Pacific Ties stands in solidarity with the Palestine Solidarity Encampment (PSE) and encampments at other universities. We condemn the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
On Tuesday, October 17th, Dr. Craig Santos Perez, a professor of English at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa and prolific poet and essayist, held a poetry reading in UCLA’s Kaplan Hall.
The life cycle of a single plate of food is fairly short. Conceived of ingredients brought together from a grocery store, a dish lives a quick life in the time it takes to migrate from kitchen to table, only to disappear quietly in the shuffle of forks and…
“’The phantom Yellow Peril,’ said Nayland Smith, ‘to-day materializes under the very eyes of the Western world.’” Sax Rohmer, 1913 Mirroring the words of Nayland Smith, the infamous Dr. Fu Manchu first materialized on paper in Sax Rohmer’s book “The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu” (1913). I heard about…
Check out some cultural traditions important to some members of the Pacific Ties staff, and how we manage to keep in touch with our roots at UCLA.