Throwback Thursdays are our chance to reflect on past events on or near campus and relate them to the present day. Each week, we showcase and analyze an old article from the Daily Bruin archives in an effort to chronicle the campus’ history. Over the weekend, UCLA’s football team suffered a disappointing loss to our […]
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Throwback Tuesday: Former Daily Bruin staffer welcomes son, remembers newspaper proposal
Throwback Thursdays are our chance to reflect on past events on or near campus and relate them to the present day. Each week, we showcase and analyze an old article from the Daily Bruin archives in an effort to chronicle the campus’ history. In an alternate universe, students killing time before St. Patrick’s Day shenanigans […]
Throwback Thursday: Break out the cake, ASUCLA to celebrate 98th birthday
Throwback Thursdays are our chance to reflect on past events on or near campus and relate them to the present day. Each week, we showcase and analyze an old article from the Daily Bruin archives in an effort to chronicle the campus’ history. Turkey season is ripe in the air. Actually, I’m vegetarian, so tofurkey […]
Throwback Thursday: The Bel Air fire of 1961
Throwback Thursdays are our chance to reflect on past events on or near campus and relate them to the present day. Each week, we showcase and analyze an old article from the Daily Bruin archives in an effort to chronicle the campus’ history. Fires ravaged Northern California and Orange County earlier this year, destroying thousands […]
Throwback Thursday: UC presidential expenses have always ruffled feathers
Midterm stress is in the air, and the cortisol-powered hustle and bustle is readily palpable. Week five of fall quarter has some students frantically cramming for exams and others hoping their classes get cancelled by some fortuitous fate – wishful thinking, to say the least. UCLA cancelling classes wasn’t always far-fetched. Our predecessors from 1984 […]
Throwback Thursday: UCLA Housing was unrecognizably strict, petty in the 1960s
Joe Bruin had a midterm and decided to study all night. The chair in his dorm room seemed uncomfortable, so he borrowed one from his floor lounge. The next morning, he took his exam and passed. He was also fined $2 for removing the chair. If this sounds like UCLA from an alternate universe, it’s […]
Throwback Thursday: The history of the UCLA-Stanford feud, featuring Daily Bruin Opinion
If the Daily Bruin’s Opinion page ever seems to lack that entertaining storytelling you’re looking for, fear not: Our brethren from the 1950s have you covered. The Daily Bruin Opinion page took it upon itself on Oct. 20, 1950 to extensively cover a big homecoming football game between UCLA and Stanford University. This game, according […]