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

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Let oil of us face the facts. The yearbook. that one time valuable instrument of memories is on its way to its own grave memory. It is true that the value of the yearbook is of its lowest point at the time of its purchase. But the longer it Is with you the more value it has. These days. very few people ore willing to experience the long-term joy that a yearbook is capable of giving. 1 was looking of the 1938 Southern Campus the other day and it was o highly unusual and amusing experience. When you look of a yearbook that old, you seem to acquire a flavor of the era, even though it was before your time. You can see how the rapidly changing modes of dress looked at that juncture. You con see how minute the campus was in comparison with today ' s sprawling university. You con see when the word apathy was hardly used because it couldn ' t be properly applied to any section of the campus. If you were interested in sports you could look up players Shot yov used to read about and ask yourself where hove they gone. And if you were going to school in 1938 you would have the opportunity to see how you looked (provided of course that you were in the book). As the old cliche goes: you ' ve come a long way. baby. This year as in years past. the yearbook staff is en- deavoring to bring to all in- terested parties photographic and journalistic chronicle of the 1972.73 school year. You may even want to look at if in this light. For many people. the yearbook is the only way to recall all those events and all those good times that you never par- ticipated in. Didn ' t your mother ever tell you that you were supposed to have fun in college because you were going to have to support yourself and oil other hanger ' s on for the rest of your if e

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People alwaysseem to be complaining about being known only as a series of letters and numbers. Of course these people would be the first to tell you of their fate as well as who they really are. A camera was provided with remote control for self• portraits and people were given the op portunity to describe their own uniqueness in words and photographs. I eat nothing but chocolate yogurt. Vulnerable ond I miss my mom my and daddy. Wanna cookie? Show me the way to the nearest lobotomy. 6