Los Angeles is many things: big, bustling, cosmopolitan – and growing. One thing it’s not, however, is cheap. Anyone who lives in and around the City of Angels needs to dedicate a pretty significant portion of their paycheck to shelter. Home prices across the city remain ridiculously expensive, and it’s rare to find a home […]
Category Archives: Throwback Thursday
Throwback Thursday: How the 1994 Northridge earthquake affected UCLA
As I sat on the floor of my room in De Neve Holly on Monday night, I felt a tremble from the ground. There’s been a lot of construction happening since Holly flooded a couple of weeks ago, so I didn’t think too much of it. But then posts referencing an earthquake started popping up […]
Throwback Thursday: The medical benefits of LSD
It’s April 20, better known as the day everyone smokes a lot of weed. But today, we’re going to give attention to a different drug, one that was popular in the 1960s. A Daily Bruin article from 1967 describes how UCLA’s then-Neuropsychiatric Institute found that LSD may offer treatment for children suffering from child schizophrenia, […]
Throwback Thursday: Brewin’ up a Bruin Day
Prepare yourselves, Bruins. This weekend, thousands of bright-eyed, still-unbroken potential UCLA students and their families will descend upon our fair campus to gawk at Royce Hall, take pictures with the Bruin Bear statue, and maybe even commit the next four years of their lives to this university. Yes, it’s that time of year again. Saturday […]
Throwback Thursday: Expanding one’s mind through 1979’s Experimental College
If the university brochures and talking heads on TV are to be believed, college is a time for exploration and self-discovery. Indeed, UCLA has offered opportunities for students to challenge themselves and expand their intellectual horizons both in and outside the classroom. And then there was the UCLA Experimental College. A 1979 advertisement in the […]
Throwback Thursday: A tale of unwelcome furry friends in UCLA buildings
People often bring their dogs onto campus, and many students enjoy taking a break from their impending finals and projects (and Daily Bruin responsibilities) to pet them – myself included. But some other furry friends aren’t as welcome. A March 6, 2003, issue of the Daily Bruin reported that people had discovered rats living in […]
Throwback Thursday: A look into the campus fees that support students’ internet needs today
Winter quarter is coming to an end and you know what that means: time to finish paying up for student fees. Any currently enrolled Bruin can log onto MyUCLA, click on “Finances and Jobs” and click on their BruinBill account to be able to identify which student fees are applied to their enrollment that quarter. […]