knew that the papers to come tomorrow and the next month and the years after will have a similar undercurrent of passion and collaboration, a similar sense of magic distinct only to the Daily Bruin.

Lai was a slot editor from 2011-2013 and a copy editor from 2010-2011.

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Chance saved by dignity SERLI POLATOGLU

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hree years is an oddly indefinable period of time. Some days, my stint at UCLA seemed interminable.

Some days, it seemed all too transitory. And now, as I sit here typing up the text that will bear my very last byline in the Daily Bruin, I can’t help but realize that both sentiments, opposing as they may be, are incongruously true.

Three years ago, I walked through the daunting double doors at Kerckhoff Hall for my Daily Bruin interview, an anxious freshman with frizzy hair and a fervent hope.

Fingers crossed! I was going to be a reporter at a big-time college newspaper.

Of course, I tanked the interview. Things were going relatively well until thenopinion editor Neil Paik asked me the fateful question: “If you could ask Gene Block one thing, what would it be?” New to UCLA and generally ignorant, I had to uncomfortably admit that I didn’t know who Gene Block was.

Neil winced, and I cringed upon hearing that Block was none other than the chancellor of UCLA. I was mortified, and the interview ended shortly thereafter.

But I was determined not to let my chances die with my dignity. The next day, I marched back through those double doors and met a surprised Neil at the entrance.

“Your interview was yesterday,” he said, with a puzzled look on his face.

“I know, but I didn’t like how I answered the Gene Block question, so here’s a list of things I would ask him given the chance,” I replied, handing him a folded piece of paper on which my last hopes resided.

A week later, I walked through those double doors for what very well could have been the last time. I entered Student Media, nervously wondering if I’d leave as a member of the Daily Bruin team, or just a reader.

I jumped for joy, took a picture of my name under the heading of accepted applicants and did the typical freshman thing – called my mom.

Since then, I’m happy to report that I’ve been a news writer, opinion editor and staff columnist at the Bruin – and I’ve met with Chancellor Block on three separate occasions to interview him as a member of the editorial board. All three times, I was prepared with questions and a full foreknowledge of who he was.

I don’t know if Neil even remembers my interview. I doubt people will remember me at the Bruin in a few years.

The paper has always been something bigger than myself – than even the team that puts it together.

But, I know for certain that I will never forget the three sunless, carpal tunnel-inducing, Nutella-fueled years where I was sheltered behind those unassuming double doors.

Thank you, Daily Bruin, for everything.

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A bittersweet anthem JACOB RUFFMAN

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struggle to find a more difficult moment in my life than the one in the waiting room of the Daily Bruin on April 6, 2012.

I sat staring at my cell phone trying to cry but not having the ability to do so. I was numb. I was angry. I was embarrassed.

All I wanted to do was smash that phone into an unrecognizable pile of glass and plastic and microchips so I would never have to make the hardest phone call of my life.

I knew that breaking my phone wouldn’t change the outcome, so I just sat there working up the courage to break the news to my mother that I had not been selected for editor in chief.

My parents were the only ones who really knew how much the paper meant to me. They were there when I

Polatoglu was an opinion columnist from 2012-2013, opinion editor from 2011-2012 and a news reporter from 2010-2011.

made my college decision instead.” after walking out of the Daily A smile came across Bruin office for the first time my face; the irony was too as a senior in high school. perfect not to laugh.

They knew how much it Throughout my time as a killed me to do internships sports editor, I incessantly while I was the sports editor listened to that song at such because it meant that I a rate that a collective groan couldn’t spend every waking from the office was inevitable second I had inside that whenever the initial piano windowless cavern we call a solo started to play. newsroom.

That song was my anthem They were the for my entire ones I argued with year as an editor when I told them and it ended up The love that I wanted to personifying my be editor in chief that I felt for the relationship with despite it being a paper warped into the Bruin. poor career move pain ... but I grew The love that I for my aspirations felt for the paper and learned from and the people in sports journalthose experiism. in it warped into So I sat in that ences. pain and dejecwaiting room, tion, but I grew shaking unconand learned from trollably, as I hit the mobile those experiences more than number for my mother. She anything else in my life. And answered immediately and as I sit here now writing this before she could even say column, Adele’s words say it hello, I said, “I didn’t get it.” best: “Nothing compares, no There was a calm silence worries or cares. Regrets and before she started consoling mistakes they’re memories me and telling me how proud made. Who would have she was. All I could say back known how bittersweet this was, “I loved this paper so would taste?” much.”

It was at that moment Ruffman was sports senior when a line from Adele’s staff from 2012-2013, sports “Someone Like You” popped editor from 2011-2012, sports into my head. contributor from 2010-2011 “Sometimes it lasts in and video contributor from love, but sometimes it hurts 2009-2010.

The Bruin fosters support, traditions worth mirroring SONALI KOHLI

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CLA is a really big school.

But being a part of the Daily Bruin staff made it smaller.

UCLA became as small as the stories I taped to my closet door as a freshman news contributor, as compact as the Crimewatch maps I compiled, as friendly as the 40-person senior staff I edited with my

second year.

In the past four years, I’ve probably spent more cumulative hours in this small, dirty, windowless, wonderful Kerckhoff furnace than I have anywhere else on campus (including where I live, by the way).

The Bruin gave me some of my most triumphant college moments, crafting my best stories. On multiple occasions, it was also the place where I dealt with my most serious

failures.

Either way, this office is where muscle memory assumes I want to go after class – or before it, or during.

It provides all the sustenance I need – water, printing paper (shh, that one’s a secret), Band-Aids and a filthy couch to rest on. Even free food once in a while.

The paper is where I found many of my closest friends in college, the ones who listen to me rant about crime for hours,

who wander campus with me at 2 a.m. to find ghosts, who debate politics on the way to a tailgate, who sing with me at Brew Co. and understand that you don’t really know a person until you’ve Googled them.

The deadlines – with the help of some amazing English professors – are the reason I can write an A-worthy literary argument about Las Vegas in a few hours.

The first -30- column I read, three years ago, was

written by my news editor at the time. It was about Stripes Tuesday, a tradition she created with a friend – every Tuesday she wore stripes, and she had convinced much of the office, including me, to do the same.

If you’re a graduating senior, I hope you found something that made UCLA special for you, too. I hope you found a few families here, and that these have been the four most difficult, stressful and

memorable years of your life so far.

And if you’re not graduating, and you don’t relate to this yet, then good luck, and I hope you find and create traditions on this campus that continue for a very long time.

I, for one, will always wear stripes on Tuesday.

Kohli was news senior staff from 2011-2013, assistant news editor from 2010-2011 and a news reporter from 2009-2010.

A surprising duo: sports reporting, statistics studies RYAN MENEZES

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here isn’t an algorithm in this world that will piece together a proper work of journalism.

It took me some time to understand that when my career as an amateur reporter began. And when I did, I thought my interests sat on different ends of a spectrum, or at least on different halves of the UCLA campus.

The Daily Bruin helped me rethink my views. Soon enough, I was using the different lenses I had been

viewing the world through in tandem rather than separately.

Four years later, I’m grateful I felt that initial moment of panic, when I realized my notes and quotes couldn’t be plugged into a formula that would spit out a concise

summary of the swim meet I had to cover. That would have been too much like an exercise out of a weekly problem set, and who learns from those anyway?

My time here at UCLA consisted primarily of studying statistics in the classroom and penning dispatches

about the Bruins’ athletic endeavors. Math was always a passion, writing barely a hobby, but there was more in common between the two duties than I first imagined.

After I tapped into my creativity – however limited the supply – to tell stories, I took that same mentality to tackling questions posed by professors on the chalkboard and explored outside the

bounds of my classes.

I’m grateful the Daily Bruin The ideals of the scientific afforded me. Having a prodmethod written in textbooks uct where I could express my soon became the crux of thoughts was a great outlet. my identity as a reporter.

Most importantly, the office Games were a forum where in Kerckhoff Hall is home hypotheses could be tested to a diverse collection of and revised over the personalities that course of a season, challenge one stories and columns another to better After I were the reports of themselves. tapped into my the findings.

An interest in creativity ... to tell sports is what For all of my fascination with stories, I took the got me to join metrics, the newspaper same mentality to this immeasurable was but I leave more tackling questions curious about equally interesting. Emotions are posed by profes- the world at a vital element of large. Watching sors. any story, as hard sporting events as they might be to is a great release gauge.Standing in a locker from society, but few people room one night, I was talking have duties inside the arena to someone whose season after the buzzer sounds. was cut short after a painful Being more than just injury, expecting him to be a a spectator is fulfilling, little somber. Instead, he was especially in a field where smiling and optimistic while the numerically inclined are his teammate cried in the leading a revolution. background.

Sports statistics are My prediction was off – comprehensively tracked and plenty of them were – and I publicly available for all to suppose that’s why you need analyze, often hand-delivered to leave some room for error. to your cushy press box seat The one figure I lost track in a cleanly formatted box of was the distance I traveled. score.

One week it was a crossInstead of letting it come to country pilgrimage to Madime, I’ll be looking for data and son Square Garden; the next using everything I’ve learned it was a more taxing journey here to unearth the insights. to a treacherous location: the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Menezes was sports senior staff Arena. from 2011-2013, assistant sports That healthy travel budget editor from 2010-2011 and a is one of the many things sports reporter from 2009-2010.

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Journalism is full of friendly people, fond experiences ALEXIA BOYARSKY

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ometimes, I wish I was a cat.

Not only so I could sleep all day and shamelessly ignore people I don’t like, but also to have nine lives.

In one of my lifetimes, I’d follow my current path of selling my soul to law school debt. In another, I’d be a professional chef. But one, or even two lifetimes, would be reserved for

journalism.

At the end of the day, I don’t think anything else compares to the thrill of having an investigation to work on. The unexpected breakthroughs and the epiphanies you have while trying to fall asleep at night have made up some of my favorite moments at UCLA. But what I’ve come to realize is that journalism doesn’t have to be my profession to continue to be important in my life – and no, I am not advocating for overzealous blogging as an

alternative, so you can safely the facts yet. keep reading.

And mostly I’ve learned that The same lessons journalists are the that I’ve learned greatest people working for the you’ll ever meet, and The same paper I’ll use for the you should probably lessons that I’ve rest of my life. eat lunch at their I’ve mastered the learned working tables if only for the art of convincing great conversations. for the paper I’ll sources that it’s in I’ll forever be their best interest to use for the rest of grateful to these talk to me, even if it my life. friends for tackling appears otherwise. my preconceptions, I’ve learned how to step back for dealing with my stories that and try to find the big picture, regularly come in without a lede even when I may not have all of or an ending and for taking on

the world’s problems with me from the comfort of our couches.

It was these conversations that really solidified my resolve to be a lawyer – notwithstanding the frequent life crises that caused me to doubt it.

Both professions, when done well, aim for the same goals – to use a public forum to solve problems – and the world we’re entering has problems aplenty.

It so happens that I enjoy a good argument more than the next person, and this way I get to continue college for three

more years.

A part of me will always miss the deadlines and receiving crazy calls at 8 in the morning when another parking lot is evacuated because of a strange object – it’s always a lost backpack, guys – but you can’t have everything in life.

In the future, maybe I’ll come back to journalism, but in the meantime I’ll eagerly look out for some friendly bylines.

Boyarsky was a news reporter from 2010-2013.

Sports writing Overcome hurdles Journey really turns page to to fulfill passions is the best part new, different G opportunities B MARIA SIMPSON

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section in Kerckhoff 118.

It’s going to be hard to let it think that at all go. some point, Although I harbor lofty (and every senior need I say, improbable) hopes has an end-ofof becoming the next Sanjay college crisis.

Gupta, the reality is that I may Mine came while I was fillnever see my name in a byline ing out the activities section of again. my medical school application.

For four years, the Daily Daily Bruin Sports: assistant Bruin allowed me to call myself editor and senior staffer. That’s a writer. A sports writer. it? Four years of writing wraps Scribbling ledes on the back of on wraps on previews on wraps homework, dropping literally while spending countless everything to take that coach’s hours in the windowless timecall, knowing an unhealthy warp of Kerckhoff amount about 118 crammed onto UCLA gymnastics. one measly line?

Yeah, that’s me.

An infinite Was it really I was so excited worth it? It’s a ques- character limit ... when my first artition every burnedcle was published would not have out Daily Bruin in the paper. I went been enough to senior must have straight to the page asked themselves at explain how much and cut out the some point. While to save it. I the Daily Bruin has story leaving the office even Googled it and shaped me. at 3 a.m. last year, clicked on the link I may have angrily (I know, egotistical answered no. But me). My name was I still came back to Kerckhoff written, “Bansari Sheth.” Not the next day for production. the most auspicious beginning, And the next and the next. but it was a start either way.

An infinite character limit And now, I’m at the back on the application would not page of the metaphorical newshave been enough to explain paper that is my college career. how much the Daily Bruin But that’s a fitting place to be has shaped me. Of course, it because it’s really a beginning. all starts with the inspiring I always read the Daily Bruin journalists I have been able to starting with the sports page work with. anyway.

So many brilliant writers have rolled through the sports Sheth was sports senior staff corner of the office in my four from 2012-2013, assistant years here. I’m just honored sports editor from 2011-2012, a one of my stories made it onto sports reporter from 2010-2011 The Ceiling: that clutter of and a sports contributor from articles taped above the sports 2009-2010.

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glamour of Hollywood. Some of my favorite stories were of students at UCLA and the efore I was amazing feats they’ve accoma member plished. of the Daily I consider myself one of Bruin staff, I was the subject of the lucky ones because I’ve an article in the paper. sort of always known that I It was my first quarter at wanted to be an entertainment UCLA and I had just transreporter. Through my various ferred from my community internships in the entertaincollege in Rancho Cucamonga, ment industry, I have come to Calif. I got the crazy idea to discover that people who work participate in a statewide in entertainment are some of pageant to further my dream of the most driven individuals. becoming a television host.

The passion that they have for I competed in the Miss their craft is unparalleled.

California pageant with UCLA Also, truth be told, celebrity displayed proudly across my gossip has always been somesash. I spent all of what of a guilty fall quarter training pleasure. in Drake Stadium My experiences Buying a and avoiding interning for one-way ticket to the dining halls.

Gotham Casting, Despite my efforts, a place I’ve never ICM Partners, IMG I didn’t even make visited is a scary World and MTV it close to the top taught me that it is thought, but I’m 20. But when I possible to do what returned to school not worried. ... I you love and get that Monday, I saw am excited. paid for it. While my photo on the I don’t anticipate front page of the ever being a Daily Bruin. millionaire as a journalist, I Not all had been lost. know that I will make ends I later had the privilege of meet and I will find fulfillment joining the Daily Bruin as a in what I do. contributor for the Arts and This fall I will be furthering Entertainment section. Within my passion and my skills at my section I was given the either New York University or opportunity to attend press City University of New York, junkets, movie screenings studying broadcast journalism. and music festivals where I I’m a California girl, born wrote reviews and sometimes and raised. Buying a one-way interviewed famous actors and ticket to a place I’ve never directors. even visited before is a scary At one point I found myself thought, but I’m not worried. in a suite at the Four Seasons Rather, I am excited for this hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. new beginning. After all, eating hors d’oeuvre as I graduation is a time to close waited to interview action film the door on one chapter of your star Jason Statham. Simply life and open the door to a new put, I don’t know any other one. Mine just happens to be in profession that offers greater the Big Apple. perks.

But not everything I wrote Simpson was an A&E contribuabout involved the glitz and tor from 2012-2013.

ALEXANDRE JOHNSON

raduation is around the corner, and while it is a grand event full of accolades, it is also an ending. Endings, without fail, show us how successful we were in meeting our objectives and if we stayed on course.

Most students shoot for the finish, focused on a distant goal, without truly looking at the world around them. I often see my fellow students stress themselves out to achieve the perfect grade, participate in groups in order to build resumes and wear themselves out looking for the perfect internship in order to get their foot in the door for their future career.

I’ve done many of these things too, but looking back I see how fruitless this effort can be. What really matters at the end of any journey is how you affected the world and the character that you built during it.

As a Daily Bruin video reporter, I learned the importance of developing a complete story. In video storytelling, having a shot that establishes the setting is more important than the great or interesting shot that pours an emotional moment out onto the screen. It is these establishing shots, this base, that give the emotion meaning and purpose.

Before we all get our close-ups and moments to shine, we must establish

ourselves. With our future full of uncertainties, odds are that most of us will not end up with our plan B, much less our plan A. This does not mean we will end up in a bad place, just not the place we were aiming for.

Our goals will shift with time and I want to reassure everyone that is totally OK. This in fact reminds me of advice I received years ago.

Before I entered UCLA, a friend, borrowing from the long-established phrase, told me to focus on the journey, not the destination. I took note of this advice, but didn’t pay much attention to it as like most students I was focused on reaching my goals.

My experiences in Westwood have shown me that those words are a greater guide than I could have imagined.

During these college years I’ve joined many groups, met friends and gained knowledge from the most unexpected situations.

The instances when I have volunteered my time or had random conversations with people have come to shape who I am more than the ownership of a degree could have.

My advice for underclassmen remaining at UCLA is to remember that attending college is about the journey, not the degree. Take the age-old counsel to heart. Before you end your undergrad career, you need a strong establishing shot.

Johnson was a video reporter from 2012-2013.

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SUBMISSIONS

Graduating class today, Bruins forever GENE BLOCK

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s UCLA students, each of you arrived on campus with your own unique talents, background and ambitions. At the same time, you also shared some important qualities with your fellow students – a thirst to excel, a knack for leadership and a commitment to making the world around you a better place.

One of the most rewarding aspects of my job as chancellor is seeing all of

those attributes meld together to form a community of scholars, friends and future leaders that is unlike any other. Now, as we prepare to celebrate commencement, I am delighted to be among the first to congratulate the Class of 2013.

To be sure, each of you is still uniquely “you.” But for the rest of your lives, you will share one important characteristic with your fellow graduates: You are Bruins.

During your time at UCLA, you have met – and often exceeded – lofty expectations, and not just through your outstanding academic work.

Your growth as researchers,

artists, athletes, volunteers, entrepreneurs, mentors and citizens has been truly impressive, and you have left an indelible mark on our campus.

You also have made lasting contributions to people’s lives throughout Los Angeles and the world. Serving others has long been a hallmark of UCLA students; it also is a defining attribute of our alumni. In whatever career you choose, and wherever life takes you, I encourage you to continue making a difference in your community.

In earning a UCLA degree, you have proven that you are capable of thriving in any

competitive environment, even if it means juggling numerous responsibilities and overcoming serious obstacles.

You have explored and, in many cases, created new areas of knowledge. You have learned from faculty who are the best in the world in their fields of study – experience that will prepare you well for the next chapter in your life.

In collaborating with fellow students, you have learned from their insights and gained invaluable understanding from worldviews that are different from your own.

Your fellow graduates undoubtedly will join you in becoming leaders in your

careers and communities.

Just as importantly, many of them will remain close friends and trusted colleagues. Your shared experiences at UCLA have given you a special bond with one another, one that I hope will enrich your lives for many years.

I urge you not only to cultivate those connections with your classmates, but also to stay engaged with our campus and future Bruins who one day will benefit from your experience. Join us in ensuring that they enjoy the same opportunities that you have had as UCLA students.

I also hope that you will look to UCLA as a resource.

As a Bruin for life, you can take advantage of the many opportunities that our campus offers to build personal relationships, expand professional networks and further intellectual pursuits. You always have a home at UCLA. Most of all, sincere congratulations on earning your UCLA degree and conquering each of the challenges along the way to this proud moment.

Take time to celebrate your accomplishment with your fellow graduates, friends and family. May this be the beginning of so much more for you and the UCLA Class of 2013.

Block is the chancellor of UCLA.

Past successes serve as foundation for future endeavors DAVID BOCARSLY

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hen looking at history, we can see the power of the student voice, and how it is harnessed in the Undergraduate Students Association Council.

We look to the Freedom Riders of the 1960s as an example of UCLA students being heard on a national level. Or the movement to divest from South African apartheid in the 1980s as an example of Bruins’ voices being heard on a global level.

And then we look to the modern day and realize we need to continue to be activists for issues of our time, issues closer to home.

At the start of this year, we saw a lack of priority for higher education becoming a theme on a statewide level. We had recently instituted holistic admissions, Pauley Pavillion was reopening and the UC Board of Regents had just rejected a tuition increase for the first time ever.

I looked to what this council could do. At our installation, I challenged us to harness the political excitement around the presidential election to empower students to actively fight for affordability, to utilize Pauley’s reopening and other prideful accomplishments to increase alumni relations and to learn from the recent acts of intoler-

ance to promote diversity on campus.

And now I get the privilege to reflect on this year and realize how incredibly successful we were.

We registered a record 6,234 students for the presidential election, brought Gov. Jerry Brown to campus and helped pass Proposition 30 in surprising fashion, giving $375 million back to the University of Cal i for n ia and freezing tuition.

We c h a n nel led the increase i n Br u i n pride

to increased alumni giving.

Because of this, we were able to start the first fund for alumni to donate directly back to students – a student leadership fund and a textbook scholarship fund.

We took hu ge str ides to proactively minimize acts of i ntoler a nce w it h ou r

participation in the UC campus climate survey, the largest ever of its kind, which will greatly increase our ability to address campus issues. We addressed attacks on our holistic admissions head-on, protecting our diverse population. And we culminated this work with our first Diversity Symposium, where

we featu red more tha n 70 programs from more than 50 groups across campus.

But it d id n’t stop there.

We made huge strides w ith financial stability, creating a $100,000 endowment and passing the Bruin Bash referendum.

We increased USAC efficiency by completely revamping our bylaws and fixing problems with election code. We put on relief programs like “Bruins for Boston” and our students ran a campaign that successfully repealed the use of a new UC logo.

When we gathered

w ith more tha n 60 for mer student body presidents, we learned about how the student voice can always be stronger.

And that’s where next year’s council comes in. I am very proud of all the work this year’s council has done. But clearly, none of this work isfinished.

Next year we will see the arrival of a new UC president who will have a lot to learn in this complicated system. We will be faced with the aftereffects of Proposition 30, and the financial struggles that come along with it. The results of the UC campus climate survey will be released and we must dictate how to respond to them. And, of course, so many new, unforeseen challenges will arise along the way. And as one of the most prestigious universities in the nation, UCLA will be looked at to guide this country through these challenges.

Bruins, you will have the opportunity to make positive changes for our generation. Be active on issues you care about, but never forget the successes your predecessors have made.

Use those successes as stepping stones for the even greater change I know you are capable of.

Thank you for letting me serve you this year. I’m looking forward to seeing all you can do!

Bocarsly was USAC president from 2012-2013.

Crucial for students to think critically, independently S. SCOTT BARTCHY

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have regarded my time at UCLA a great privilege, both because of the high intellectual quality of the students who have chosen to take my courses and because of the stimulation from serving with such extraordinary scholars in the department of history and other departments on campus.

I have been honored by invitations to work with colleagues in seven different departments to mentor the research of their graduate students, as well as my own in the history department.

So I am retiring with strongly mixed feelings. I love

teaching. If I were independently wealthy, no one would have needed to pay me to teach (grading is a different story!).

The vibrant cross-disciplinary intellectual life at UCLA has benefited me enormously during my 33 years of association with this great university, first as a guest professor in 1981, when I was still teaching at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, and then when I was invited to become a fulltime faculty member at UCLA and began teaching a full course load in 1988.

I have happily done so every year since.

One change that I’ve noticed during the last 15 years in particular is that many students are coming to UCLA with less confidence in

their ability to think critically than seemed to be the case earlier. Is this a consequence of the emphasis on “teaching to the test,” one of the unfortunate features of the No Child Left Behind Act? In any case, I’ve especially needed to challenge my students to think for themselves even when writing their exams, rather than seeking simply to echo what they’ve heard from me.

I’m grateful that UCLA allowed me to pioneer in the field of the study of religion in general and the beginnings of Christianity in particular.

Along with colleagues in five other departments, I co-founded UCLA’s Center for the Study of Religion in 1995, and then served as the CSR’s director for 14 years. In that

role I welcomed to our campus distinguished scholars from around the globe whose research focused on helping us understand why religions are powerful, pervasive and sometimes dangerous.

The cultural phenomena that we identify as religion have inspired many of the finest, most compassionate actions and high-level art and music that human beings have created. Likewise, some (but not all) of the most horrible things that human beings have done to each other have been committed in the name of religion.

What is clear is that, whatever one believes personally, not understanding both aspects of the effects of religion leaves anyone dangerously in the dark regarding

what has happened and what is now happening in the world.

My privilege and my mission at UCLA has been to seek to overcome this ignorance and to inspire my students to think critically about the strengths and weaknesses of any religious tradition in its history.

In my own research, I have been especially interested in the social, economic, political and psychological consequences of any belief system, whether religious or ideological. So at this point in my life, I am trying to finish a book about the challenge the early Christian movement brought to the dominant cultural values for gendering boys and girls into honorable men and women in the early Roman Empire. It turns out that an in-depth understanding of

this history practically leaps off the page with its immediate relevance to issues about gendering that all cultures in the world face today.

Because of my intense involvement with students, it has been difficult for me to block out the time needed to finish this book. So, while I will profoundly miss my interactions with UCLA students, I do look forward to the quiet days in my home office when I can think and write for sustained periods. Then on to the next book.

Be well! Auf wiedersehen!

Bartchy is a professor of Christian origins and the history of religion, and a co-founder and former director of the Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA. He will be retiring in July.

Embracing the inevitable fear that comes with challenges JASON SMITH

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came to a roadblock after five great years here at UCLA. I met many people – few of them were real and kept it real. I studied abroad thrice, produced tangible changes on this campus and developed in ways that were unbeknownst to any wayward kid from Richmond, Calif.

I did phenomenal work and even though people doubted me, I am not upset because I also psyched myself out when I should not have.

We truly are cruel to ourselves and we need more

self-love, myself included.

In fact, I had to take a tai chi class to snap out of my self-destructive fears. Dance 10 with Jason Tsou and Arthur Schoenfeld was the bane of my existence, a thorn in my toe that was wedged deep and I could not get rid of. This was the last class required for me to graduate and I thought it would be easy but that changed after three weeks.

As much as I wanted to, I could not escape this class or my frustrations with not being able to memorize the tai chi movements and principles to perform efficiently, get an A grade in tai chi and graduate on time.

I tried to come up with excuses that held me back

from truly understanding what this art/dance form was teaching me and, while I initially tried to run away from my fears, I realized that I had to tackle them directly.

Recently, I took my tai chi final and I was sweating raindrops trying to figure out which move came after the next. I had to take many deep breaths, focused and with the help of my instructors and peers cheering me on, I got through it. I cried afterward because I was frustrated with how I did not do my best this quarter – my last quarter.

I was upset with not fully engaging with one of my last classes in my department – World Arts and Cultures/ Dance – and an important one at that because it is the only

class I need to graduate.

And when I thought a “simple” two-unit, dance requirement was in my way of graduating, I had an epiphany.

I snapped into another realm of consciousness.

This whole time I was driving myself insane because I did not want to work through repressed pains associated with being a vilified Black/ Afrikan gay male, in America, and I got to the end of my journey, and realized I was no longer strong enough to harbor these emotions of fear and needed to make a change for the better. Life is going to be hard for me and I needed this class to reassure this idea; not to scare me but to toughen my spirits and give me a reason to get out of bed

in the morning.

The answer was right in my face this whole time.

Tai chi taught me how to circulate air through my body, find my center, and divert and direct energy. I had learned these practices through other outlets, but was astounded to find that this class enlightened me in nuanced ways.

I imagine this feeling being similar to untying a bow on a beautifully wrapped present to get to the wonders inside.

This time, instead of ripping through the gift-wrapping, I want to take my time and bask.

We have to step out of our comfort zone in order to recognize and embrace a new perspective – I am acknowledging this now.

Fear is an incredible energy supply, especially when you are overwhelmed with life’s obstacles. When applied correctly, the energy from your fear can be utilized to produce meaningful changes for you. Ultimately, we need to aspire to reach a place of paradise where we can confront our fears, acknowledge its existence and find a time to move on from them or make them work to our benefit.

Fear drove me to apply to graduate school and fear is getting me out of this university. I am entering the world afraid and I am not ashamed of it either.

Smith is a graduating fifth-year world arts and cultures student.

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