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

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called El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de However, that name was too long for driver ' s licenses, so it was shortened to Los Angeles. But even that name was too long for some of the intellectual whizz-bos, so again the name was shortened to simply, LA. We call it home. We call it a nice place to be from. We call it things we can not print. Whatever you call it, this place has a profound effect on all those who enter its polyester gates and travel its neon-acrylic streets. Some want never to leave. Some hope never to return. A few get lost on the freeways. Three people were abducted by UFOs. What a great place to go to college and drink beer! Look at those mountains, look at those trees,...looks like another perfect day. I LOVE LA!!! 8 INTRO

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I LOVE UCLA Just what is UCLA? A tourist for the Japanese? A haven for athletes dreaming of stardom? Is it just another four letter word? Unobtrusively placed in the hills of a college community that ' s just quivering in anticipation of Friday and Saturday nights, UCLA boasts a society where the mopeds outnumber the students, the jocks outnumber the mopeds, and the squirrels the jocks. Here, cultural material often closely resembles the stuff with which petri dishes are filled; sacred places of worship the Student Union Game Room, the Cooperage, and the Weight Room at the Wooden Center; the average student has about as much enthusiasm as damp sweat-socks. Sure, most Bruins just go through the system without a second thought; so many people hate to upset the system. It ' s cool. Still, there is something about this campus that attracts and holds its student community. Maybe it ' s the beauty of the campus itself; or the gorgeous people; or the $1 movie nights at the Grand Ballroom; or Boelter Hall. UCLA has everything: Apple Computers, Bear Wear, Community Service Dorm Food, Egg-Heads,