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.

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted here. I have a final tomorrow I should be studying for, so of course I find myself doing everything possible to avoid thinking about it – like cleaning my room, organizing my RSS reader, and updating this blog. A lot has happened to me and the Bruin since my [...]

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 [...]

I am officially the new Editor in Chief of the UCLA Daily Bruin. As editor, my first official interaction with a member of the public was to tell a person that we could not remove her quote from our online archive. The Bruin gets an astonishing number of these requests – two to three per [...]

I was just in Vegas for the Interactive Media Conference, accepting an award from the Knight Foundation with my friend and colleague Dharmishta Rood. We recently won a $275,000 grant from the Knight News Challenge to develop an open source content management system for college newspapers. We’re calling the project the Community News Network, and [...]