Meet the “pimp” whose work was so successful it inspired a South Park episode.
Scenario: Last summer James O’Keefe and his accomplice Hannah Giles walked into several offices of ACORN, a left-leaning poverty organization group, asking if they would help him set up a brothel. He had a hidden camera and a tape recorder. [...]
Fiefdom: $3.8 million
Soapbox: Endless Reforendums
Offense: Benefitting the few at the expense of the many
Question: So…can I get a scholarship too?
In the March 2009 issue of The Bruin Standard, our Academian Nut was described as being “like the peanut” of the bunch. For this edition of our feature, we ask you to turn to the whole bag [...]
For this particular edition of the Academian Nut, we will step away from the political and social in favor of the bizarre. Allow me to introduce Dr. John May of the Geography department. He teaches Geography 3: Cultural Geography, which is designed to explore “key concepts of space, place, and landscape as these have shaped [...]
Suzy Lim is a second-year neuroscience student, a member of UCLA’s Den and an avid tennis player.
She also happens to be a Bruin Daily enthusiast.
“It helps me by telling me what the weather is,” Suzy describes, as she sips a vanilla latte in Kerckhoff, her favorite coffee shop. “That way I know what to wear [...]
Well hello students. This is your insolvent newspaper, Bruin Daily. We’ve taken out this front-page ad to give you the “heads up” about a problem you’re going to fix. We have got ourselves in a major-league pickle. A real humdinger if you don’t mind me saying. It’s that we don’t make enough money in ads [...]
Poor Daily Bruin. Once so pretty, once so proud.
So pretty, they got a $275,000 grant from the Knight Foundation just last May. So proud, they boasted their independence and self-sufficiency at every chance. So proud of their pride, they would parade their nasal, bureaucratic worship of the Society of Professional Journalists ethics code, then smugly [...]
Because if we can’t have the presidency from 1985 back, we might as well settle for the year’s music. Stay tuned for our upcoming hit Got a Bad Case of Taxing You. As a side note to Mr. Robert Palmer: Please don’t sue us.
While probably the nicest of all Academian Nuts, Professor Peter Sellars is definitely half-cracked. Despite the friendly interior, when pressed he does not seem to be able to separate logic from his emotional political beliefs. This limits his capacity for to teach us with reason.
As a professor in the World Arts and Cultures department, appropriately [...]
Fiefdom: Professor in Geography since 1980
Soapbox: Geography 5: People and the Earth’s Ecosystems
Offense: Unrelenting use of class time for his ideology
Question: Can he also imitate Pelosi in a falsetto?
The Bruin Standard recognizes that academian nuts come in many varieties. Professor Thomas Gillespie is like the peanut. Once you get past the exterior shell the true [...]
The Bruin Standard applauds Professor Eugene Victor Wolfenstein for a job well done. Each issue The Bruin Standard shames a professor who can’t teach without attempting to indoctrinate his students or dwell on his own speculations (instead of the material which he is supposed to teach). In contrast, Professor Wolfenstein brilliantly presents material without unnecessary [...]
Fiefdom: Lecturer in Afro-American Studies since 1980
Soapbox: Comm 176, “Visual Communication and Advocacy”
Offense: Unrelenting use of class time for his ideology
Question: Will he cover The Bruin Standard in his class?
The Bruin Standard almost hesitates to profile Paul Von Blum, a senior lecturer who is teaching
Communication Studies 176: Visual Communication and Social Advocacy this quarter. The [...]