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

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College will be the best years of your lite. That ' s supposed to be a positive statement? It was over before I knew it. And while I was there I didn ' t appreciate it. I came a naive, innocent, optimis- tic, 5 ' 3 girl. I saw racism, sexism, a starless sky, and poverty. I left an open-minded, sarcastic, skeptical, 5 ' 4 cynic. And that is a positive statement. From all the bad we saw in UCLA and LA, we gained good. From all the racial tension on campus we gained sensitivity and perspective. From all the white male dominated perspecitves shoved down our throats on campus we gained the ability to spit it right out. From all the conve- niences and laziness that polluted our bodies and our earth we gained inspiration to make things different for our children. For all the poverty that surrounded us we gained under- standing and compassion. But more than anything, what we learned from the problems that plagued our cam- pus and our city, was the knowledge that ignorance is bliss. Yeah, we could have gone to a small, private school in Iowa, with a lily-white student body, in a city of population 500, and with a sky filled with a million stars, but we didn ' t. So what were the best years of 1 t - i ' : - 1:1

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our lives all about? They were about frat row, pump up the volume! and what was that horrible smell?; Ackerman movies, and we all wish the seats were more comfortable; earthquakes; Kerckhoft iced cappucinos, searching for seats, ice cream, folk series, and soup in a boule; North Campus at noon, scam central; the Treehouse, instamatic grease; the Bomb Shelter, flies; campus Corner, the Green Gobbler; NOMMO;Together, and their oh-so- scandalous-vagina; Ha ' am; La Gente; Ten Percent; Al Talib; Bruin Walk, accostic; dorm life, now just what is in Fire Station casserole?; apartment life, washing dishes, eating pasta, pasta, pasta and top ramen on an exciting day; scooters, scooters, scooters; Sunset Rec, scam central; the Red Light Affair, who are these women?; sleeping till noon; USAC elections; the arts; the sciences; North vs. South; Homecoming Court, why do they have that anyway?; Free Speech Movement; football games, which I am convinced only alumni and Greeks attend; the enormous amount of Christian societies on campus; hair wraps; Mossimo vs. Stussy; blondes, fake and real; Birckenstocks; a white t-shirt, Girbaud jeans, and a black belt; lines, lines, lines; Coop pizza; Sak ' s; Tacos Tacos; Numero Uno ' s Monday night all-you-can-eat; Mongol ' s, packing the meat down; underground parties; Melrose; Hollywood; Santa Monica 3rd Street Promenade; Venice Beach; Zuma and Malibu; Beverly Hills and Bel-Air; roller blades; Tj; Stratton ' s; Yesterdays; falling in love for the first time; getting drunk; getting stoned (oh how shocking); the Doors; Janet Jackson; NWA; STUDS, which gets 80% of its contestants from UCLA; the Simpson ' s; Saturday Night Live; In Living Color; the media; image, image, image; Clarence Thomas; George Bush; becoming an indi- vidual; and finally, inside jokes. Hey, so this may seem very high schoolesque but give me a break, this is my second all-nighter in a row, and I ' m just doing this for my resume, and you ' re not going to read this anyway. If you are reading this you are either 1 ) on yearbook staff, 2) really bored, or 3) 80 years old. My point is that these were the best years of our lives, and for a lot of us they were only some of the best years of our lives, because what we gained from UCLA gave us direction and inspiration to create lives outside of UCLA void of racism, sexism, heterosexism, pollution, poverty, narrow-mindedness, and boredom. Artwork by E.|. Endler