Alumnus reflects on first impressions that belied scholar’s warm demeanorMany of us old English majors who attended UCLA in the mid-to-late 1940s remember Professor Majl Ewing with a mixture of impressions: fear (he could be a terror in the lecture room), negativity, indifference, or even warmth, as in my case. Professor Majl Ewing, sometimes chairman […]
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A Bruin reflects on basketball, buildings, beats and brotherly love
Sunday, June 9, 1996 UCLA may be great, but there’s room for some improvement Well, once again I bid my fellow Bruins farewell. Summer awaits, and finals are pressing. As I ride off into the sunset with the title of Mr. Black UCLA and the knowledge that my school won a national championship in basketball, […]
Ethnic graduations essential to celebrate diversity and solidarity
Sunday, June 9, 1996 Ceremonies honor each culture, past and present I took my graduation pictures a few weeks ago with a kente stole draped over my gown. My announcements have an African logo on the cover. On June 15, 15 of my loved ones will watch me receive my diploma as I walk in […]
Newest UCLA grads speak out on Bruin life
Sunday, June 9, 1996 Jonah Stein, fifth-year English student What was the best part about being a student at UCLA? The national championship in Seattle was up there, in addition to fun things like riots, quakes and fires. You give up small classes and a more personal atmosphere for a team that goes to the […]
Graduation ’96: Alumni Association fund raising, or just a day to snooze
Sunday, June 9, 1996 Beer King leaves college behind for career down under Well, the big day approaches: June 16, my long-awaited and sometimes uncertain graduation day. The day my parents have been looking forward to for 24 long years. The day they cast off their Brian shackles and send me into adulthood. Of course, […]
A thank you for parental love, support in school and beyond
Sunday, June 9, 1996 Farewell to UCLA sparks climb to independence When I remember kindergarten, one of the first images that comes to mind is coloring an 8 1Ž2-inch-by-11-inch picture of grapes for a booklet about the color purple. We did a book for each color that year, but the memory of those grapes is […]
The ins and outs of writing for the newspaper
Thursday, June 6, 1996 It’s not all fun and games in the column business I hate the information superhighway. I’m driving on it with no maps, no AAA, in a ’73 Dodge Colt, while everyone around me is speeding by in a ’97 Lexus. Our world’s communication systems were so much easier back in the […]