Two things are often certain for the Associated Students Union: losses and failed food outlets. ASUCLA announced last week that it expected to lose more than $1 million this year. Robert Williams, ASUCLA’s executive director, pointed towards increasing labor costs and lower textbook sales as the main reasons for the losses. To improve their budget, […]
Category Archives: Throwback Thursday
Throwback Thursday: Westwood and UCLA have always debated over housing in the Village
Last week, Bruins voiced their support for a project to increase student housing last week at a Westwood public hearing. The proposed project would add 6,900 beds to five different sites throughout Westwood to meet the demands of student enrollment and extend housing guarantees for undergraduates. Westwood residents and property owners, on the other hand, […]
Throwback Thursday: UCLA could have been home to oil wells
This post was updated Sept. 28 at 2:47 p.m. UCLA welcomed thousands of families to move-in weekend last week. Students and visitors took in the lush green hills that run alongside Bruin Walk, the dominating, brick-laced architecture of buildings like Royce Hall and Powell Library and the readily visible blue-and-gold pride of Westwood’s largest institution. […]
The Quad: 100 years ago, UCLA professors organized senior send-off for students
Remember that time your chemistry professor partied with you? Yeah, neither do I. One hundred years ago, however, graduating seniors didn’t just have the privilege of attending parties with their professors; they had the privilege of attending parties organized by the professors themselves. Rewind back a century: UCLA was a mere teacher’s education school called […]
Throwback Thursday: The humble beginnings of the John Wooden Center
A watershed moment occurred 34 years ago at UCLA, at least for us gym junkies: the John Wooden Center officially opened to the public. On May 2, 1983, the Cultural and Recreational Affairs Department ran a full-page advertisement for the newly opened center with twelve general questions students might have about the Wooden Center. The […]
Throwback Thursday: The hazy story of Bruin Libertarians’ marijuana-smoking event ‘Hemp Fest’
Twenty years ago, a cloud of marijuana smoke lingered above the steps of Kerckhoff Hall as students enjoyed the warm sunlight and shared an abundance of pot. The occasion: Bruin Libertarians was sponsoring a smoking event called “Hemp Fest” for weed enthusiasts on campus. On April 23, 1997, the Daily Bruin, which was still in […]
Throwback Thursday: The page-turning process of selecting The Bruin’s 2000-2001 editor staff
UCLA’s unofficial journalism school officially finished its spring turnover this week. Emails were sent, cries of joys were expressed and Kerckhoff 118’s new tribal leaders were announced with pomp and circumstance. That’s right, the Daily Bruin’s new editorial staff was announced this week. Everyone from the five assistant News editors to the lone assistant Blogging […]