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Daily Bruin
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Associated Students UCLA Communications Board
Founded 1919
Headquarters 308 Westwood Plaza
118 Kerckhoff Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: www.dailybruin.com

The Daily Bruin (also known as The Bruin) is the student newspaper at the University of California, Los Angeles. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. Broadsheet is the largest of the various Newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages (typically 22 inches or more Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West A student newspaper is a Newspaper run by Students of a University, High school, Middle school, or other school The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United When classes are in session, it publishes Monday through Friday during the school year and once a week on Mondays in the summer quarter. The current editor is Anthony Pesce.

It is overseen by the ASUCLA Communications Board, which sets policies for The Bruin and other campus communications media.

Contents

History

Nomenclature and Frequency of Publication

The Daily Bruin was preceded by the weekly Normal Outlook on the campus of UCLA's predecessor, the Los Angeles State Normal School, from 1910 through 1918 or 1919 (the records are incomplete).

Upon the establishment in fall 1919 of the Southern Branch of the University of California, as UCLA was first known, the twice-weekly Cub Californian was first issued on Sept. 29, 1919. Its name was changed to the California Grizzly with the issue of March 21, 1924, and on September 13, 1925 it began to publish five days a week.

On October 22, 1926, the newspaper became known as the California Daily Bruin. During World War II it reduced its publication frequency to three times a week under the title California Bruin, reverting to a daily publication at war's end. On April 2, 1948, it made the final switch — to UCLA Daily Bruin.

Governance

The newspaper since 1919 has generally been under control of the student organization now known as the Associated Students of UCLA, or ASUCLA, although during the summer sessions of the 1920s and 1930s "the newspapers were used as laboratory papers for journalism classes, with financial support coming directly from the University. " In the 1950s the Summer Bruin was again taken over by the Administration, and '"controversial social issues" were banned from print during the summers[1].

Between 1919 and 1955 the Associated Students was considered the publisher of the Daily Bruin, sometimes directly under the student council and sometimes with the interposition of a Publications Board composed mostly of students, with representation of alumni and administration. Editors were named by the student council. This system resulted in frequent political struggles between the staff (which nominated candidates for the key editorial positions) and the student council.

During the height of the McCarthy era, with the newspaper staff being accused of Communist leanings, the administration in 1955 revised the governance of the paper and instituted a system whereby the student body itself elected the editor (see below). "Editors had to run for elective office just like politicians, and the newspaper was closely controlled by the [student] Council," wrote William C. Ackerman, the ASUCLA graduate administrator[2].

The practice of student election of editors ended in 1964 with the establishment of the ASUCLA Communications Board, a student-led organization that selects the editors of the Bruin as well as the editors for the other seven newsmagazines[3].

A non-student general manager has administrative responsibility for the media, while day-to-day editorial operations are under the control of student staffs.

Hell's Bells

In 1926, editor John F. Cohee was expelled from school by Ernest Carroll Moore, the campus administrator and director, for what Moore called "certain indecent statements which affront the good name of the women of the University. " These were apparently a tongue-in-cheek "report" that some sorority women had been seen cavorting nude in the Pacific Ocean surf.

This article was included in a twice-yearly burlesque edition of the Daily Bruin known as Hell's Bells. (Cohee transferred to the Berkeley campus and was graduated there in 1927. He later went on to become a professional reporter[4]. )

Three years later Director Moore suspended 14 students for publishing in the Jan. 23, 1929, issue of Hell's Bells "the filthiest and most indecent piece of printed matter that any of us has ever seen. " Some of those students were later reinstated. That was the last issue of Hell's Bells. [5]

1954 Protest and Student Election of Editors

On Dec. 15, 1954, the editor of the Daily Bruin and a group of 250 students demonstrated against administrative action that required the newspaper to adopt a constitution "because it would otherwise be operating 'under sufferance and illegally. '" Dean of Student Milton E. Hahn had sent a memorandum to Chancellor Raymond B. Allen on Dec. 7. 1954, "after a preparation period of almost two years. "[6] He wrote:

For twenty years there has been no commonly accepted policy regarding the student publications at U. C. L. A. The Bruin has been the chief problem. It has been a prime target for Marxist groups which, at times, have had almost complete control.

"We have gathered here for the mock funeral of The Daily Bruin as a free newspaper," said editor Martin McReynolds. "The Bruin is not actually dead yet, but on the students' action will depend whether it will live or die. "[6] The response was sparked by the actions of the UCLA administration in the past few years. During the summer of 1954, Dean Hahn proceeded in his attempt to bring about a more "responsible" Bruin. Eventually, on Nov. 23, 1954, President Sproul granted approval by telegram for a new student-election plan for the Daily Bruin. The Bruin was not informed of any of the changes to the editorial structure, though editor McReynolds caught word of the plan and wrote an editorial on Dec. 8, stating that "Someone, probably the Administration, has been planning this change for at least six weeks. The planning has all been kept secret from The Daily Bruin and the students at large. "[6] Dec. 8 was the same day Dean Hahn submitted the plan to the Student Council.

There were to be student elections for editor, who would name his own editorial board, subject to approval by the Student Council and veto by the Administration. Because of lack of time, elections would not be held in the spring semester, but an editorial board would be chosen by a two-man committee composed of Student Body President Skip Byrne and an Administration representative. [6]

In addition to this limitation, the plan required that:

3,004 signatures, representing one-fifth of the student body, were collected for a petition to be sent to President Sproul to retract the plan. The number of signatures was about a thousand more than the number of student who voted in the preceding ASUCLA election. [6]

Loud Bark and Curious Eyes states that Hahn

. . . asserted in an unpublicized memo to Allen that it was a "local matter" for UCLA authorities alone to decide, though he did not mention the series of memoranda in the Berkeley office nor his own telegram of Nov. 23.

The Bruin staff nominated six candidates to become editors the following year, but all six were rejected by the selection committee appointed to decide on the new editors. Marty Sklar was the first student elected to the position of editor at the Daily Bruin.

Convergence Effort

In 2006, the Daily Bruin merged with Bruin News 29, the campus television news program, in an effort to converge the media at UCLA Student Media. Members of the Bruin News 29 staff joined The Bruin as producers of DBTV (an acronym for "Daily Bruin Television").

The DBTV staff works with the other Bruin section editors to develop video content to supplement the print edition of the Daily Bruin. DBTV also works on its own projects, which are to be posted on the Bruin's Web site.

DBTV clips are accessible through the Daily Bruin Web Site, at [dailybruin. com]. Many are embedded within stories, while others stand on their own.

The newspaper unveiled a redesigned dailybruin. com on February 4, 2007.

Daily Bruin Television relaunched broadcast news on April 12, 2007. DBTV airs a weekly newscast on Thursday nights, as well as a sports show on Monday nights. Both programs air at 7 p. m. on campus channel 29, and thereafter on [dailybruin. com].

Editors

1910-1955

NORMAL OUTLOOK

CUB CALIFORNIAN

CALIFORNIA GRIZZLY

BRUIN

See the list, complete with external links, at http://www.ulwaf.com/Daily-Bruin-History/index03.html#Anchor-EDITORS-23240

1956 and after

Awards and Recognition

The Bruin has been recognized by several journalism organizations as one of the best daily collegiate newspapers in the nation. Edina Lekovic is the Communications Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council and frequently acts as a national spokesperson for the American Muslim community to media outlets

2008

  • First Place, Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper
  • First Place, Kenneth Robinson, Emily Jaffe, Yu Jiang Tham & Edward Truong, Photo Illustration, "Dollar Tree"
  • First Place, Michael Chen, Sports Photography, "Photo of Jason Leopoldo"
  • Second Place, Robert Faturechi, In-Depth Reporting, “Donations Influence Admissions”
  • Third Place, Anthony Presce & Julia Erlandson, General News Reporting, “A Closer Look: Admissions”
  • First Place, Best Four-year College Daily
  • Third Place, Interactive Element

2007

  • Third Place, Bruin reporter Nancy Su, General News Reporting, “UC to divest from Sudan”
  • Third Place, Bruin staff Alex Hoffman, Editorial Cartooning

2006

2005

2004

2003

Notable Daily Bruin alumni

Current (2008-2009) Editorial Senior Staff

Notes

  1. ^ Garrigues. Steve Hartman (born July 4, 1958 in Hollywood, California) is currently the co-host of the Loose Cannons sports talk show on Shrek the Third, released 6 years after the first ''Shrek'' and 3 years after the second ''Shrek'', is a 2007 Animated film, and the "Thirty-five years of Ads, Circulation, Cubs, Managers, Summers, Banquets, and 'Society,'" in Loud Bark and Curious Eyes: A History of the UCLA Daily Bruin, 1919-1955. Retrieved on 2007-04-07. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in Jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor
  2. ^ Ackerman, William C. (1969). My Fifty Year Love-in at UCLA. Los Angeles: Fasion Press. ISBN 978-0865572997.  
  3. ^ Filsuf,Darius (2005). Daily Bruin. UCLA in the 1960s. Retrieved on 2007-04-07. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in Jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor
  4. ^ Berger, Egen (2002-12-20). See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 69 - Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor. 1927 Blue & Gold. Katpher Research. Retrieved on 2007-04-07. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in Jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor
  5. ^ Garrigues. Campus Humor: The Safety Valve. Retrieved on 2007-04-07. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in Jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor
  6. ^ a b c d e Garrigues. The 'Death' of the Daily Bruin: Part 1. Retrieved on 2007-04-07. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in Jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor

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