Shohei Ohtani, widely regarded as the face of baseball in America, has the world talking once again after signing a historic $700 million contract. Ohtani’s groundbreaking career and contract goes beyond baseball for the Asian and Asian American community. For many aspiring athletes of Asian descent, Ohtani’s presence in professional sports resists long-standing stereotypes and serves as a testament that everyone has the ability to make it big.
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.
Asian Pacific Health Corps (APHC) was founded in 1980 at UCLA as an organization dedicated to providing hypertension screening for the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) population in the greater Los Angeles area. Throughout the 41 years of its operation, APHC has expanded greatly in size and methodology…
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.…