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

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A daring fan dresses up in a Super Bruin costume. Costumes were not a common sight, but they always demonstrated great enthusiasm. Joe Bruin mingles with fans during the game. The talented mascot kept spirits high with tlieir antics and energy at each game. Band director Gordon Henderson conducts fight songs and music through the night. The band performed at every game, entertaining crowds and taunting the opposition. 26 EVENTS

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Oefinit By Hellen Lee M ri Bruins participated in a week filled with festivities ] inil( ' Being a Bniin never felt as real as it did during Beat ' SC Week. All around campus, our Bruin spirits soared as we bashed USC in eveiy way possible. With only a week left before our impending football game, the campus came alive with acti ities that stirred our pride and ignited our hatred for those cross-town private school kids. For decades, Beat ' SC Week has remained unchanged. It has simply been a litde watered down since the days when UCLA students used to paint Tommy Trojan a Bruin blue and when Brains used to clutter the USC campus with massive amounts of Trojan condoms. Yet ■ ' Re enge was sdll Bruin in the year 2000, as Beat ' SC Week united UCLA in USC hatred once again. After months of preparation, the Student Alumni Association ' s (SAA) campus spirit committee put on a week ' s worth of both seniceable and fiercely vengeful acti aties. On Monday, November 13, a crowd gathered around a freshly donated car in Bruin Plaza while listening to the tunes of our local KROQ station playing on stage. This car was the victim of our Bioiin pride, as we participated in our annual Car Smash. The car was painted a despised red with anti-USC messages spraved relentlessly ' on it. As the crowd stood arovmd and cheered on their fellow Bruins, students took turns smashing the car to pieces wth a sledgehammer This e ' ent caused contro ' ersv as some people thought that the event was too xdolent, but Beat ' SC week was not all simply vengeance. On Tuesday, we were simultaneously good citizens and cunning Brains as we tried our hardest to Get the Red Out. UCLA and USC participated in a blood dri ' e to donate as many pints of blood as possible. Although we lost to USC by a mere eleven pints, both USC and UCLA were able to donate thousands of pints to the shortage of During the bonfire. Tommy Trojan is engulfed in flames. Burning use ' s mascot was one of tfie big events during the fun-filled week. blood in our region. We also became almost sinister as we promoted our Bruin piide. While earning aroimd beat-up Trojan oodoo dolls, we also participated in the burning of Tommy Trojan at the Beat ' SC rally on the Wednesday night before the big game. About a thousand people gathered as we watched past football victoiy videos and screamed our favorite cheers with fierce pride. Joining the UCLA Band, Spirit Squad, football players and coaches, we watched Tommy Trojan explode into flames as it conctn-rently fired up our spitits. To our wallets ' delights, Bruin Night Out followed that Thursday ' night. Many restaurants provided discounts at Westwood Village to UCLA students. Brimming with Bruins, the hot spot was Baja Fresh where thev offered food at an amazing 50% off. Beat ' SC week came to a close wth our annual carnival which was shared by students, alumni, and families alike. Packed with tons of events from Pop the Trojan Condom to ferris wheels, to performances on stage, it was an amazingly fun and vibrant event. In conclusion of Beat ' $C week, first year physiological science student, Bridgette Rivas stated, I ' ve never expeiienced such famil) ' -like spiiit. The students here have this passion to defend the Bruin title and honor. I ve v ef eypermced 5 ac( fam - ke spirit, Ti e 5tMdent5 (here to defev d ( e bmm title,,, - Bridgette Rivas P 5 o oq ca Science l5t ijear BEAT ' SC WEEK 25

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I i By Ashleigh Lonson Bruins and Cardinals reminded fans how great football can be The 2000 UCLA Homecoming game against the Stanford Carclinals was not a game that will soon be forgotten. Exciting quarter followed exciting quarter as the teams fought mercilessly for victon ' . Tnily there was not a fan in the crowd who could have asked for more excitement or anxiety than there was in this one football game. The game began with a touchdovvm by Stanford. Right from the beginning, it promised to be a nerve-racking but great three hours of football. Attendance was high as fans from both schools anticipated a fantastic p. 1 . 1,1 • 1 Roberto Reves Ang fight, and thev certamlv wen- ■ ,. . , ' 1 n 1 iV 1- Students, friends and alumni gather not disappointed. By nali-time, , . ,■,.■:. ,, Y 1 1 r together in support of the tootball Stanford was aliead of UCLA. p ,j, „ Fans quickly grabbed hot dogs binding traditions at UCLA. only escalated as the Bruins extended a six- point lead to 27-14 midway through the third quarter on Cor ' Pans ' pass to Mike Seidman, reported AP sports writer John Nadel in die post-game recount. Tv-pical of UCLA football this year, the decision came down to the fourth quarter. As the temperature dropped in the Rose Bowl, spectators hastily threw on sweatshirts and hats, because they weren ' t going anywhere. Cold as it was, enthusiasts had their eyes glued to the field and dieir hearts in their mouths as the clock counted down seconds in the last quarter of the game. Nadel went on to that, Pans, who 16 of 27 passes and nachos before they hurried back to their seats, unwilling to miss a minute of this decisive battle. Athletic supporters to the end, the Half- time Show sponsored by UCLA included a tribute to all of the UCLA athletes who competed in the 2000 Olympic games in Sydney. Men and women of every sport, from Softball to track and field events, got a moment to revel in Bmin support as fans applauded and cheered their accomplishments as athletic representatives of UCLA and the U.S. at the world games. As the game resumed and the second half began, the crowd fired up for the rest of this nerve-racking confrontation. Enthusiastic fans went into overdrive as Bruin players moved closer and closer to actory. The excitement report completed with two interceptions, threw a 41-yard scoring pass to Freddie Mitchell with 6:58 remaining to give the Bruins the 37-28 lead, and as it turned out, enough points for the win. The victor ' was enough to qualify Bruins for a bowl game, despite our later disappointing losses we made to Texas to play in the Sun Bowl. Ending in a well fought victory for the Bmins, fans filed out of the Rose Bowl exc ited and relieved. The Stanford game had been a great one and UCLA students and supporters felt exliausted and ecstatic at the same time. Returning home, spectators and players alike felt the thrill of victory and the msh of having been a part of a great game in Bmin football history. HOMECOMING 27 i