Anthony Pesce

That’s right. As of last night our undergraduate student government voted overwhelmingly to place a referendum on the UCLA May ballot that would provide my department between $200,000 and $230,000 in student fee revenue per year. The students still have to vote to pass it, but I think it stands a very good chance. We’re [...]

What conceivable security risk could have been in a portrait? UCLA has its own co-generation power plant. … That was the problem. The plant was visible. Apparently UCLA doesn’t allow anyone to publish pictures of power plant equipment (including the outside of the building), because if someone were to attack the university it would be an obvious target.

Last night we had an interesting meeting in the Daily Bruin newsroom about our election night coverage. I’m pretty excited because for the first time ever (now that I’m totally in charge) we’re going to be localizing our content. As News Editor, and now as Editor in Chief, I’ve had to battle an institutional attitude [...]

Today I took a drastic and unprecedented action while I was procrastinating at the Daily Bruin: I deleted my Myspace account. I know, shocking, but it’s a growing trend among many of my friends and associates here at UCLA. The bottom line is that that particular social network is just no longer relevant to my [...]

So I’ve had this blog for like three seconds and I’m already psyching myself out about writing in it. I periodically get ideas about posts that would be good, but I’m busy at the time and never write them and then all of a sudden the ideas aren’t timely any more and then I don’t [...]

Over the past few months the Daily Bruin has gotten several emails from other college newspapers about either our current project, or in general about working with us on a website. We’re still working on getting our project site up… but if anyone out there is curious just email me and let me know. We [...]