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

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tion of a complex idea is a simple thought, and the foundation of a complex institution is a simple plan. For the campus designers, placing a collection of very different people in- to a unified setting to achieve an at- mosphere conducive to learning was the simple plan from which the foun- dation was laid to create UCLA. When again, that astute bypasser

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structures. From these, all else is built and the resulting composition is what we call UCLA. To say that all we experience on this vast campus can be summed up by two little words may seem daring and inane, yet when the core of any similarly grand-scaled project is breached, there can usually be found a similarly simple basis. The founda- tion of a con thought, and complex i for the collection of v, to a unified mospnere con the was laid again.

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takes a stroll along the paths and pavements that wind their way through every nook and cranny of this campus, from the north to the south, to the east and to the west, he will see things about this cam- pus that he has never noticed before. Maybe it will be the birds in the trees, or maybe the small gather- ing of students around a table conversing on topics of world interest, or maybe just the pride in so- meone ' s face as he, too, discovers some new facet of his world. But whatever it is, he will know that it is part of what makes UCLA the campus that it is. And it is the hope and aim of this book to do that small favor for you. 12 foreword