I flip through the book, page after page. The coarse, off-white paper lightly scratches the pads of my fingertips. The earthy smell of the ink wafts up to my nose. As my eyes scan the words, I imagine the scene folding out in front of me. There’s something exhilarating about making my way through a…
Ring! Ring! Ring! As fast as I could, I raced my way across the soccer field to be the first in line for my fifth grade class before the teacher led us back into the dull, eraser-scented, fluorescently lit classroom. As I swayed from side to side, waiting for what seemed like forever in the…
When coming from a high school that doesn’t have many cultural clubs for minorities, it can make finding a place in college very nerve wracking for many students. It’s a new environment filled with thousands of people you don’t know. Many want to find groups like themselves not only personality-wise, but culturally and racially, as…
Q: What is their story? UCLA alumni Mar Dumlao and Bernadette “Bernie” Bernardo have recently come out with their new gallery, the LA Art Box. The pair originally met at UCLA during Bernie’s sophomore year, and from then on, they began to make their mark on the world. Bernardo was a student at UCLA’s Department…