Daily Bruin history

By 1922, the paper expanded to print twice a week.

A name change came a couple years later in March 1924, with the paper taking on the title of the California Grizzly, which would begin printing daily the following year.

13, 1925 it began to publish five days a week.

Three years later, Director Moore suspended 14 students for publishing the January 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.

The Daily Bruin first moved into Royce Hall, and eventually moved into an office on what is now the third floor of Kerckhoff Hall once the building opened in 1931.

On April 2, 1948, the name was changed to UCLA Daily Bruin.

In spring 1949 Jim Garst and Clancy Sigal were nominated by the Bruin staff as editor and managing editor.

The student council turned down the staff's nomination of Jerry Schlapik as editor for the spring 1951 term in favor of conservative Bob Strock, who was then deemed ineligible because of a low grade-point average.

Chancellor Raymond Allen backed the plan and UC President Robert Sproul approved it in November 1954.

Until 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.

For six years, beginning in 1956, candidates for editor in chief had to run campaigns to win a student body vote.

The choice for the latter position was Clancy Sigal, who would go on to become a famed novelist known for his 1962 memoir “Going Away.” Five editorial board members subsequently resigned and The Bruin’s staff went on strike for the summer.

The practice of student election of editors ended in 1963 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 and UCLA Radio.

May 1969 – In a decade well known for activism and progressive politics, UCLA was not excepted from student movements that had been sweeping the country.

May 1993 – Administrators’ hesitance to establish a Chicana/o studies department led to an occupation of the UCLA Faculty Center by 600 demonstrators, property damage and ultimately, a hunger strike.

October 1995 – Students at all nine UCs, including UCLA, protested an impending UC Board of Regents vote to ban affirmative action in university admissions and hiring. “More than 2,000” students blocked Wilshire Boulevard and 33 arrests were made, the Los Angeles Times reported at the time.

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Chancellor Charles Young eventually implemented a program, though the department was only formally established in 2005.

November 2006 – Before a University of Florida student cried out “Don’t tase me, bro!”, a phrase that became part of the popular lexicon, UCLA police unnecessarily stunned student Mostafa Tabatabainejad at Powell Library, presumably for resisting arrest.

November 2009 – The UC Regents chose UCLA to hold the meeting where they voted and passed a staggering 32 percent tuition increase.

In 2013, the Daily Bruin's publisher laid off most of its full-time employees, following more than a decade of consistently declining advertising revenues that reflected the national newspaper industry.

February 2014 – Bizarre and offensive fliers sent to Asian American studies centers at UCLA and USC spurred student groups to call attention to instances of discrimination faced by Asian Americans.

Data editor Neil Bedi launched The Stack, Daily Bruin's data journalism and newsroom tech blog, in March 2015.

In spring 2016, UCLA's student body voted in favor of the "Daily Bruin and Bruinwalk.com Referendum," which guaranteed student fees to support the Bruin as its print advertising revenues continue to decline.