Daily Bruin

UCLA announced Friday that it would not discipline or further investigate the student who released a controversial online video in which she complained about Asian students' behavior and mimicked an Asian language. But later in the day, the student, Alexandra Wallace, announced that she was withdrawing from UCLA because of death threats and because she had been "ostracized from an entire community. " In a statement released to the Daily Bruin, UCLA's student newspaper, she apologized for offending Asians and called the video a mistake.

UCLA announced Friday that it would not discipline or further investigate the student who released a controversial online video in which she complained about Asian students' behavior and mimicked an Asian language. But later in the day, the student, Alexandra Wallace, announced that she was withdrawing from UCLA because of death threats and because she had been "ostracized from an entire community. " In a statement released to the Daily Bruin, UCLA's student newspaper, she apologized for offending Asians and called the video a mistake.

It was a day for remembering. Remembering the flap in the '30s over compulsory ROTC, the furor in the '40s over racial discrimination in athletics, the communist-baiting of the '50s, the anti-apartheid protests of the '80s. . . . Former staffers of UCLA's Daily Bruin had gathered on campus to form a Daily Bruin Alumni Assn. It was a reunion that bridged 65 years. Irv Gottschalk, 79, assistant sports editor in 1936, came dressed in true Bruin blue from top to toe.

Stopped by to chat with the Heisman maker, Norm Chow , after listening to UCLA Coach Rick Neuheisel give yet another hilarious but hot-air news conference. The Bruins have lost four in a row, their quarterbacks haven't thrown a touchdown pass in a month and for the first time in nearly 20 years, UCLA is in danger of not getting a bowl bid in two consecutive years. And on the back page of the Daily Bruin on Monday, the headline read: "Neuheisel's team falling apart." I know how much closer the kids on campus are to the UCLA football players, so I asked Neuheisel whether the Daily Bruin was on to something.

So Jim Harrick says he is "very close" to knowing the rule. What is needed is a coach whose team is disciplined enough not to blow a 19-point lead. I've been a Bruin fan since 1946, when I covered sports for the Daily Bruin, and even John Wooden's predecessor, Wilbur Johns, would not have let one like this slip away. JOE BLEEDEN Los Angeles

UCLA's Communications Board will meet tonight to select an editor-in-chief of the Daily Bruin, the 20,000-circulation student-run newspaper that has been convulsed by internal strife for most of the past year. Three people who have worked for the newspaper have applied for the $500-a-month position: Nick Bucci, former features editor; William Rabkin, former editor-in-chief of the University of Washington newspaper, and Lynne Weil, editor of Blue Moon, the university's feature magazine.

William E. Forbes, head of his family's Southern California Music Co. and a UC regent during the turbulent campus protests of the 1960s, has died at the age of 93. Forbes died Saturday in Pasadena, his family said. The businessman and publicist joined the university's Board of Regents in 1959 in his capacity as president of the UCLA Alumni Assn. In 1962 he was named to a full 16-year term on the board by Gov. Pat Brown. During the free speech movement of the 1960s, which included anti-Vietnam War protests and disturbances on several campuses, Forbes headed a committee to examine causes behind the student unrest and ways to address it. He also helped develop UC Education Abroad programs and facilities at the Irvine, Santa Cruz, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Davis campuses.

Supplemental financial aid? The police log of UCLA's Daily Bruin newspaper reported the other day that "someone was seen collecting money out of a water fountain located at 300 Medical Plaza." The fountain sighting, comes on the heels, so to speak, of another Daily Bruin item about "a woman wearing a business suit [who] solicited sex from a passerby on Bruin Walk near Kerckhoff Hall." Escape from L.A.

It seems that loyal Daily Bruin writers Bill Plaschke and Chris Dufresne are disappointed that UCLA dropped out of the critical top two poll positions after narrowly escaping from Oregon and lowly Stanford. Perhaps this is not all bad, in that UCLA will be spared the annual embarrassment of only having a few hundred fans willing to spend money to attend out-of-town bowl games, and having to resort to begging for ticket welfare again from the Pac-10. These cheapskates apparently wouldn't even buy gas for the long trip to Pasadena for the last Rose Bowl, and didn't buy their allotment for that game, although the loyal Wisconsin fans, who exceeded their allotment, would gladly have bought them.

UCLA Coach Terry Donahue calls USC a "very, very good football team that has had some misfortunes." Those misfortunes are expected to continue today at the Coliseum in the 55th game of the crosstown rivalry. The Bruins (8-1-1 overall and 6-1 in the Pacific 10) have been playing confidently and consistently and would go to the Rose Bowl if they beat the Trojans (4-5 and 3-3).

A UCLA graduate is being honored with a Sunshine Award by the Society of Professional Journalists for a series of investigative stories that uncovered a scandal at the campus School of Dentistry. In the Daily Bruin, Robert Faturechi wrote that the orthodontics residency program's high admission standards were relaxed for children or relatives of donors who pledged hefty financial gifts, one as high as $1 million. The article said it was based on hundreds of pages of e-mails and internal documents.

Supplemental financial aid? The police log of UCLA's Daily Bruin newspaper reported the other day that "someone was seen collecting money out of a water fountain located at 300 Medical Plaza." The fountain sighting, comes on the heels, so to speak, of another Daily Bruin item about "a woman wearing a business suit [who] solicited sex from a passerby on Bruin Walk near Kerckhoff Hall." Escape from L.A.

Fight on, poor old SC! The Trojans have proved it's possible to lose respect while gaining victory. This "elite" football institution's celebration following the UCLA game shows just how far this program has slipped. Two bad teams, one bad game and USC celebrates as if it had just liberated Paris. If I were a player on either of those teams I would have run off the field as quickly as possible before somebody accused me of trying to impersonate a football player. Congratulations, USC. The streak is over.

William E. Forbes, head of his family's Southern California Music Co. and a UC regent during the turbulent campus protests of the 1960s, has died at the age of 93. Forbes died Saturday in Pasadena, his family said. The businessman and publicist joined the university's Board of Regents in 1959 in his capacity as president of the UCLA Alumni Assn. In 1962 he was named to a full 16-year term on the board by Gov. Pat Brown. During the free speech movement of the 1960s, which included anti-Vietnam War protests and disturbances on several campuses, Forbes headed a committee to examine causes behind the student unrest and ways to address it. He also helped develop UC Education Abroad programs and facilities at the Irvine, Santa Cruz, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Davis campuses.

It seems that loyal Daily Bruin writers Bill Plaschke and Chris Dufresne are disappointed that UCLA dropped out of the critical top two poll positions after narrowly escaping from Oregon and lowly Stanford. Perhaps this is not all bad, in that UCLA will be spared the annual embarrassment of only having a few hundred fans willing to spend money to attend out-of-town bowl games, and having to resort to begging for ticket welfare again from the Pac-10. These cheapskates apparently wouldn't even buy gas for the long trip to Pasadena for the last Rose Bowl, and didn't buy their allotment for that game, although the loyal Wisconsin fans, who exceeded their allotment, would gladly have bought them.

Everything you always wanted to know about UCLA, USC and the 58-game series that will be renewed Saturday in the Coliseum: You will get no argument that this is the greatest big-time intra-city football rivalry in America. In fact, it is one of only two still intact. The other is the annual mismatch between Houston and Rice. . . . To the winner goes the Victory Bell.

It was a day for remembering. Remembering the flap in the '30s over compulsory ROTC, the furor in the '40s over racial discrimination in athletics, the communist-baiting of the '50s, the anti-apartheid protests of the '80s. . . . Former staffers of UCLA's Daily Bruin had gathered on campus to form a Daily Bruin Alumni Assn. It was a reunion that bridged 65 years. Irv Gottschalk, 79, assistant sports editor in 1936, came dressed in true Bruin blue from top to toe.