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

Page 25 text:

COLLEGE LIFE 21

Page 24 text:

Mary was taking a history class that seriously qestioned tradition, and she was very excited about it. She wouldn ' t let up on us about what our traditions were, but no one could think of any except the ones we ' ve all formed here at UCLA. Rivalry between us and USC. They say that sports control aggression, but whoever they are, they ' ve never seen 30,000 students yelling, Destroy ' em, kill ' em! Lines. There are lines everywhere at every time of day, and for anything and everything. Lines for books. Lines for check cashing. Lines for priority tickets. Lines for the registrar. Lines for the computer. Dead Body Outlines. The story goes that back in the days when UCLA was a fledgling university, and professors had to prove their worth by being REALLY tough, students were forced to put an end to the tedium of midterms and papers by jumping off the top of Bunche Hall. Now, in memorium to the pain of tests, papers, and the most horrible nemesis, Murphy Hall, around midterms and finals, chalk figures are ' drawn by aspirin g artists upon the grounds and steps of Bunche Hall. Mardi Gras. Usually commencing in late April, the flavor of Mardi Gras with it ' s clowns, many balloons, games and costumes infects the whole campus. Begun in 1941 to benefit Unicamp, the University ' s summer camp for underprivileged children, the Mardi Gras is now one of the biggest events on campus. Spring Sing. Testing the musical variety and talent of UCLA students, students can compete in 7 categories for musical excellence. Started by the Phi Psi Fraternity in the forties, it soon became popular throughout the Greek system, and finally throughout the school. Held usually in May, Spring Sing is a musical extravaganza not easily forgotten. Yearbook. This year we break tradition. For many years the yearbook at UCLA was called Southern Campus. It was so named in the days when there were only two campuses; Berkeley, the northern one, and us, the southern one. Therefore, Sothern Campus. In recent years, however, Southern Campus became associated with the southern part of this campus (i.e. Boelter Hall, Young,) and was not representative of the campus as a whole. With a stroke of genius, it was renamed Bruin Life. So much for tradition. 20 COLLEGE LIFE

Page 26 text:

I heard only last year about Michael s success in New York, and it reminded me of that day that Karen was dozing in the lounge across from Kerckhoff, and Michael was studying at Powell and how odd we thought it was, later, when they talked about it, that they had been thinking about the same thing at the same time. History. Architecture. The beauty of those ugly gargoyles. We all loved Royce, Kinsey, Powell and Haines, of course, but they felt something special, something exciting about those old buildings that seemed to go beyond the rest of us. Through years and years of changing faces, from the war effort of the forties to the war resistance of the seventies, the buildings of UCLA remain immutable to time and change. The original buildings, Royce, Kinsey, Haines and Powell were originally the foundation of the campus, and modelled upon Italian Renaissance architecture.