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

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It is now 1972. Southern Campus had been around for a long time. It seems that each year it is exceedingly more and more difficult to publish this type of yearbook. It used to be that the spirit of the school drew everyone together and the yearbook served as a journalistic and photographic chronicle of the gatherings of the past year. The basic question seems to be that of priorities. The ultimate question for the fraternities and the sororities stems not from the thought of which house has the most members or the greatest amount of activities, but rather the debate of whether these institutions are officially dead. Sports is still very popular here, but it is reaching the point where UCLA sports is on television too much. It is getting very difficult to buy a better seat than the one in your living room. Publications on this campus are in a continual fight for survival, if not for lack of adequate funds, for lack of personnel. These used to be the items that brought everyone closer together. There used to be the things that would make conversation. What has happened? The problem is one of priorities. It would seem that UCLA life has slipped from the top five. It used to be that when one opened a yearbook, the fun came from the fact that you knew most of those pictured in the book. Unfortunately, this cannot be said for any of the recent UCLA yearbooks. It is for this reason that the editors of this year ' s book have decided to put together a second yearbook in addition to the more traditional one. In this second book you will recognize many of the old friends that you grew up with. We believe that these old friends are very much a part of the way most of us think now. These are people who we met every day after school or friends we saw at the ballpark. In any case these are our friends and if you think about it, you really can ' t ignore them . . .