Los Angeles Times photographer Al Seib was at UCLA on Thursday for the school’s third annual "Locks of Love" event. Participants included Katherine Svoboda, 20, a senior at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, who had 26 inches of her hair cut off by Sarah Davis, above center, and Elizabeth Hartley, right, of the Vidal Sassoon Academy. Said Svoboda, who hadn’t had a haircut in 11 years: "I’ve planned on cutting my hair for ‘Locks of Love’ for five years now. It doesn’t seem fair to have my hair when someone else can use it."
Svoboda’s hair, along with the more than 240 UCLA students, staff, alumni and friends who had their locks cut for a good cause, will be donated to the nonprofit organization of the same name that makes wigs for children suffering from medical hair loss. Those on the receiving end of the haircuts, provided by student stylists from the Vidal Sassoon Academy in Santa Monica, had to donate at least five inches.
The event was hosted by the Alumni Scholars Club, a student group that is part of the UCLA Alumni Assn.