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Chess champ checks into UCLA

BY YANCEY CASHELLBruin [email protected]

Luke Harmon-Vel lott i is used to being the youngest person in the room.

The 14-year-old mastered h is t imes tables before he could see over the kitchen counter and was beating his dad in chess by the time he was 9 and a three-time nation-al champion.

Lu ke, now a nat iona l ly ranked chess player, will enter UCLA as a f i rst-year com-puter science and mathemat-ics student this fall alongside his 18-year-old brother Carl Harmon-Vellotti, an incoming first-year bioengineering stu-dent.

A passion for chess runs in the family. Daniel Vellotti, the boys’ father, has been playing chess since he was 9 and was also an esteemed chess player.

Luke said his father started teaching him chess when he was just 4 years old. He has been playing ever since.

Luke’s parents would play games such as “chess Monop-oly” where they would play both at the same time, and use things l ike puppets to keep Luke engaged and interested as a young kid, something they also did with his older brother Carl, Vellotti said.

Luke started competing in tournaments when he was only 6 years old, and became a chess expert by the time he was 10. He became a World

Chess Federation master at the age of 13. Now, he has the current ranking of an interna-tional master.

He recalls his favorite game as one where he was losing, his opponent had an extra knight and just as the player finished his 40th move – giving him 30 extra minutes – he made an error that allowed Luke to checkmate him and win.

The oldest person Luke has ever competed against? He was 75.

After playing in competitions since he was 6, Luke Harmon-Vellotti now enters Westwood as a student

COURTESY OF LUKE HARMON-VELLOTTI

Luke Harmon-Vellotti, a 14-year-old chess champion, plans to study computer science and mathematics at UCLA in the fall. Harmon-Vellotti has been playing chess with his father since he was a young child and became a World Chess Federation master last year.

Freshman reaffirms job in medical field

BY JENNIFER CRANEBruin [email protected]

While her fr iends were going to cheer practice and preparing for their SATs, Miles Reyes was not even sure if she was going to live past gradu-ation.

As a 16-year-old high school junior in Las Vegas, Reyes learned she had Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer of

the lymphatic system. Now, an incoming first-

year biochemistry student at UCLA, Reyes has been in remission for a year and a half. She said her experience battling the life-threatening illness reaffirmed her goal of becoming a doctor.

She is set on using her eventual UCLA degree to give back to the community that

Miles Reyes’ battle with cancer in high school motivates her to become a doctor, help others

COURTESY OF MILES REYES

Miles Reyes graduated from high school in spring after undergoing treatments for cancer. She plans to study biochemistry in the fall.

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Her 10-year-old grandson prays every night that someday, he will be able to attend UCLA. His inspiration is his 54-year-old grandmother, Hazel Reed.

Reed, a third-year Afro-American stud-ies student, decided she would continue her education at the age of 50, after a year of bed rest. The constant pain and limited mobility that ensued from spinal and joint problems were secondary to her goal of becoming a lawyer.

“I want to help first-time offenders, young mothers and the marginalized com-munity at large,” Reed said. “The law degree in itself will give me another tool to help them (with) the legal challenges that they may face.”

Despite her passion for education, Reed said studying is not easy. She said the far-thest she can walk is from Charles E. Young Research Library to Campbell Hall because of several medical conditions.

The 15 medications she takes for back problems, such as degenerative disc disease, also affect her short-term memory and cog-nitive skills to some degree, Reed said.

“I know that it might take me two or three times longer (to learn) than someone who is younger and someone who is not taking the medication that I’m taking,” she said.

She said she takes less medication even if she has to cope with more pain, so the drugs don’t interfere with her studies.

Reed enrolled in Long Beach City College at 17, after graduating from high school. A year later, she became a single parent.

She said working part time while attend-

ing classes was not enough to give her daughter, Rashida Harrison, the life she deserved, so Reed withdrew from her class-es and decided to work full time.

To provide Harrison – whose childhood dream was to become an actress – with a private school education and acting classes, Reed strived for higher positions at work, her daughter said.

Reed started off working full time at a telephone company, answering phone calls at customer service. Later, she was pro-moted to a quality assurance manager and trained other customer service employees.

Harrison said her mother considered her daughter’s academic performance as the utmost priority. The day she got two B’s in sixth grade was the last day she received a B, Harrison said.

“My mom told me, ‘You have the brains. There is no reason for you not to do well,’” she said.

Almost 40 years after graduating from high school, Reed decided to continue her education in pursuit of a joint J.D. and M.A. degree – a tool she said is crucial to estab-lishing a resource center that helps mem-bers of marginalized communities.

After taking a combination of online and hybrid classes from Riverside Community College District, she received two associate degrees in 2012. The same summer, she transferred to UCLA with a full scholarship.

Reed said her decision to study law and interest in pro bono legal representation partially come from her witnessing minori-ties’ limited access to legal representation.

About 12 years ago, someone she was close to was sentenced to 45 years of impris-onment after shooting someone during a fight. He was 17 when he was sentenced.

“The judge said he was a menace to soci-ety and gave him 45 years,” she said. “He is (in jail) right now because there was no (legal) representation.”

Although she is not justifying his act, the gravity of the punishment was unfit for the crime, Reed said. Given that he had not killed anybody and was only a 17-year-old with no prior criminal records, 45 years in adult prison was too harsh, she added.

She said she thinks undergraduate edu-cation in African-American and Chicano studies has provided her with the back-ground knowledge of the legal difficulties that minorities face.

“The system is not really set up for most of marginalized community to succeed – educationally and occupationally,” Reed said. “For me to make the best difference, I have to be educated especially on this level.”

Reed’s high regard for education is some-thing she has passed on to her husband, Luis Reed.

“She’s real sneaky. She made me carry her books to class (at community college),” said Reed, who studies business at West Los Angeles College.

Reed enrolled in the community college after learning he could not renew his license as a Class A truck driver because of health problems.

“My wife is my hero. I’m not a scholar like she is, but I decided that I could at least accomplish something,” he said.

Hazel Reed’s professor, Robert Romero, said despite her physical challenges, Reed is a hard-working, attentive student.

“It’s obvious she cares about being a good student,” he said. “She works hard at under-standing the material.”

Reed said she does not intend to let her physical challenge stand in the way of her goal.

“I finally feel like I am at an arena where I belonged all along,” Reed said.

Hazel Reed refuses to let her age or medical condition stop her from achieving her goal of doing pro bono legal work for minorities

Student regent talks on upcoming plans

The student regent rep-resents all 230,000 students in the University of Califor-nia system on the UC Board of Regents. The 26-person group governs the Univer-sity, decides how to spend its money, sets tuition levels and makes other important deci-sions that affect the UC.

Student regents are the sole student voice on the UC Board of Regents. They are selected through an applica-tion process and serve a one-year term.

This year’s student regent is UC Irvine law student and UCLA alumna Cinthia Flores. The Daily Bruin’s Kristen Taketa asked her how she plans to serve as the student regent, what her goals are for the upcoming year and what new students should know about the UC regents.

Daily Bruin: What will be the most important issue affecting students in the next year?

Cinthia Flores: I think the University is in a unique position. For the first time, we’re not expecting (tuition increases), at least at the undergraduate level, for 2013-

2014. ... One of the primary issues that has impacted student lives, which is student fee increases, is still going to be a very important issue, but it’s not going to (dominate) the conversations this upcoming year. That is going to provide students with the opportunity to be on the offense.

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Budget cuts aside, improving UC diversity and campus climate is a growing concern

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Cinthia Flores, a UCLA alumna and UC Irvine law student, is this year’s student regent.


During the summer, Luke typically practices chess four to five hours a day by playing people online and by complet-ing chess puzzles.

He said that part of playing chess is learning how to adapt to your opponent. Though there are theories on the best moves to make for the f irst few turns of the match, chess games vary widely as they play out, and you have to adapt to your opponent quickly.

The brothers also help at their father’s chess school, the Vellotti’s Chess School, when they aren’t at a tournament competing.

“(Luke and Carl) are hugely valuable to the Vellotti’s Chess School because they have caught on to the spirit of how to work with children,” Vellotti said.

Carl Harmon-Vellotti said he and Luke are close friends, but it took time for him to get used to having his younger brother be in the same classes as him at school.

Luke started high school curriculum when he was just 8 years old and caught up to his brother’s curriculum when he was 10 years old.

“Once we started taking classes together, I wasn’t really

sure how it was going to work,” Carl Harmon-Vellotti said. “But because of things like chess we have always been able to work together.”

The brothers decided to go to UCLA as a joint decision, Harmon-Vellotti said.

“We have taken a lot of classes together in high school so it made sense for us to go to school together,” he said.

The move to Los Angeles will be a Vellotti family affair. Their parents plan to relocate to Los Angeles from Boise, Idaho.

The brothers plan to com-mute to campus from their new home.

Luke sa id he appl ied to many of the same schools as his brother, and that when he was the recipient of the Stamps Fami ly Char itable Foundation Scholarship they dec ided UCL A w a s t he i r school of choice. Each year, UCLA nominates five out-of-state students and five in-state students to receive the schol-arship.

Luke said that he hopes to revitalize the chess team at UCLA and wants the team to compete in the Pan-American Intercollegiate Chess Champi-onships. Carl Harmon-Vellotti plans on joining his brother on the chess team.

Luke and his brother will also continue to compete out-side the collegiate chess arena even with the new challenges they will face juggling their college school workload.

Their parents also are join-ing in on expanding the game across the city.

The parents said they have already reached out to the Los Angeles Unified School Dis-trict and asked to have their chess program expanded in Los Angeles.

The Vellotti parents also hope to eventually teach chess classes at UCLA, they said.

Though the family is mov-ing to Los Angeles together, it’s still difficult for the parents to let their kids go.

“It’s hard because it’s a big change and you miss them, but they need to get out of the nest and they need to fly,” Vellotti said. “If you keep them back

longer they wouldn’t be happy, and I know they really have a good opportunity (at UCLA).”

Though the brothers are starting college in the fall, and things are changing in the Vel-lotti house, they will still all have something to keep them connected: chess.

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helped her survive by becoming a doctor and also doing medical research.

“I love how dedicated (the doctors) are, they take personal time to help one single person. I want to give back to that com-munity,” Reyes said.

In 2011 and 2012, Reyes was confined to her bed for five months. Chemotherapy and radiation treatments took the place of choir practice and cheer meets.

“I felt out of place and I didn’t know what to do with all the time that I had. It was a com-plete change; I was lost and I was pretty depressed,” she said.

During Reyes’ cancer treat-ment, she lost her h a i r a nd ga i ned weight f rom tak-ing steroids. She underwent surgery, received three shots a week and took eight pi l ls a day, Reyes said.

W h i l e g o i n g through treatment, Reyes started ques-tioning her outlook on life, she said.

“Is this how I want to spend the last days of my life, moping around?” Reyes remem-bers asking herself. “Or do I want to be hopeful and think what will happen in my life after this?”

To keep on track for gradu-ation, Reyes had to take online summer school courses. Even after returning to school, she couldn’t walk across her high school campus without being out of breath.

“ I w a s f r u st rated w it h myself,” Reyes said. “It is some-thing simple, but I couldn’t do it.”

Watching her daughter suf-fer took a toll on Louves Reyes, Miles’ mother.

“It is the worst experience I have ever had. It was heart-breaking,” Reyes said.

Reyes said she thinks finding out one’s child has cancer is one of the hardest things a parent can go through.

“When I see her suffering I don’t want to be away from her,” she said through tears.

Miles Reyes said she thinks her cancer treatments made her a stronger person, even though they were painful.

“It has made me more of an optimistic, driven person. I

already know what it is like to be at my very lowest and feel isolated,” she said. “I don’t ever want to be at that place again.”

Reyes received support from her friends while in treatment, she said.

“Her cancer made our rela-tionship stronger,” said Brittany Lam, a friend of Reyes who will also be attending UCLA in the fall as a first-year biology stu-dent.

Reyes and Lam would go out to eat, watch movies and just spend time with each other dur-ing those days when Reyes had breaks between treatments, Lam said.

Reyes’ parents could not afford psychological therapy for her while she underwent treat-

ment, so the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation, located in Las Vegas, pro-vided her with free therapy for seven months.

The foundation tutored Reyes in subjects she needed help with after miss-ing so much school, she said.

To g ive back , Reyes started vol-

unteering for the foundation a month after her last cancer treatment. She continues to volunteer once every month to help plan events and give inspi-rational talks to cancer patients.

Reyes said she was shocked when she found out she was accepted to UCLA and received multiple scholarships to attend.

Reyes said she has always wanted to be a doctor and plans to pursue medical school.

“The treatment showed me how much I enjoy the presence of doctors and nurses,” Reyes said. “I love that environment.”

Her cancer can still come back, so Reyes has to receive checkups and body scans every three months.

She also has scars left from her cancer treatment – one on her ribcage, three on her back and one on her collarbone.

After going through f ive months of painful treatment and receiving scars that probably will never heal, Reyes said she is looking forward to attending UCLA in the fall.

“I don’t know what to expect at UCLA. I hear college is great,” Reyes said. “I am excited to be there and just live my life.”

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Students haven’t been on the offense for a very long time because we’ve been reacting to budget cuts, and fee increases, and cuts to higher education overall. And so I think that this is actually a time for students to really take advantage of people like myself and request that we work on issues that they care about, not issues that we’re reacting to.

One of the biggest things that we’re actually concerned

about is UC diversity and campus climate issues. I am a student at UC Irvine and just this past quarter we had two very egregious incidents where a community at UC Irvine was explicitly attacked. I think that ... signals we’re still not in a place at the University of California where we can really appreciate and understand the interconnectedness and the value of diverse students at the University.

DB : T he UC Boa rd of Regents just appointed the next president of the UC, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. Some students are not happy with the choice because of Napolitano’s past

immigration policies, and you voted against her appointment because of these students’ con-cerns. Now that she is officially appointed, however, what do you hope to see in her leader-ship as the next UC president?

CF: She’s obviously a nontraditional nominee in a lot of ways, and she’s a traditional noimnee in a lot of ways as well. I think she’s going to be great at administering and managing the UC. I think that she is going to be able to provide a different perspective of the UC overall and she is going to be able to represent the University of California in the political realm both on a statewide and federal level. What I would like for her to

incorporate into her leadership skills is an understanding and a true commitment to working with students and recognizing that students are a critical component of her success, a critical component of UC success, and really prioritizing and developing a partnership with students.

DB: How will you use the position of student regent in a manner different from your predecessors?

CF: I think the position is a very unique position, and in a lot of ways we have to be able to perform very basic duties. We have to be able to attend the meetings, be able to speak about student issues and pres-ent the student perspective on an array of issues. The unique aspect that I’m bringing to the job is that I want to have a hands-on approach. I don’t want to just be responding to issues, I want to be present-ing solutions. I think that’s going to be one of the primary distinctions between my term as a student regent and previ-ous terms of student regents. I want to be proactive and present solutions rather than just react to issues that are happening at the UC.

DB: What is one thing new students should know about the UC and about the regents?

CF: I would, at the very minimum, like them to feel that (UC regents) are the people that are responsible to represent (their) interests. (Students) should feel as comfortable requesting and demanding responses to their issues as they are when they ask their student govern-ment or when they ask their university administrators. If I were a new student, I think I would like to be familiar with the governing structure of the Board of Regents. But also (students should know) that they have an ally on the board and that person is the student regent. And I’m committed to working toward whatever issues students want to work on.

(The regents board) is the primary method of ensuring that the University is able to meet the needs of students. I think that students are at a significant disadvantage if they aren’t aware of the board, because if they are unaware of the board, the board ... cannot meet their needs.

Email Taketa at [email protected].

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SOURCE: University of California, UC Office of the President. Graphics reporting by Kristen Taketa, Bruin senior staff. Graphic by Adam Lai Fatt, Bruin contributor.

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UC Student AssociationThe UC Student Association is a student-run organization that lobbies for students’ interests and increased campus diversity. The association is headed by an elected president and its board is composed of student government officials from the UC campuses. The UCSA president gives opening remarks at regents meetings.

GUIDE TO WHO LEADS THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAThe University of California is headed and supported by multiple entities headquartered up the state in the Bay Area. The main entity is the UC Board of Regents, which makes decisions on how the UC spends its money, how much tuition costs and more. The Daily Bruin broke down who the regents are and what other groups are also involved with UC policy.

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Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)offers therapy, psychiatric care, and conducts wellness workshops. The map in the link attached explains where they are located.

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Services Crisis care counselors24x7 (310) 825-0768

Office for Students with Disabilitiesprovides services to meet educational needs of students with documented permanent and temporary disabilities.

@ A255 Murphy HallMon. – Fri. 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

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AskDoloresrun by Dolores Hernandez, UCLA Dining Services nutrition education coordinator, answers questions about nutrition, dietary concerns and UCLA Dining Services.

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University students are often the targets of specialized crimes because they’re known to carry valuable items and have a general lack of knowledge of how to protect themselves. Here are some tips on how to stay safe on campus from Erik Rakowski, university police crime prevention officer.

The walking escort service runs from dusk until 1 a.m.,

every day of the year. (310) 794-WALK.

CSO Van Service runs during the fall, winter and spring

quarters, Monday-Thursday, from 6 p.m. until 11 p.m.

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Personal safetyPark and walk in well-lit areas and try to walk with groups of multiple people. The

UCLA Community Service Officer programoffers two services to imporve student safety

Be aware of your surroundings. Many students have had their belongings stolen

because they were texting, listening to music or were by themselves late at night.

Sexual assaultStudents are encouraged to put

a whistle on their key chain. Scream or blow a whistle to bring attention to yourself if

you feel that you might be attacked or are being attacked. The Community Service Officer

Van Service alleviates the need to walk alone late at night.

Alcohol abuse is the leading contributor to sexual assaults among college students,

according to university police. Students should know their limits, and not drink anything that

they haven't served themselves.

To prevent these from being taken, UCLA offers a free software for laptops called Front Door, which is a GPS tracking software. An alternate choice is called the Prey Project. Both can be downloaded online.

Theft of electronics

Back up your data and information,either on an external hard drive or a website such as Carbonite.com or Mozy.com in case your laptop breaks or is stolen.

Theft of personal belongingsThe most common reports UCPD takes are for theft and the two most common items

stolen are bicycles and portable electronics.

Take pictures of your valuables, including bicycles, cellphones, jewelry

and laptops. Write down the serial numbers for your bicycle and personal

electronic devices, as they can be entered by campus police into a

nationwide database.

Do not leave backpacks or any electronics unattended. Many reports are of people going to the bathroom and returning with their phones or computers gone.

Thefts of bicyclesPurchase a U-lock bicycle lock, which

are for sale at the on-campus bike shop in the John Wooden Center. Avoid

cable-style and rope-style locks, which can be cut easily by thieves.

Make sure you park your bicycle in a site that is well-traveled so thieves will not be

alone with your bicycle.

BurglaryDuring the day, lock your doors, keep your

windows closed and be aware of people that are around. Motion lights help detect if

somebody is walking outside your door. If you see suspicious people around the complex,

don't call the apartment manager – call UCPD.

If you have any suspicion of criminal activity, call 911 immediately. The UCPD

dispatch number for phone calls from outside of the campus area is 310-825-1491.

UCPD's response time on campus is much quicker than LAPD's for serious crimes.

Visit www.ucpd.ucla.edu for additional information.

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The Undergraduate Students Association Council, known as USAC, is the official student government of UCLA undergraduate students. The council consists of 13 students, who are elected by the student body.

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PresidentJohn Joanino, fourth-year sociology student

The president acts as the official representative of the undergraduate student body and is responsible for running council meetings. The president also serves as the student voice in meetings with the chancellor and appoints about 80 students to different committees on campus.

Internal Vice PresidentAvi Oved, third-year economics student

The IVP serves as a liasion between UCLA student groups, USAC and administrators and works to ensure those groups have accessibility to campus resources and funding. The IVP also serves as the chair of the Appointments Review Committee.

Academic AffairsCommissionerDarren Ramalho,

fourth-year political science student

The Academic Affairs commissioner acts as a link between students and administrators on issues of UCLA educational policy and academics.

Student WellnessCommissioner,

Savannah Badalich,third-year global studies

The Student Wellness commissioner organizes and oversees campus programs and campaigns that promote student health and well-being.

Cultural AffairsCommissionerJessica Trumble,

fourth-year English studentThe Cultural Affairs commissioner is responsible for organizing campus events and programs that are socially and politically important to students. The commissioner also organizes UCLA’s JazzReggae Festival.

Campus EventsCommissioner

Jessica Kim, fourth-year anthropology student

The campus events commissioner is responsible for organizing film screenings and music events and bringing speakers to UCLA.

Financial SupportsCommissioner

Lauren Rogers,third-year communication studies and

psychology studentThe Financial Supports commissioner serves as the official student voice on financial issues, such as student fees, textbook, living costs and tuition. The commissioner also puts together mentorship programs and professional workshops for students.

FacilitiesCommissioner

Armen Hadjimanoukian,third-year economics and international

development studies studentThe Facilities commissioner is responsible for representing the student body on all matters of student facilities at UCLA. The commissioner sits on multiple other campus councils, such as the On-Campus Housing Council, to relay student needs to other departments.

General RepresentativesSam Haws, third-year economics and political science student

Sunny Singh, third-year economics and history studentLizzy Naameh, fourth-year international development studies

Three general representatives sit on the council, and each pursues projects of their choosing, such as running specific campaigns or organizing events.

External Vice PresidentMaryssa Hall, fourth-year Afro-American studies

and political science studentThe external vice president represents undergraduate students in all off-campus bodies, including the UC Regents and the UC Office of the President. The EVP collaborates with other student government organizations to bring city, state and nationwide issues to campus.

Community Service Commissioner

Omar Arce, fourth-year international development studies student

The Community Service commissioner oversees student community service projects and links students to community service opportunities. The CSC also helps students organize their own service projects.

BY AMANDA SCHALLERT Bruin senior [email protected]

A green energy project that originated in a UCLA class-room has come to l ight on Ackerman patio.

Two new tables equipped with solar powered charging stations, LED lights, four out-lets and USB sockets now sit on the patio outside the Ack-erman first-level back doors.

The idea for the tables – which UCLA instal led last week – began with a team of students involved w ith UCLA’s Education for Sus-tainable Living Program, said Roy Champawat, director of the UCLA Student Union.

Kyle Graycar, a fourth-year environmental sciences stu-dent, and Wendy Greene, a fourth-year ecology and evo-lutionary biology student, led the team of students who researched and developed the idea for the tables. The stu-dents first came up with the idea about a year and a half ago, while they were taking a class together, Graycar said.

The UCLA Green Initia-tive Fund covered the nearly $24,200 cost of the tables and their installation, after Gray-

car and Greene brought the proposal to the Fund’s grant-making committee, said Nurit Katz, chief sustainability offi-cer at UCLA Sustainability.

The Green Initiative Fund is supported by a $4 per quar-ter student fee, which began in fall 2008 after a referen-dum to increase fees passed in the 2008 USAC elections, Katz said.

The fund supplies students with the financial means to pursue sustainability projects on campus, and the grant-making committee consists of UCLA students and staff, Champawat said.

The students researched possible product options that UCLA could install, and ulti-mately decided to purchase tables from EnerFusion Inc., a company that constructs green charging stations.

The tables were construct-ed from recycled materials and an u mbrel la hold i ng three solar panels tops each table.

The tables were installed at Ackerman because it is a heavily used student space and the patio had room for them, Katz said.

Greene said the team did

Two Ackerman tables go solar

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not initially plan for its project to lead to material change on UCLA’s campus.

But in March 2012, the team was encouraged to apply for funding after receiving second place in a competition hosted by UCLA BGreen Consult-ing – an independent student organization that also serves as the sustainability program of the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s facilities commission.

Greene and Graycar both said they think one of the most important aspects of the tables is their use as educational tools. Greene said the tables are aimed at making sustain-able technology accessible to students.

“The benefit of these charg-ing stations isn’t only uti l i-tarian,” Graycar said. “(The tables) also (have) an educa-tional aspect where students are able to directly engage in renewable energy and very easily digest that what they are plugging into is something

green.” Champawat said the Stu-

dent Union plans to contin-ue pursuing green projects designed by students and pro-viding them funding. Last fall,

UCLA installed 132 solar pan-els on the roof of Ackerman with funding from The Green Initiative Fund.

“We want students w ith ideas they want to bring to

campus to know we are will-ing to help them and be their partners,” Champawat said.

Contributing reports by Yancey Cashell, Bruin contributor.

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Two newly installed tables in the Ackerman Student Union patio outside the first-level food court use solar energy to power charging stations. The tables are part of a student-run project.


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Nekter Juice Bar opens its doors in Westwood

BY KRISTEN TAKETABruin senior [email protected]

Nekter Juice Bar opened in Westwood recently in hopes of attracting the business of health-conscious UCLA stu-dents.

It opened i t s door s on L indbrook Avenue on Ju ly 19, a block away from a simi-lar store, Pressed Juicery on Kinross Avenue.

Nekter sells all-natural, veg-etable-packed drinks, called “cleanses,” that are meant to f lush out toxins in the body with a wave of nutrients.

Nekter ’s d r i nks feature a cornucopia of vegetables, including kale, spinach and carrots, along with fruits like lemon and orange.

“We are promoting healthy fast food,” said Lonan Leon, an employee at the Nekter Juice Bar in Westwood. “We want to discourage the (‘freshman 15’),” he said.

New Nekter locations have been slowly popping up in Southern California since its origin in 2010, with locations already in Santa Monica and West Hollywood.

The Village’s latest addition attracts the health-conscious with all-natural food, drinks

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Nekter Juice Bar opened in Westwood on July 19 on Lindbrook Avenue. The juice bar has already opened locations around Los Angeles, including Santa Monica and West Hollywood.

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Nekter also offers sever-al drinks in addition to the “cleanses,” including a three-day, three-drink cleanse that costs $195 at regular price. It can cost up to $300 for a five-day cleanse.

Severa l customers who stopped by the new Nekter Juice Bar for its grand open-ing said the cleanses were too expensive and unrealistic for their budgets.

“I’d want to (try one), but I don’t think my mom’s credit card would be too happy with that,” said Melody Kamrani, a local high school student.

Instead, several customers took home 16-ounce blends of fruits and vegetables at a relatively low $4.75 a pop.

The Juice Bar also offers acai bowls, smoothies and specialty drinks like wheat-grass shots.

Bob Cohan, a Westwood resident sporting gym shoes and black shorts, sa id he prefers the Nekter Juice Bar over other smoothie and juice shops that can be dense and unhealthy by comparison.

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SPEAKS OUTWe asked incoming first-year students to tell us what they are most excited about – or nervous for – coming to UCLA. Here’s what they said:

“I’m most excited about the chal-lenge of the classes, and being able to pick the classes that I think I might want to have a career in.”

Dominic FiliceUndeclared

“Everybody I’ve met is so nice, and everybody is so excited about being here. I think it’s really cool to be with a group of students that are just excited as you are.”

“I want to get to meet different peo-ple from different cultures, because where I’m from it’s mostly Latinos and Mexican-Americans. I’m scared, but I want to get to know everyone.”

Connor GehrisPsychobiology

Vanessa TellezUndeclared

“The setting of the classroom will be different than high school.”

Kera KwanNeuroscience

“I’m most excited to dorm. It’s a totally new experience. I get to be completely independent, and it’s a really good feeling.”

Lily NguyenPsychobiology

RYAN NELSON

I confirmed my intent to enroll in college on May 1, 2012, just like nearly every

other prospective college student in the country.

And it wasn’t UCLA.I had been wait listed by this campus,

and had opted to leave my hometown of Los Angeles for the University of San Francisco.

It wasn’t until almost a week after send-ing in my letter of intent that I received an email from UCLA telling me that I managed to weasel my way in. I now had a choice to make.

Turns out, I’m not alone. According to the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, of the approximately 76 percent of freshman undergrads who were accepted to their first-choice school, only about 59 per-cent went, a staggering 17 point difference.

In the end, I became one of that 17 percent for a multitude of reasons, including money and academics, and, truthfully, maybe I wasn’t totally ready to leave Southern Cali-fornia yet.

So for those of you, like me, who originally

had their sights set on another school but have found their way to UCLA, let me just say: You’re in for a blast.

For my first few weeks here, I was com-pletely lost. I felt overwhelmed, dumb and distracted, repeatedly playing “what if” in my idealized San Francisco. I’d wondered what it would have been like to wake up to a view of the bay instead of Hitch Suites.

Then, the strangest thing happened.Once I stopped pushing everything away

and finally immersed myself in my environ-ment, it began to feel as if that wait list letter had served a higher purpose.

I started to think that coming to this school had shaped me in a permanent way. Essentially, I began to realize that whatever Ryan Nelson would have existed in San Fran-cisco simply didn’t. Never did, never will.

And the only choice I had was to embrace this version of my life as it happened. UCLA wasn’t just any school, and I had to learn to appreciate that.

Alexis Williams, a second-year biology major, was another student in a similar situ-ation.

She had originally planned to study law at the University of Oxford in England. Howev-

er, law degrees don’t transfer, and she would have had to either commit to life as a lawyer in England or return to school in the United States. At 17, Alexis didn’t feel ready to start a life in a new country.

Unfortunately, her original insistence on studying abroad had left her domestic choices slim. At the end of it, UCLA was the best school left standing.

Despite constantly wondering what would have become of her overseas, Williams said she has come to find a home in Los Angeles. She’s joined a sorority, and even performed with them at UCLA’s talent competition, Spring Sing.

“The best part about this school is that anyone can be happy here. That’s something I’ve been happy to be apart of,” Williams said.

Yes, not going to your first-choice school is disappointing. When you’re having some rough moments your first year, you’ll grasp to that “what if” straw.

In the end though my story, and countless others here, is not one of “what if” but rather “what is.” The sooner you embrace the story unfolding before you, as opposed to the one behind you, the sooner you’ll find, it was all for the best.

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“I’m most excited about being able to try different kinds of classes, because I feel like in high school we were limited in what we can learn about, and it seems like there’s a lot of opportunities here.”

Tala MoussourasUndeclared, humanities

Embracing the second-choice college

MAIA FERDMAN

Baguettes, berets and cigarettes. On my flight to Paris for the global studies travel study

program, these were the images I expected to greet me.

These are the romantic representations of Paris from all the books and movies that I thought encompassed the city and made it so unique.

After a month, which is long enough to get sick of the stuffy Metro but too short to feel like I live here, Paris proved me partially wrong. In addition to visiting cathedrals and museums, I have seen dangling cow cadavers at open-air markets, went to a Tropical Carni-val and learned about impoverished banlieues, or French housing projects.

In order to really soak in an experience and use it to grow, whether starting a short stay in Paris or a long one at UCLA, you should take the time to step away from expectation and custom, and jump head first into the new and unfamiliar. Whether in a foreign or home coun-try, doing so can lead to incredible rewards.

Placing oneself in a completely different context strips away routine. Without familiar surroundings, you are left with nothing but yourself. You are forced to figure out what you are, away from the reflections or expectations of others. But as time passes and new routines become established in a new place, it takes even more effort to break out and challenge yourself.

Because as years go on, passing Royce Hall becomes pretty standard. As days passed here, even the Notre Dame did not turn my head like it initially did.

And as I slipped into acclimation, I found I did not appreciate or soak in as much. The process of discomfort should be continuous, laborious almost.

Traveling, whether through study or vaca-tion, is an unquestionably valuable experience.

But unless you push your boundaries – go somewhere alone, meet locals, study politics – you will not find anything beyond your guide-book’s sightseeing advice.

Scholars make countless arguments in favor of studying abroad – research has found that the experience can improve academic perfor-mance and even creativity.

But what these studies fail to recognize is that these effects are not automatic, nor are they intrinsic to the experience itself. They result from a willingness to delve into and truly appreciate a new place, and a drive to put oneself in unfamiliar or trying situations.

Starting college is not all too different. Stepping into an unfamiliar environment, with certain expectations based on stereotypes or lore, and often leaving home to do it, is thrill-ing and terrifying. As it should be.

In Paris, I challenged myself to go to muse-ums alone, to write as much as I could and to explore neighborhoods uncharted on tourist maps. My best memories have come from these endeavors. And yet, I still wish I stepped further out of my comfort zone.

But I can now take that dissatisfaction home with me, and allow it to influence the way I experience my last two years of college.

So as new experiences come along, face them not only with excitement and open mind-edness, but with tenacity and rigor. Create your own challenges if there are none. Strive for more. Get lost. And if you find yourself getting settled, rattle yourself awake.

If experience sparks growth, discomfort accelerates and refines it. It provides the jolt to shock you out of routine, to make you open your eyes to the world around you and, most importantly, to yourself. It provides the jolt to shock you out of routine, to make you open your eyes to the world around you and most importantly, to yourself.

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Pushing boundaries vital to growth

Students need to drop the hypothetical ‘what ifs’ that come with not attending their dream school and appreciate where they are

Bruins should challenge themselves to experience new things, regardless of whether they are studying at UCLA or going abroad

ON STUDY ABROAD

Top: Columnist Maia Ferdman joins fellow UCLA students to spell out “UCLA!” in front of the Eifel Tower. Left: A local resident makes crepes, a traditional French food that resembles pancakes. Right: Women dress in brightly colored outfits for a Tropical Carnival in the streets of Paris.

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Armed with charcoal pencils and paintbrushes, a select group of high school students crossed the threshold of the UCLA Broad Art Center, ready to get a taste of a college arts education.

Two weeks ago, students arrived on campus to partici-pate in the first session of UCLA art department’s sixth year of the Summer Art Institute, a pro-gram that offers high school stu-dents the opportunity to experi-ence college-level art courses.

After a competitive applica-tion process, those who were accepted chose from courses in drawing, photography, painting or sculpture, which culminated in a final critique and showcase at the end of the program. The second session of the program begins July 22.

Broad first opened its doors to younger artists in the sum-mer of 2008. Onya Hogan-Finlay, the current program director, said the UCLA art department wanted to inspire high school students to consider pursuing art school by allowing them to explore their discipline in depth in a university setting.

“It gives them a chance to spend five days a week in the studio, which, for any practicing artist or student, is a really spe-cial opportunity,” Hogan-Finlay said. “There’s a lot of one-on-one attention because of the ratio we keep – one supervising adult to 10 students.”

The courses are taught by graduating or recently graduat-ed UCLA master of fine arts stu-dents. Alumna Becky Kolsrud, who attended a similar program at the San Francisco Art Insti-tute as a high school student, led a drawing course this sum-mer. She currently works as an artist in Los Angeles and is rep-resented by JTT Gallery in New York City.

“Helping younger students find a way to express themselves and see that art isn’t just about technical skill is a really impor-tant part of being an artist,” Kol-

srud said.During this summer’s first

session, Kolsr ud sa id she instructed her students to draw one object like a pepper mill or a hole punch-e r i n

100 different ways to encour-age them to play with different styles of drawing.

In addition to college-level instruction, students have access to many of Broad’s state-of-the-art facilities, including

the digital studio, photography darkrooms and an 8,000 square foot sculpture studio.

The beginning of each day is usually devoted to learning technical skills through slide shows, lectures and a class

assignment. Christine Wang, a recent graduate student, taught the painting course this summer and one of her assignments was a monochromatic landscape. The assignment taught her stu-dents how to produce different tones and shades of one color.

Of the eight and a half hours the students

spend in class each day, a

large portion is devoted to stu-dio time during which they can finish class assignments and work on their own projects for the final showcase.

Kolsrud said some of her students spend 30-40 hours on one drawing and, even with this summer’s extended studio time on Wednesdays, they are still pushing for more time to work on their art.

“I’ve never painted this much in my life,” said Lauren Terr, a senior at Palo Alto High School who took this summer’s painting course taught by Wang.

Terr said Wang taught stu-dents to break the rules by exposing them to pieces like Cézanne’s still life paintings, which broke away from the tra-ditional idea of still lifes as exact representations of reality.

While the students are given a lot of opportunities to work independently, the instructors provide guidance and encourage them to try different approaches to their work and apply the new techniques they learned in class.

“I think the best way to help students develop their own style is to throw in obstructions to what they think they should be doing,” Kolsrud said.

Kolsrud said she likes to push her students to diverge from their usual approach to their work by telling them to start from a different place in the page or draw upside down.

Throughout the program, students are also exposed to the work and experiences of local artists through guest lectures and field trips to local art muse-ums like the Getty and the Ham-mer Museum. Artists like James Welling, Frank Ryan and Adrian Saxe lent their expertise to this past session, sharing their work and advice with the young art-ists.

At the end of each session, students participate in a group critique facilitated by a faculty member from the UCLA art department. Hogan-Finlay said it mimics the kind of critique that students would encounter in an undergraduate art course and gives students the opportu-nity to learn from each other and gain an outside perspective from

Broad Art Center breeds young artistsSummer program offers high school students chance to study the discipline in a university setting

Transfers should see with freshman eyesANNETA KONSTANTINIDES

We pulled up to Hedrick Hall on a warm September after-

noon. My mom’s Honda CR-V was packed with clothes, shower caddies and twin XL sheets. Students in yellow T-shirts ran around checking in and out moving carts. They wore grins reserved for summer counselors on the first day of summer camp that screams “I’m your friend and we’re going to get through this scary transition together.”

But the thing is, I had already done this before. Two years earlier I had pulled up in the same Honda to Bixby Hall at UC Davis. Different students in similar T-shirts and scary smiles were running around, but that time I was actually nervous.

And my parents cried.But when I stared up at

Hedrick, having decided to transfer to my childhood dream

school, I wasn’t scared at all. After living in an apartment my sophomore year, I was stoked to return to the dorm atmosphere. I imagined celebrating 21st birth-days with my fellow transfers, bonding over our upper-division course loads and sharing tips on getting the infamous summer-before-senior-year internship.

But something seemed unusual when I stepped onto my floor. Wide, nervous eyes. Sad, albeit proud, overbearing parents. Snippets of very familiar conversation. Prom. Graduation. “My boyfriend and I are totally going to make it work.” I knew it was true even before I found a yellow T-shirt to confirm. I had been put into a freshman dorm.

First reaction was sheer panic. “They look so young, why do they look so young?” I thought. “Did I used to look that young? Does this make me old?” I suddenly felt so old.

So I ran. I hopped in a car

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Movie Review

At this point, the “buddy cop” genre is hopelessly formulaic. The industry has ’80s hits such as “48 Hrs.” and “Lethal Weapon” to thank for that. But even “R.I.P.D.,” a film notable for somewhat diverging off the path with a supernatural flair, can’t escape the inevitable course of becoming lackluster enter-tainment.

Boston cop Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds) is killed in

the line of duty and, while on his way to afterlife judgment, is sent on a detour to the Rest in Peace Department, or R.I.P.D. The organization is responsible for keeping the damned from escaping judg-ment and hiding on Earth, and their always busy Boston department wants to recruit Nick to their protective ser-vices.

He is teamed up with 19th century R.I.P.D. veteran Roy Pulsipher (Jeff Bridges) and sent back to his Boston home turf. Nevertheless, while learning the newly complex ropes of the world he once lived in, he is caught up in

solving an undead scheme that suspiciously involves his ex-partner Bobby Hayes (Kevin Bacon).

In his review for a similar buddy cop movie, “Rush Hour,” critic Roger Ebert coined the term “Wunza Movie,” (a pun on the phrase “one’s a…”) referring to the habit of buddy cop films to pair two very dif-ferent partners together. The term couldn’t be more appropriate for the contrast-ing silliness of the main protagonists of “R.I.P.D.”

Nick is a fair, though confused, cop who des-perately wishes to return home to his wife. Roy is an impa-tient, unfriendly Old West sheriff who wants to work alone. The film’s most clever moments come from their different personalities and backgrounds attempting to coexist. Though this humor coming from such predict-able ideas goes to show how humorless the movie is.

When it unavoidably airs on television action movie

blocks, many scenes from “R.I.P.D.” will easily be mis-taken for “Men in Black.” Both feature odd creatures as villains hiding on the planet Earth, obsessed with ancient artifacts that can help them cause immense havoc. Both have a theme of disconnec-tion from the world, and com-ing to terms with oneself and

reality. And yet, where “Men in Black” was havoc at its most alien-filled enjoyable peak, “R.I.P.D.” only feels hollow and ridiculous.

The estab-lished rules of the universe the cops operate in are practically non-existent. The only

important one addressed is the inability to communicate your identity to the living.

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‘R.I.P.D.,’ a film notable for ... a supernatural flair, can’t escape the inevitable course of become-ing lackluster.

by Kevin Fenix

In the DC Comics’ Batgirl series, Dr. Andrea Letamendi is Batgirl’s per-sonal therapist. In reality, Dr. Andrea Letamendi’s life is not that different. Self-proclaimed nerd Dr. Letamendi is a UCLA clinical psychologist who

specializes in superhero psychology. She merges her passions for both psychology and comic book characters as a creative consultant, comic convention speaker and avid blogger.

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and gives students the oppor-tunity to learn from each other and gain an outside perspective from more experienced artists. Each student also showcases some of their artwork in the New Wight Gallery in a final reception that is open to family and friends.

Kolsrud and Wang said they wanted their students to leave with a sense of confidence and a commitment to practicing their craft.

“Aspiring artists need to believe in themselves and know that everything that they need to succeed is already in them,” Wang said. “It’s their minds, their skills, their time.”

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to San Diego and went to my friend’s 21st birthday party. As I told the tale to my same age or older friends they all said the same thing: wait out the two-week requirement and then switch halls. And as I drove back to L.A. that’s exactly what I decided I was going to do.

Until I realized how much I might miss it.

I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to at first rolling my eyes and

skipping out on some of the kumbaya-get-to-know-each-other dorm dinners and being asked over and over what city I’m from and where I went to high school.

But living with freshmen forced me to look at UCLA, and at college in general, through fresh eyes. As many of my friends were hitting their third-year slump, tired of their group, their party scene or just studying and classrooms in general, I was surrounded 24/7 by people who embraced every new experience.

I realized that living with freshmen didn’t make me feel old – it was just the opposite. I wasn’t expecting to share tips on proper wrist flicking for beer pong or correct lower-division essay structuring, and the only 21st birthday celebrated was my own.

But it didn’t really matter in the late-night study sessions and the 2 a.m. lounge memories that are only made on Thursday nights. When you’re in the same place, whether it be for four years or even two, it’s hard not to feel restless sometimes.

But my second freshman year, as I like to call it, reminded me to keep trying new things and looking for new experi-ences. And it’s hard to feel the stress of the real world when you’re writing your cover letters and 15-page papers around people having so much fun just being here.

Whoever said these are the best four years of your life must have been a freshman twice too.

Email Konstantinides at [email protected].

The dead defy gravity, can’t be visibly injured and open worm-holes, all the while leaving behind an immense amount of destruction for the city of Boston to handle. Much of it is hard to grasp, which is sure to contribute heavily to the lack of engagement the audience may feel with the characters or their plot.

Visually, “R.I.P.D.” doesn’t strive for much either. Like “Men in Black,” the dead can be brought out of hiding and transformed into their actual monster-like forms. However, the unimaginative “R.I.P.D.” appears to only make these monsters larger and fatter than their human identities. The visual effects are poor, often throwing cheap 3-D gags toward the screen, with unconvincing shooting scenes or monster spit.

Though it starts off with all the pieces of a plausibly interesting premise, “R.I.P.D.” quickly decelerates into a for-mulaic routine devoid of the entertainment that made any of its predecessors enjoyable. At the end of its run (a short 96 minutes, something of a saving grace), “R.I.P.D.” clearly sets up for a potential sequel. If one does happen to be made, it won’t be because the film deserved it. More likely, it will be to let Bridges have his rowdy, thick-accented, cowboy fun.

- Sebastian Torrelio

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RIPD Students stray from traditional music industry path

BY ANDREA SEIKALYA&E [email protected]

From the time he wakes up and makes his first cup of coffee, Walker Ashby has one thing on his mind: his music.

Ashby, a fourth-year fine arts stu-dent who is known by his stage name Toy Light, said that he devoted entire days to working on his electronic music this past year.

After a caffeine boost and a review of his email inbox, he would sit down and get to recording – mixing beats and sounds within the comfort of his room using the music production soft-ware, Ableton.

“(Ableton) is what I use pretty much for everything,” Ashby said. “You can DJ with that program, you can produce music, you can remix music, you can record. It’s endless.”

While achieving musical success was once a question of getting heard or discovered by an agent or record label, up-and-coming musicians now have many ways to produce and dis-tribute their own music.

Young musicians can now create and share entire albums without ever leaving their dorm rooms or setting foot in a recording studio.

Asbhy said he uses Ableton along with a Musical Instrument Digital Interface controller that allows him to manipulate sounds and effects and have a hands-on experience with his music electronically.

“It’s very important, especially if you’re making music that has any kind of original ity or organic ele-ments,” Ashby said. “You want to be able to touch the sounds in some way.”

Recent UCLA graduate and bass-ist Owen Clapp said that YouTube, along with other sites like Soundcloud and Bandcamp, are also changing the game for musicians who wish to share their music online.

Clapp said the abil ity to upload music easily to these sites makes it easier for musicians to share music today than it was just 10 years ago.

“You can just post a link to that on Facebook and it’s embedded in the newsfeed and you can click and play it right from there.”

Clapp said he does not do a lot of online promotion for his own original music, but he does use YouTube and Soundcloud to share song covers and listen to music from other musicians with similar artistic interests.

Soundcloud, referred to on its web-site as the place to “hear the world’s sounds,” was founded in 2007 and serves as a social media platform for musicians to share audio recordings both privately and publicly.

Braeden Henderson, who gradu-ated from UCLA in the spring, said he and his UCLA underground pop rock band Owl Fly South have uploaded their singles to both sites, but pre-fer to use Bandcamp to share their music.

“It seems like the goal of Sound-cloud is more to share sound, not necessarily music,” Henderson said. “Bandcamp is specif ical ly music-oriented and it’s primarily geared toward the sharing of albums and collections of musical works.”

Owl Fly South has posted its two singles “Blink” and “Castle” to both sites, and their songs are available for download on Bandcamp.

Ashby said one of the most chal-

lenging aspects of using this online approach to promote one’s own music is that the musician becomes his or her own producer, agent and pro-moter all rolled into one. While some musicians have chosen this new, non-traditional route, working without the support of a producer or a record label can still be daunting.

Some musicians, like Ashby, find it easier to control their own music and schedules. Ashby said he has shared al l of h is electronic music onl ine through Soundcloud and Bandcamp, but he says there are still some advan-tages to working with a label.

“Essentially, the only difference between a record label and someone like me is that a record label has an immediate bundle of followers all the time,” Ashby said. “It’s a lot more chal-lenging to just find people to listen to my music, and I’m really lucky that people find me.”

Henderson also added that he and

his bandmates use Facebook and Twitter to interact with their grow-ing fan base and post links to new music and information about upcom-ing shows.

Still, this independent approach comes at a cost.

“I think the most difficult thing for someone like me is to make money and get a set of shows that will each pay you significantly,” Ashby said. “I’m still such a secret.”

Whi le these new avenues pro-vide musicians with a wider range of options, Henderson said he thinks there is still value in sharing physical, tangible forms of music. He said when Owl Fly South releases its first album, it will do so in vinyl, CD and digital formats.

“If you look at any huge artist you love, there are very few digital-only releases, even now in 2013, and I think that says something,” Hender-son said.

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Fourth-year art student Walker Ashby, known by his stage name Toy Light, uses new technologies to independently produce his music.

Through the use of online media, musicians are starting to try out a more independent route for sharing their songs

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SportsSix players named to preseason watch lists

This past spr ing, r ising redshirt senior wide receiver Shaquelle Evans made it clear he was after a spot in UCLA football’s history books as its single-season receiving yards record holder.

T h ree mont h s l a ter, i t appears his expectations are being taken seriously, as the Inglewood native was named to the 2013 preseason Bilet-nikoff Award Watch List on July 16 along with 74 of college football’s most highly touted

wide receivers.The award is handed out in

December to the NCAA’s best wide receiver by the Tallahas-see Quarterback Club Foun-dation, Inc., and was awarded to eventual Heisman Trophy final ist Marqise Lee of USC earlier this year.

In 2012, h is f i rst season catching passes from rising redshirt sophomore quarter-back Brett Hundley, Evans hauled in a total of 60 recep-tions for three touchdowns, a

team-high 877 receiving yards – a performance that earned h im an honorable mention Al l-Pac-12 distinction from the league’s coaches. It was a marked improvement over 2011, Evans’ first active season at UCLA following his decision to transfer from Notre Dame, where the then-redshirt sopho-more had only 19 receptions for 309 yards and two touch-downs.

Among those selected to Biletnikoff Award’s preseason watch list include defending recipient and r ising junior Marqise Lee – also a frontrun-ner for this season’s Heisman

Trophy – along with Oregon’s Josh Huff and Oregon State’s Brandin Cooks, among others.

The July 16 announcement comes just a day after several other Bruins were named to preseason award watch lists. Rising senior outside lineback-er Anthony Barr, fresh off his first season as a defensive play-er, and rising junior offensive guard Xavier Su’a-Filo were both named to the preseason watch list for the Rotary Lom-bardi Award. The Lombardi Award is given annually to col-lege football’s most outstand-

Basketball forward to miss four months

On T uesday, UCL A Ath let ics announced that men’s basketball fresh-man forward Wanaah Bail underwent left knee surgery on June 28 to repair torn cartilage.

Bail is expected to miss four months of practice while he rehabilitates the damaged cartilage, effective from the date of his surgery.

The eligibility of the 6-foot-9 for-ward from Houston is still in question for the 2013-2014 season. Bail gradu-ated from Lamar Consolidated High School in 2012 and was initially signed on to play for then-coach Billy Gillispie at Texas Tech, but left the school’s basketball program just weeks after his arrival.

Because of his brief stint in Lub-bock, Texas, it is unclear whether Bail will have to sit out the coming sea-son in observance of NCAA transfer rules. UCLA said it is “continuing to work through the process to deter-mine (Bail’s) status for the upcoming season.”

Bail, who was rated by ESPN as the No. 23 Class of 2012 basketball pros-pect in the state of Texas, has been taking summer classes at UCLA while working with first-year coach Steve Alford in preparation for the upcoming season.

A four-month layoff would bring Bail back on Oct. 28, nearly two weeks before the Bruins open their season at home against Drexel University.

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Freshman Wanaah Bail, who transferred from Texas Tech, had surgery on his left knee

Bruin faces top competition in U-20 World Cup

BY KEVIN BOWMANBruin Sports senior [email protected]

As r iots raged through downtown Istanbul, Turkey, Javan Torre sat in his hotel room, away from the chaos at the center of the city. Despite the unrest nearby, Torre was focused on something else.

“Turkey was strictly busi-ness,” he said.

Torre, a rising sophomore defender for UCLA men’s soc-cer, spent the last month and a half in Europe competing for the U.S. under-20 men’s national team in the Toulon Tournament in France and the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey.

His trip started on May 28 in Toulon, France, where the United States played France, Columbia, Demo-cratic Republic of Congo and South Korea in the tourna-ment – the team’s final games before the World Cup. After France, Torre and the team spent some time in Portugal continuing to prepare until finally beginning World Cup play in Istanbul, Turkey on June 21.

While the U.S. team went 0-2-1 against Spain, France and Ghana and fa i led to advance past the group stage of the U-20 World Cup, Torre said he was still pleased with the team’s performance, as well as his own. Torre said the tie game against France, who went on to win the tour-nament, was the most memo-rable experience of his trip overseas.

“It was unfortunate we didn’t get the three points out of that game, but that game

was a battle from beginning to end and I think that was the most fun I had during the trip because it brought the best out of everyone,” Torre said.

The challenge of facing such difficult internation-al competition such as the French team helped h im grow as a player, he said.

“Because of the length of the trip and the level of play it was at, I’d say it made me improve a lot more. I learned a lot more during this month than any other trip,” Torre said.

U. S . U -2 0 co a c h Tab Ramos agreed that the U-20 World Cup would help his players in their development.

“I see it as a great experi-ence for our players regard-less,” Ramos said. “Hopefully we have a lot of players on this team that will move up to play for (U.S. national team coach) Jurgen Klinsmann at some point. That’s how we have to look at it.”

This trip wasn’t Torre’s first stint with the national team. He also played for the U-18 team in the 2011 Milk Cup as well as the U-20 team in the 2012 Marbella Cup. But this trip stood out from the rest, he said.

“Those are more for evalu-ation when they’re looking at players,” Torre said. “When it came to the World Cup, that was not so much trying to prove yourself to the coach-es, but you’re trying to prove yourself to everybody else. You’re trying to make your nation heard.”

Playing against the top international competition of his age group, Torre said the

World Cup not only showed him a higher level of play, but also gave him a glimpse of what his life could be like should he reach the profes-sional level.

“Those players are playing against adults for their posi-tions on the field and when it’s about money, you see a much more focused mindset among the players,” Torre

said.“When someone’s trying

to support a family, they play with a lot more heart and it

USTA camp fosters players’ development

BY EMILIO RONQUILLOBruin Sports senior [email protected]

From cherry picking in Yakima, Wash., to photo ops with rocky hills along a scenic drive to Portland, Ore., Robin Anderson’s experience with her United States Tennis Association collegiate squad provided a light-hearted change of pace for the Bruin.

Traveling to a f light back home after a tournament in Yakima, the rising junior enjoyed the simpler parts of life during a summer with few breaks.

“Usually on road trips, I never real-ly paid attention to what was around me, and now being on the team, this is a new experience for all of us, and we’re enjoying all the little things, like the scenery,” Anderson said.

Anderson and rising sophomore Kyle McPhillips traveled to Carson, Calif., in late June to represent the UCLA women’s tennis team in the 2013 USTA Collegiate Team Camp. Early this month, r ising juniors Marcos Giron and Dennis Novikov trained in the men’s side of the pro-gram in Flushing, N.Y., the site of the U.S. Open.

Twelve women and 12 men are invited by the USTA to participate in a four-day training camp, although

only players achieving certain rank-ings or winning specific singles tour-naments are guaranteed one of six final roster spots on each team.

On top of receiving free coaching, athletes on the final roster are cov-ered for hotels when playing in USTA Pro Circuit events, such as the Yaki-ma competition, and receive grant money for food, f lights and racket maintenance. Collegiate team ben-efits run through the end of the 2013-2014 NCAA season. Anderson and

Novikov have already clinched spots on the final roster: the former by win-ning the Indoor National Champion-ships singles title in November 2012, and the latter by cracking the Asso-ciation of Tennis Professionals’ top 750 during the 2012-2013 school year.

McPhillips’ bid to make the team ended after a round-robin competi-tion held during training camp last month, while Giron’s status will be

The international experience contributes to defender Javan Torre’s growth as a player

Four Bruins participated in the elite training, with two already securing spots on final collegiate team roster

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Rising redshirt senior wide receiver Shaquelle Evans was one of 75 receivers added to the Biletnikoff Award preseason watch list.


After playing in the Marbella Cup last year, rising sophomore defender Javan Torre played in the FIFA Under-20 World Cup with the United States under-20 national team earlier this summer.


Rising junior Robin Anderson said her time spent traveling with the United States Ten-nis Association collegiate squad has been enjoyable despite making her summer busy.


Rising junior Marcos Giron will need to earn the third-most points out of seven other com-petitors to earn a spot on the USTA Collegiate Team.

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The Rose Bowl is not only one of the most famous stadiums a UCLA team plays in, but it is also arguably one of the most famous stadiums in all of college foot-ball. Completed in 1922, the Rose Bowl has been the home field for UCLA football since 1982. Its 91,000 seats have allowed many fans to take in some of the most memorable moments in sports history, including the annual Rose Bowl games, the five Super Bowls it has hosted, the 1932 and 1984 Olympics, the 1994 FIFA World Cup and the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup. It has also been the site of the college football national championship game three times and will be for a fourth time in 2014. Starting in 2015, the Rose Bowl will host a semifinal game for the newly established College Football Playoff.

Located in Pasadena, 30 miles from UCLA’s campus, the Rose Bowl has seen the Bruins fall from being the No. 5 team in the nation in 1982 to finishing ninth in the Pac-10 in 2010 before winning the Pac-12 South Division title the past two seasons.

Pauley Pavilion has served as one of the most iconic sport-ing facilities on UCLA’s campus for nearly 50 years, and is con-sidered one of the most historic college basketball arenas in the country.

This largely has to do with UCLA men’s basketball’s suc-cess under coach John Wooden in the 1960s and 1970s. This success, when UCLA won seven straight NCAA titles from 1967 to 1973, corresponded with the opening of Pauley Pavilion as the basketball team’s new ven-ue in 1965.

Along with men’s basketball, Pauley Pavil-ion also plays host to UCLA women’s bas-ketball, women’s gymnastic, and men’s and women’s volleyball teams.

The arena, named after University of Cali-fornia Regent Edwin W. Pauley whose dona-tions helped fund it, underwent renovations recently, and was closed from 2011 to 2012.

It reopened in fall 2012 after the $136 mil-lion in renovations were completed, adding a larger concourse area around the stadium, new food options, more restrooms, a UCLA team store, updated locker rooms, an HD scoreboard and additional seating.

In October 2012, a statue of Wooden was unveiled outside Pauley Pavilion.

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1 Easton Stadium

UCLA’s campus is the home of the most successful athletic

program in the NCAA.

2 Spieker Aquatics Center 3 Drake

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The home of the UCLA softball team, Easton Stadium, sits on the same site as softball’s old stadium, Sunset Field, where the Bruins started playing in 1979. Easton Stadium opened in 1994 with a seating capacity of more than 1,300 and underwent renovations from 2004 to 2005. In 1996, the U.S. national softball team used the stadium to train for the Olympics in Atlanta. While they have played at Easton Stadium, the Bruins have won four national championships, with the most recent coming in 2010.

The Spieker Aquatics Center is the home pool for UCLA’s swim and dive team and men’s and women’s water polo. Opened in 2009, the aquatics center was named after Tod and Catherine Spieker. Tod Spieker swam for the Bruins from 1968 to 1971. In its relatively short history, the Spieker Aquatics Center has already hosted its fair share of promi-nent competitions. In 2010, the women’s water polo Moun-tain Pacific Sports Federation Championship Tournament was held there. The following year, Spieker Aquatics hosted the men’s version of the tournament, as well as the 2011 AT&T National Diving Championship. The aquatics center was also the site of a training game played between the USA and Hungarian men’s water polo national teams in 2012 in preparation for the Olympics later that year.

Named for longtime UCLA track coach, trainer and athlete Elvin C. Drake, Drake Stadium hosts the men’s and women’s soccer teams as well as the track and field team. The stadium, which can hold approximately 11,700 fans, became the home field for track and field in 1969, with the soccer teams calling it home starting in 2000. While com-peting at Drake Stadium, the men’s track and field team has won six NCAA championships, the women’s track and field team has won three outdoor titles and the men’s soccer team won the 2002 national championship.

4 LA Tennis Center 5 John Wooden

Center

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Home of the UCLA men’s and women’s tennis teams, the L.A. Tennis Center has served as the venue for several profes-sional and international events. Most notably, the L.A. Tennis Center hosted the tennis events for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. In addition to the Olympics, the L.A. Tennis Center has also hosted the L.A. Open, which is part of the Associa-tion of Tennis Professionals tour. Opened in 1984, prior to the Olympics, the L.A. Tennis Center can hold 10,000 spectators. It has hosted the NCAA championships four times, and since the L.A. Tennis Center opened, UCLA men’s tennis has won two national titles, in 1984 and 2005, and women’s tennis has won one, in 2008.

The John Wooden Center serves as UCLA’s student gym, complete with treadmills, ellipticals, free weights, racquet-ball courts, basketball courts and a number of instructional and fitness classes. Collins Court, the Wooden Center’s bas-ketball courts, played host to the UCLA men’s and women’s volleyball teams as well as the women’s basketball team in 2011 while Pauley Pavilion was undergoing renovation. The women’s volleyball team won the NCAA title during its season playing in the Wooden Center. Collins Court is also the location of daily pickup basketball games and intramural basketball games.

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6 Jackie Robinson Stadium

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Located about two miles off campus, Jackie Robinson Stadium gets its name from one of baseball’s most famous players. Jackie Robinson played for the UCLA baseball team while he attended UCLA from 1939 to 1941. Beyond just nam-ing the stadium after him, the stadium also features a statue of Robinson, and on April 14 of this year, UCLA unveiled a new commemorative mural of Robinson. Opened in 1981, the stadium can hold about 1,800 people and is the home field for UCLA baseball, which recently won its first national title. The Bruins have reached the College World Series three out of the past four years while playing at Jackie Robinson Stadium.

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After tying for a team high of seven goals last s e a s on , W i l l i a m s now enters his senior year as the Bruins’ top returning point scorer. After mid-fielders Ryan Hollingshead and Evan Raynr – two of UCLA’s best shot creators last season – graduated, even more responsibi l ity falls to Williams to fill that void. Williams was named a 2012 first-team All-Pac-12 selection last year and will look to improve on that his year. He will now try to lead the Bruins further in the NCAA tournament after the Bruins were ousted from in the second round by the University of San Diego Toreros last season.

After redshirting his first year on campus in 2011, Hundley broke onto the scene in a big way a year ago in his first season as a starter. On his first play from scrimmage in his first col-lege game, Hundley ran for a 72-yard touchdown against Rice University and didn’t look back from there. Hund-ley led the Bruins to a 9-5 record, a Pac-12 South Divi-sion title and a trip to the Holiday Bowl. Along the way, he set new UCLA records for single-season passing yards (3,740), single-season com-pletions (318), single-season total offense (4,095) and most touchdown passes by a freshman (29). As a dual-threat quarterback, Hund-ley’s abi l ity to affect the game with both his running and passing abilities earned him national recognition as one of the nation’s top young quarterbacks.

A highly touted recruit out of Loyola High School, Bar r strugg led to make much of an impact his first two years on campus while play ing F-back – a cross between running back and tight end – on offense. In his junior year, Barr made the switch to linebacker and immediately made his pres-ence known. He f in ished the 2012 season with 13.5 sacks, the second-most in the nation, and 21.5 tack-les for loss, the most on the team. Barr made an impact in a different sense during UCLA’s 38-28 win over USC, when his crushing hit on Matt Barkley separated the USC quarterback’s shoul-der and caused him to miss the remainder of the sea-son. After his breakout year, Barr was expected to be a first-round draft pick, but elected to return to UCLA for his senior season.

Players to knowThese UCLA athletes are primed to have big seasons this year.

Brett Hundley

FootballRising redshirt sophomore quarterback

Anthony Barr

FootballRising senior outside linebacker

Reed Williams

Men’s soccerRising senior forward


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With the departure of Zakiya Bywaters, who was the No. 1 pick in the Nation-al Women’s Soccer League draft, Smith will step in as the Bruins’ top returning offensive option. Her eight goals last season were sec-ond on the team behind Bywaters. Smith also con-verted on 25 percent of her shots last season, making her a more efficient scorer than Bywaters was. After losing in the NCAA quar-terfinals last season, Smith will try to guide the Bruins further into the NCAA tour-nament this year.

Quiroga, who hails from San Juan, Argentina, has been the Bruins’ most con-sistent outside hitting threat for the past several seasons. He has led the Bruins in ser-vice aces and points – the total points won through kills, service aces and solo blocks – in all three of his years at UCLA, while lead-ing the team in kills twice. He finished the 2013 season with 420 kills, 52 aces and a .329 hitting percentage, which is the number of kills minus the number of errors, all divided by the total num-ber of attempts. Now enter-ing his senior season, Quiro-ga will try to push the Bruins into the NCAA tournament for the first time in his career after losing in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation playoffs the past three years.

Berg , who or i g i n a l ly made the UCLA baseball as a walk-on, emerged as one of the best pitchers in college baseball in his sophomore season. He finished the 2013 season with a 0.92 earned run average, a 7-0 record and an NCAA record of 24 saves. Although his fastball doesn’t overpower batters with its speed, Berg’s unusual side-armed delivery gave oppos-ing players trouble, and helped earn him the Nation-al College Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year award, which recog-nized him as the nation’s top relief pitcher. Berg, who was also a Baseball America first-team All-American, helped lead the Bruins to their first-ever national championship in 2013.

Gonzalo Quiroga

Men’s volleyballRising senior outside hitter

David Berg

BaseballRising junior closer

Taylor Smith

Women’s soccerRising junior forward

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Carda was a two-way force last season. The Bruins’ top pitcher, she also finished among the top on her team in hitting statistics. As a pitcher, Carda finished with a 23-10 record, a 2.30 ERA and 217 strikeouts. As a hitter, Carda’s .339 batting average was the fourth-best on the team. Carda also hit 18 home runs and drove in 50 runs during the season.

After the graduation of outside hitter Rachael Kidder, Reeves will step into Kidder’s former role, as the two play the same position. Reeves finished last season fifth on the team in kills with 150 and helped defensively with 276 digs, the second-most on the team. Reeves was named to the 2013 Pac-12 All-Star team and traveled to China for two weeks this summer to compete against professional Chinese teams.

Ally Carda

SoftballRising junior pitcher/utility

Kelly Reeves

Women’s volleyballRising senior outside hitter

Jordan Adams

Men’s basketballRising sophomore guard

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Enter ing last season, Ada m s w a s con s idered the fourth best of UCLA’s four incoming freshmen, accord ing to ESPN. In i-tially overshadowed by top-ranked recruits Shabazz Muhammad, Kyle Anderson and Tony Parker, Adams quickly showed he could be a key contributor, scoring 21 points off the bench in the season opener against Indiana State. He was sec-ond on the team in scoring, averaging 15.3 points per game to go with a team-high 73 steals on the year. With Muhammad now in the NBA, Adams wil l be the team’s top returning scorer.

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ing down lineman, offensive or defensive, that “sets up no farther than 10 yards to the left or right of the ball” or line-backers, including Barr, who “set up no farther than 5 yards deep from the line of scrim-mage.”

Barr also received a pre-season nod for the Butkus Award, which distinguishes college football’s best lineback-er. He was joined on the list by UCLA inside linebackers Eric Kendricks and Jordan Zum-walt, a rising redshirt junior and senior, respectively.

The two watch lists barely scratch the surface for Barr. He was also l isted as a pre-season candidate for the Max-well Award, given to America’s Col lege Player of the Year,

last week along with Hundley, as well the Bednarik Award, awarded to college football’s Defensive Player of the Year, alongside Kendricks.

On July 17, Hundley was announced as one of 34 quar-terbacks on the watch list for the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award, won by Texas A&M’s Johnny Man-ziel in 2012. Hundley looks to become UCLA’s first quarter-back to win the award since quarterback Troy Aikman took home the hardware in 1988.

The 2013 Biletnikoff, Max-wel l, O’Brien and Bednarik awards w inners w i l l a l l be announced during the Home Depot College Football Awards Show on Dec. 12, while the Lombardi Award will be hand-ed out on Dec. 11 in Houston.

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decided by his performance in summer tournaments. Because his playoff competition was rained out, making the team will require Giron to outper-form a majority of his peers in USTA events.

Giron will earn points based on how far he gets in tourna-ments that are weighted dif-ferently based on level of com-petition. Giron could make the roster on Aug. 12 if he accu-mulates at least the third-most points among seven other invi-tees. Both McPhillips and Giron received $2,000 grants to cover tennis expenses for the rest of this summer.

In February, the program shifted from a seasonal for-mat to become a year-round resource to accommodate play-ers wanting to enter USTA Pro Circuit events during the academic year. Athletes can receive additional train ing and coaching that they would not be able to get from school coaches, since the NCAA limits the set amount of time players can practice under their college coaches, said Dustin Taylor, USTA national collegiate coach.

Taylor bel ieves that par-ticipation in the elite training camps, each of which are run by two USTA-selected colle-giate coaches, pushes players to the best of their abilities. He also said that road-tripping with peers via van to profes-sional tournaments is an indis-pensable experience for col-legiate players seeking a living

in the sport.“(Professional players) will

be on tour, they’ll want to have those friendships and relation-ships with their countrymen. I don’t want to say it’s lonely, but week in and week out, it’s ... a new city, a new country, a lot of the times,” Taylor said.

“…It’s good to make those connections with, sometimes, your biggest rivals … so when you leave college, there’s a good chance you’re sticking togeth-er.”

Anderson appreciated the experience, describing her June training camp as “probably the best USTA camp” she has ever attended. Anderson feels a team environment, such as the one the USTA collegiate squad fosters, provides a support sys-tem that helps get her through matches.

“I sometimes see players (on their own during tournaments) and they look so miserable. You have these coaches and players here supporting you, practic-ing with you every day, helping you out during the match, and whether you win or not, they’re still here for you.”

Taylor noticed how Anderson relished the team setting and identified a sense of belonging to something greater than the individual as one of the most vital aspects of college players’ development.

“I don’t think you go a min-ute or two without her smiling, and her smile really lights up the room. … She brings a hap-py-go-lucky, bubbly personality that all the girls and coaches have grabbed onto,” Taylor said. The USTA coach added that he felt a team dynamic among his

women’s team unlike any he has seen with previous squads.

Giron cited his experience in junior tennis as an explanation for why his familiar teammates were “really friendly and sup-portive of each other.” Despite occasional f r iendly banter about past matches, Novikov fe l t that the men’s ca mp retained the feel of “a work-ing environment” conducive to athletes pushing each other to improve.

The coaches’ emphasis on drilling and individual tech-niques provided Giron a wel-come change from play ing match points during NCAA-season practices. Giron said that his training experience, which he recognizes won’t translate to improvements overnight, helped him think more carefully about decision-making on the court.

“The biggest thing I took out of training is really under-standing when to attack the ball and when to defend the ball depending on how the oppo-nent hits the ball,” he said.

The small picture captured by the skills refined and memo-ries created during the colle-giate team’s summer camps and tournaments helps to develop what Taylor sees as bright pro-fessional futures for Anderson, Novikov, Giron and McPhillips.

“They’ve come a long way since I’ve seen them as (junior tennis players), and that’s a tes-tament to UCLA. If they want to play professional tennis … they’ve got the attributes to do it, but it’s got to come from them, and it’s got to be some-thing they want to do,” Taylor said.

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Rising junior Dennis Novikov won the Amelia Island tournament earlier this summer and said his current training with the USTA collegiate team has helped him improve his game.


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Before he gets to that next level, Torre has to first think about his college team.

With even more national team experience under Torre’s belt , UCLA team mate Joe Sofia, a rising senior defender, bel ieves Torre’s time spent playing against international competition will help the Bru-ins improve this season.

“Javan Torre is a great play-er, a great defender, and I think with his recent exposure to the under-20 national team he’s been able to play against some of the top forwards,” Sofia said.

“So just that experience and ability to play against those for-wards will really help us and help him this year when he plays for our team.”

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Sept. 6Women’s soccer at North Carolina – North

Carolina won the NCAA title last season

Sept. 15Men’s soccer v. University of San Diego – UCLA was eliminated from the NCAA tournament by

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the Pac-12 title last season.

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109Number of NCAA titles won by UCLA teams –

the most in the nation.

7Consecutive NCAA titles won by men’s bas-ketball from 1967 to 1973 under coach John

Wooden.

88Consecutive games won by men’s basketball from 1971 to 1974 under Wooden – the longest

streak by a men’s basketball team.

54Consecutive men’s basketball seasons with a

winning record, from 1949 to 2002.

19NCAA titles won by former men’s volleyball

coach Al Scates – tied for the most of any coach for any sport.

11NCAA titles won by men’s basketball – the most

for any team.

16NCAA titles won by men’s tennis, third-most in

nation and the second-most of any UCLA sport.

11NCAA championships won by softball, the most

of any school.

1994The last year no UCLA teams won an NCAA title.

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