To browse Academia. The history is divided into five stages: Founding and growth, ; coming of age, ; Depression years, ; wartime, , and the anticommunist crusades and the McCarthy period, Financial worries, club news and sports coverage were highlights of the period, during with the Cub Californian went from a weekly to a semiweekly.
The newspaper intensified its coverage of campus and world news during its professionalization in the late Twenties and its concomitant printing as a daily. The Thirties were years of Depression, preparation for war, and disillusion. The Bruin attacked senseless collegiate traditions, militarism, radicalism, reaction, and it opened its feature pages to writers of all opinions. During the Thirties the perennial struggles between the liberal Bruin and the conservative student council began. It did, however, continue its early interest in racial equality.
In the Forties and Fifties, a myth developed among California conservatives that the Bruin was controlled by Communists or radicals. In truth, the orientation of the Bruin was a free-thinking one. The myth was fostered by officials high in the University administration. This review evaluates Kenneth Joel Zogry's history of the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from its origins in the s through to the 21st century.
I conclude that the work provides an illuminating picture of changing trends in student culture and make some small recommendations on including more context about the how the campus student government evolved alongside the student paper. In the s, the Gay Student Union at UCLA began publishing a newsletter, the Gayzette, as a means to connect its membership and interested others, share information about campus and community happenings, and provide a space for queer cultural, political, and artistic expression.
A close analysis of extant issues alongside oral histories with early contributors, editors, and readers of the Gayzette provides a window onto how the Gayzette represented and documented a wider process of queer world-making at UCLA in the s, and what the documentary record does-and does not-represent about how that process unfolded.
