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

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(Be)coming a part If you were a new student, the year began early. The Adminis- tration ' s semi-annual fiasco (Registration) tested your stamina and judgment as to which line would move least slowly. Your feet were tired, and your spirit was crushed. Uni-Prep was designed to prepare you for this. It introduced you to the campus, its leaders, and Its traditions, but neglected to tell you about all of them! Though bewildered, you were im- pressed by the University ... its size, its personality. Its diversity. But at last you were a Bruin . . . and proud of It! The pains of registration were a llt+le easier this year since the administration scheduled pre-enrollment tor all English I -A classes. Perhops the biggest ordeal of them all was that mandatory physical exam. 19

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Innocents aboard It was Fall, 1964 . . . the end of your summer job, the last of those lazy days at the beach, the repacking of all your worldly possessions. Perhaps it meant a major move or just a different route to be taken daily on the bus. At any rate, it was back to school . . . and daily commuting from home, the move to on apartment, a dorm or for the new pledges, a House. For some it is the beginning . . . for others, the end of a long struggle. The curtain is being raised and the new season has begun. The UCLA con artists were out in full force at Uni-Prep. They were selling activities to the new UCLA students. If only they knew! Reol steok . . . not hamburger — the real drawing point of the Uni-Prep barbecue held Thursday night — brought together both old ond new friends. . .?•,.— .1 I w • ' Tafi 7 • ■ ' L ,!« » ■f ' T- ' 1

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If you rushed... Rush, 1964, was different. Beer busts and surfin ' bands, tea and candles; all the usual was there. Snow the guys and charnn the girls. Don ' t hotbox ... at least, don ' t get caught. Trips to T.J., little sisters, and quick Recs tor an unknown. It was all there, but it was different too. The Pledge ( It won ' t change a thing, but you ' d damn well better sign it. ) hod come to the big ' U ' , and as far as the administration was concerned, the Eleven Who Wouldn ' t, weren ' t. Two Panheilenics, and one Frot shouting hypocrits. Explanations at Uni-Prep and on the Row. In the dorms the word was that Greeks were either hypo- crits or bigots . . . and they probably beat small dogs too. But more important, what was next? You picked your house — you made your contacts, you screamed and kissed your sisters-to- be. But you couldn ' t take Rush for granted any more. The Year of the Pledge had come and gone. What was next? f - (