Ask an Asian American Student Leader: Ruhi Patil
USAC Financial Supports Commissioner Ruhi Patel talks about working on the lab coat loaner library, Bruins United, student financial literacy, and more
Sean Choi: Service in the South Korean Military
One year and nine months or 21 months. If you are a man born in South Korea, you need to join the Korean army for 21 months. Whenever I hear about missile attack from North Korea, I realize that Korea is still at war. The Korean Peninsula is divided into two halves with the dividing…
Ask An Asian American Student Leader: Amy Shao
Amy Shao is the current Cultural Affairs Commissioner. She is a third year political science major from Hamburg, Pennsylvania who enjoys running in her free time. Her boba drink of choice is passion fruit peach black tea. How did you get involved with USAC? My first year, I applied for the Cultural Affairs Commission internship.…
Q&A: Margaret Cho Embraces Anger in ‘psyCHO’ Tour
Margaret Cho’s upcoming comedy tour, “There’s no I in Team, but There is a Cho in Psycho,” focuses on her belief that it is OK to be angry about social injustices like racism and rape culture, and it is OK to talk about it in an unapologetic way.
Forced Warriors: Singapore’s Conscription Policy
Singaporean-born first-year student, Malcolm Au, was forced to withdraw from UCLA for the next two years in order to serve for the Singaporean army. He will be spending the next two years serving in the Singaporean army with the hope that he will return to UCLA when he is finished.
Tracy Nguyen, ACA Hip-Hop Dancer, Dies at 18
Tracy Nguyen, a second-generation Vietnamese American and rising second-year business economics student at UCLA, passed away on August 1 while attending the HARD Summer Music Festival. At around 4:45 PM, Nguyen went into a seizure and was rushed to the San Dimas Community Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. She was 19 years old.