University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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UCLA ' s camp for over privileged freshmen What is Uni Prep? A three day orientation for freshmen held in the dorms just prior to fall registration . A girl bringing eight dresses, a hair-dryer, a hi-fi, six pairs of shoes, cut-offs and a tennis skirt, as well as two suitcases, to spend her first three days away from home. . . . It ' s Uni Prep when the guys shooting pool in Rieber wear ties and don ' t smoke . . . . . . . After a maximum temperature of 84 all summer, it ' s that time again . . . because it ' s 98 degrees and 47 teenyboppers insist on seeing that statue of the naked lady by the library . . . and you didn ' t know there was one . . . It ' s definitely Uni Prep when the girl getting on the Men ' s Wing elevator (she didn ' t realize there was a difference) is holding her loafers and sloping sharply to the right under the weight of her first shoulder-bag. . . . Uni Prep is when the girls look older than the guys . . . and no one cares. This year Uni Prep was a list of 29 people who missed lockout the first night. Twenty-four were counselors. Uni Prep is conceived of as a learning experience as a type of freshman N.P.I. - as UCLA ' s Camp for Over Privileged Freshmen.

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The game is called Registration. (Anyone who wants to play line up in front of the Administration Build- ing.) Any number can play from one to twenty eight thousand. Usually the best time to play this game is right before the quarter begins. The object is to see how long it takes for a person to have a nervous breakdown. The rules are simple and con- sist of three basic points: (1) standing in a line which has no beginning and no end, (2) standing for two hours in a line which has no beginning and no end, and (3) standing for two hours in a line which has no beginning and no end and then discovering that you have been standing in the wrong line. Of course, there are also a few minor rules which must be followed. One must first fill out the reg pack (which comes with the game) or as it is com- monly refered to: see how much information you can write on a line one-sixteenth of an inch wide; become utterly disgusted; and go directly to the Dean, do not pass Royce Hall, do not collect eighty dollars and fifty cents; or if you are playing and are not from California, go directly to the Dean, do not pass Royce Hall, do not collect four hundred and fifty dollars and fifty cents. Oh, yes, there is also one small detail that is now a rule: it must rain. If it doesn ' t, the administration invariably post- pones this fun-fest until the sky is a heavy black. If your local university doesn ' t carry this particular past-time, be sure to ask for it by its other name Campus Chaos. 29 REG FIRST STB THIS EITRAICE