Friday, February 6, 1998
Bruin Walk turning into ‘catwalk’ for students
FASHION
By Carol McKay
Daily Bruin Staff
High heels, ties and fake nails. Lots of people do it, standing
in front of the mirror twice as long as the rest of us, braving the
steep hills and deep puddles just to look good.
But why do they do it? Why is Bruin Walk nicknamed "Bruin
Catwalk" by the casual majority?
"I’ve thought about this before. To a certain extent, it’s an
insecurity. … If you’re that worried about how you look, you must
not have a lot of self-confidence."
Jim Culbertson
First-year
Civil engineering
"I’m one of those people. I wear a suit and tie to class every
day. It puts me into the right mode. When I was working, I wore
those clothes, so I put on those clothes now to get me into a mode
of productivity."
Jason Fisher
Second-year
Political science
"We’re in Los Angeles. I don’t understand it either."
Stephanie Kobayashi
Third-year
Material science and engineering
"I’ve been asking myself that same question ever since I got
here. Maybe they try to get more attention that way."
Yauvana Venkataraman
First-year
Engineering
"For some people, it’s a status thing. If their friends dress
up, they feel pressure to also. My friends don’t, so I wake up five
minutes before class and go to campus in my sweats."
Naseem Sayani
First-year
Business economics
"It’s ’cause we’re in college. This place is like a city. In the
music department, people wear some funky clothes. Everybody’s just
chillin’. It’s an individuality thing."
Josh Clay
First-year
Ethnomusicology
"I don’t think people actually do dress up in South Campus."
Brad Chapin
Fourth-year
Microbiology and
molecular genetics