North Or South?
by Nestor on Jun 20, 2009 3:15 PM PDT
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PrintI have always wanted to ask this question here on BN. Now that we are in the middle of off season this seems like the perfect time.
If you are an alum or a current student you will get this question.
Are you from this side:
Photo Credit: brain stem (flickr)
or are you from this side?
Photo Credit: --Mark-- (flickr)
I was thinking about using Royce Hall for the question but that probably wouldn't have been too fair.
So let's hear it. Which side do you belong to? I have also put up a poll on this.
It will be very interesting to see how the responses shake out in this little (unofficial) UCLA community.
GO BRUINS.
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North and South
Classics and Pre-med
by podas okus Achilleus on Jun 20, 2009 3:28 PM PDT reply actions
Doh
Good point. I added two more options in the poll. “Both” for someone in your position and neither for those who are not students or alums.
Thanks Nestor
I have to add that I actually enjoyed being on North Campus while I tried to spend as little time as possible in South Campus…so slight edge to North Campus haha
by podas okus Achilleus on Jun 20, 2009 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
North and South as well
But History and Pre-med for me
by truebluebruin24 on Jun 20, 2009 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Deep South
Neuroscience baby =)
I still don't understand why little kids wear 'SC apparel when they come to UCLA on field trips... newsflash--you're not cool
by bruinbasketball on Jun 20, 2009 4:18 PM PDT reply actions
North, baby
And thanks to BN for bringing back another great UCLA members-only debate.
God, I miss those days.
Formerly UCLA Class of 86
I've been gone so long I couldn't remember which was which
Thanks for reminding me that Econ equates to North. I started as a math major, but quickly learned that I was better when answers were matters of opinion, and had no decimal points in them.
North
The Gypsy Wagon was the crappy food trailer that served the North Campus before the North Campus Student Center ever existed. It was right in front of the URL (now YRL).
Northside baby!
History with an Urban Studies emphasis
"when you've seen how big the world is, how can you make due with this?"
by silverlakebruin on Jun 20, 2009 4:30 PM PDT reply actions
South Campus all the Way!
I’m a Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biologist with a minor in Biomedical Research which by default makes me a premed. That’s right, my major has an acronym—MCDB.
South
Aerospace Engineering…spent way too much of my college time in Boelter.
South and aerospace engineering as well.
I can remember a quarter I had all four classes in Boelter. I had to do all my studying at Northern Lights that quarter to maintain an appreciation for the beauty of the UCLA campus and coeds.
Also loved the look of confusion on lost North campus majors when you had to explain that they were actually in the Math Sciences building and that Boelter was just down the hall in the SAME building.
by TrueBlueBlood on Jun 20, 2009 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions
NORTH
Poli Sci. Come on, North is where it’s at! How many non-Bruins would even recognize a south building? But, where does waiting in line at CTO fall? Spent many a day waiting in line for tix!
North
hell, i almost didnt recognize the building in the south campus photo…couldnt tell you the name of it, either
by jtthirtyfour on Jun 20, 2009 6:51 PM PDT up reply actions
south campus!
and electrical engineering.
by onedeterminedpanda on Jun 20, 2009 7:00 PM PDT reply actions
me too
oh ucla ee, good times… and still going
by maccabita4life on Jun 20, 2009 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions
How do we pick?
Are we dividing by geography, or are we dividing by subject matter? If subject matter what is the criteria? I have had many debates that I can go either way. My major involves numbers and theory, I have studied a form of physics, and my major is artistic and I have approached it from a psychological/sociological perspective.
South Campus
South campus rules yall…just kidding. North campus definitely has all of the hotties.
Sorry, you're on your own.
I’m blanking on most all of this. I can only assume I was studying too intently to be aware of these sorts of things.
Sorry responded to wrong thread
The Gypsy Wagon was the crappy food trailer that served the North Campus before the North Campus Student Center ever existed. It was right in front of the URL (now YRL).
South Campus
from the looks of the poll, we are severely outnumbered
North
Social sciences and splendid scenery.
by LowerEastSideBruin on Jun 20, 2009 10:20 PM PDT reply actions
South!
Longtime reader, this finally got me to create an account.
Anyway, Applied Mathematics major. The 9th floor of Boelter Hall is THE best spot on campus… other than Pauley, of course.
this North Campus alum
loves your username choice! Still get goosebumps thinking of being in the band singing Rover, and it’s been lots of years since then.
True North!
Film and Television, Melnitz Hall. There is no building north of Melnitz unless you count the Chancellor’s Mansion.
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. John Wooden
North and North
History/Spanish major, I think I had two whole classes in South campus my entire 4 years, and am heading back to North Campus for grad school next year!
Funny that you put up a pic of Powell for North campus. I never ever rented out a book from Powell, and have no idea where the books are even held. I was all about YRL.
slow down, look up
by Point Guard 08 on Jun 21, 2009 12:14 AM PDT reply actions
haha I blanked on the word
Loaned? Borrowed?
Wait.. checked out. Yeesh.
slow down, look up
by Point Guard 08 on Jun 21, 2009 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Well that was supposed to be me...sorry brother
North as well
by lil eg not cs on Jun 21, 2009 2:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Ultra North
English and Economics, even worked at the YRL when I was there for a bit
woo woo
North
Film School! Undergrad!
what up!
by thisismitchell on Jun 21, 2009 12:37 AM PDT reply actions
NORTHSIDE GUY HERE
i never went south of ACKERMAN UNION during my school days, and when on campus now, except fot the UCLA MEDICAL CENTER, i still have no idea what’s in those buildings…ROYCE and POWELL and the SCULPTURE GARDEN in the North campus were my sanctuaries…BRUIN WALK was my social center…as a HISTORY MAJOR why wouold i even step foot south of KERKOFF?
by bruincheerleader on Jun 21, 2009 5:06 AM PDT reply actions
South
but, just like most everybody, I had classes in buildings all over campus
Bob O. (Signholder #3)
South
French and journalism, and I worked at Powell Library, but I often strolled down to the bomb shelter for lunch.
South
Microbiology. I actually had a Shakespeare class deep in the bowels of Boelter, though; don’t know how that happened.
Definitely North
…including one of the great mickey courses of all time, Sports in American Life, in probably in the women’s gym building. Do any of the codgers remember Paul Tanner’s great Elements of Jazz course? Lew Alcindor (KAJ) was in that class with me. It was a big lecture hall, but I can’t remember where.
The two courses that were awesome on the Northside
The History of Italian Cinema (all I did was watched movies. Oh Toby, Kris and JR were in that class too IIRC).
Also, class on the History of Rock & Roll.
Then again, apparently on the Southside there was a class on porn (again not making this up). I never got to took it though. I was offered by the Nursing school IIRC.
I had the Jazz class and the other great mickey
California Geography.
Bob O. (Signholder #3)
I was in the first ever Sports in American Life class
PE 136, from Mrs. Bell. This was pretty much UCLA’s equivalent of Senora Ross, with two major differences. Mrs. Bell did not single out athletes for special treatment, she was just a very nice little old lady who hadn’t quite figured out how college kids could and would do things. (E.g., I had to do an oral report on sports during the medieval era, and naturally I forgot the assignment until the day I was supposed to give the report. So as I willed one foot in front of the other to the front of the room with my mind a total blank all of a sudden I remembered Robin Hood. There was my report – all about archery, and wrestling, and walking across a log and trying to knock a guy off into the stream, and camping and all kinds of things. I got an A on that well-researched report.) The other thing was that the really easy version of PE 136 lasted one semester. The second semester, when all of fraternity row enrolled, the chairman of the department changed things around, had sections and grad students as TA’s and the whole thing.
I didn’t take Jazz, but I did take Musical Cultures of the World. That was only a guaranteed B, so you could get off probation with it, but you couldn’t boost your GPA for grad school purposes.
I tried LIesure and Recreation in Contemporary Society, but that was actually a relatively hard class.
My favorite class was during 1970, I think, when we had the “Multiversity.” I took a class that was a combination history, econ, PE and something else class called “Baseball in American Society,” taught by George Hilton, specialiist in the Economics of Transportation. The first day of class the entire baseball team was there, but left en masse and dropped the class when when the prof explained what we were going to be doing. I was very strong on baseball, the econ part of the class was exactly the same as the economics of transportation (the prof thought the industries were parallel – boy was he wrong), and I was friends with Hilton outside the classroom. I got an A in the class, but found out later that he didn’t give me an A because we were friends, I actually got the lowest A. That remains my favorite class. I’m sure there’s nothing like it any more. We learned about the Curt Flood case, the Black Sox scandal, and lots of baseball minutiae. Hilton would not accept the concept that there was baseball “trivia” because he correctly believed that nothing about baseball was trivial. That was a great class.
North all the way
English major. I wanted to go in as communcation studies, but realized towards the end of my freshman year that wasn’t going to happen. I then thought about double majoring English and history, but then talked to an alum who did that, and told me to pick one or the other unless I wanted to spend all my free time reading. I figured I could do more with English, so that’s what I stuck with, but I’m still a big history buff.
Then I married a South guy (psychology).
North always
Psych to Econ to finally Sociology, now work in IT, go figure. I guess I really had some South in me, just didn’t know…
South
Not just South but you can see the lab I spent the last 5 of my ten years at UCLA in (4th floor of Molecular Biology Institiute). I was a Biochem Undergrad when it was a real major. And I was going to stay in grad school until we won a hoops championship. Thankyou Tyus Edney or I might still be a student.
South
Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology (MCDB for those of us too busy for full words)
North!
Sociology major. Once had all four classes in a quarter in Haines. Not the prettiest building inside, but it was great sitting outside and reading in between Royce and Powell by the water fountain. Except for that one time they were filming that terrible movie “Mafia” in front of Royce and security tried making me move because I was in their shot.
Enrolled in a summer session once that had a class in South campus. It was one of those strange buildings where you walk down the hall and you’re in a different building. I got lost going to the first class, was 15 minutes late, then dropped. Figured I didn’t need the headache of navigating my way around for a summer class. I ended up playing more ball at Wooden. Good times.
c/o '98
Go Bruins!
South
"Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees" —Emiliano Zapata
Math, but one who appreciated both inverted fountains and the art, living and otherwise, on the North side.
South with a touch of North
Psychobiology major and Classics minor
Should also say...
One quarter I had a Bio class at the southern tip of South Campus, then 10 minutes after that class ended, I had an Art History class at Dickson in North Campus. I had to haul a** that quarter.
by Kerckhoff405 on Jun 22, 2009 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Brings back memories...
I remember one quarter I had a Communications Studies class at Dickson in North Campus, then 10 min later my next class, Molecular Genetics, was at the southern edge of South Campus. Talking about bumping into a lot of people with “excuse me!” every Mon-Wed-Fri.
South
Bio/premed…didn’t wise up until after college…can I be an honorary North member now?
At least Nestor saw the light…ran away from South Campus as fast as those Bruin Walk squirrels…
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
Parties at URL and squirrel behavior across campus
Economics/business…there was far more economics than business content in that major, so as a matter of accuracy, I asked Murphy Hall to place the “economics” part first on my diploma. Will UCLA ever have a true “business” degree for undergrads?
Sometimes students spill over from one side of campus to the other. Lots of my biochem friends ventured north of Bruin Walk in the evening — when they finished talking about titrations during dinner at Dykstra, they’d exclaim, “Party at URL!,” grab their backpacks, and march to University Research Library for a night of hard-core studying.
In terms of geographic dynamics, the questions I’d like to see answered are, “How are the squirrels of north campus similar to, or different from, the squirrels of south campus?” and “To what can we attribute the differences?” Is it fair to say that south campus squirrels are grittier and more street-savvy by virtue of scrounging around for Bombshelter leftovers on the concrete plaza between Boelter and Young? Are north campus squirrels, frollicking across the Sculpture Garden, more relaxed and expressive?
North campus baby squirrels are undoubtedly smarter
In the north, you always see mama squirrels playing Mozart into their liittle squirrel tummies during their pregnancy.
Which explains
their fondness for the Ac-horn Concerti.
But, the squirrels of the south campus are at a distinct disadvantage: Their capacity for stashing acorns for the winter is limited by their pocket protectors.
NORTH.
Poli Sci undergrad, then Law School.
Something about the low rolling hills of the Sculpture Garden and coeds lounging on the grass between classes.
Those were the days…
MIM
"In this program your passion bucket must be full to play SC." -- CRN, to Dan Patrick, 1/2008
North Campus
is where it all started for UCLA! The original buildings, bridge, etc.
I only went to the South Campus for the burgers at the Bombshelter, plus that area reminds me of Cal’s Campus- kinda sterile.
I still can’t believe it took me about 30 minutes to get to my classes from the dorms/apartments.
by UCLA Championships Made Here on Jun 22, 2009 4:29 PM PDT reply actions
South Campus
with Chemical Engineering undergrad and grad.
It was a lot easier to get to than north campus :)
South
Psychobiology. Studied down in the “stacks” in the biomed library on those very hot days. Ate quite often at the Bombshelter.
North
Poli Sci.
North end squirrels are more artistic, know how to dance, and engage in lively political and social debate.
Love My Bruins
North
Oh how i miss those days…yes the north is known for its naps and scenery. Although i am a yankee (north side :P) after my first final taken at UCLA in stats i walked passed a med major and she was crying on the phone as she felt she bombed her test. Without eavesdropping it was understood she felt med school was no longer an option.
understandbly this negative experience kept me away from the south unless i had no other choice! i guess i didn’t miss much-LOL!
I have never seen
as many neurotic people as I have seen in my premed classes at UCLA. It was ridiculous. I remember one guy writing an article in the Daily Bruin about the fact that all he could think about was med school (as if it was a good thing). He mentioned how every time he ate a grapefruit, he was imagining himself doing a surgery. WTF!!! And yes, there were many tears shed when tests were bombed…pretty crazy…I doubt you ever saw that after an art history test…
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
I'm duly impressed by the commentary here
I haven’t seen a thread this long since basketball season. Lots of enthusiasm and nostalgia.
Humor a geezer. What’s constitutes the Mason-Dixon line? It seems to me that as you start walking south, the correct answers have more and more decimal places. That’s why I rarely went out the back door of Moore Hall. It was just too scary.
N v. S
I was south campus all the way (Neuroscience ‘02). My friends and I had a top ten list for ways you could tell if you were a north or south campus major. I can only remember #1 off the top of my head: "You know you’re a north campus major if your professors looks like they woke up five minutes ago. You know you’re a south campus major if your professor did just wake up five minutes ago."
Iteresting discussion
I didn’t realize all the social science folks considered themselves North campus. The way I remember it, “North” was the Artsies north of Bunche (well, the Music folks got a special gerrymander.) “South” was south of Ackerman, and in between was “Central” with the more generally well-rounded types.
Just the way I remember it. (I started out in Boelter, ended up in Dickson)
North
I’m a history/economics double major, though economics as a field is really half South Campus anyway because of all that damn math.
Bay Area fan going to UCLA.
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