Wednesday, 3/5/97
Letters to the editor
TV, radio sports: Over and out
I am writing this note while I should be listening to the UCLA
game on the radio, but I can’t.
I don’t live in the dark regions of the African jungle, nor am I
snowbound in Alaska. I am within 20 minutes of the university where
the game is now being played. The second-rate station that some
incompetent person in the UCLA athletic department sold the rights
to the games to cannot be heard in Woodland Hills on my radio.
Now my radio is not a 1902 crystal set, but one that brings in
San Francisco and Nevada stations clearly. It is very good at
bringing in USC games. In fact, that’s how I listened to the
UCLA-USC game last week.
Now that’s disgusting. I might also mention the second-rate
arrangement for TV. I can watch the USC game but not the UCLA game.
That’s bush.
Pardon me now. I am going to watch the USC game on TV. I might
get a score for UCLA’s game.
Edmund Stanley Batten, Ph.D.
Ad inserts litter
I just wanted to voice my concern about the ad inserts that have
been in the Daily Bruin for the last couple of days. I understand
that advertisements are the paper’s major source of revenue, but it
seems that there has to be an alternative to using these inserts,
such as larger printed ads in the newspaper itself. The major
purpose of these inserts, like that of any ad, is to attract the
reader’s attention, but unfortunately they do this by falling out
of the paper, usually to the ground.
Since students usually grab a copy of The Bruin while rushing to
class, they don’t bother to pick the insert up off the ground, or
if they are careful about it, they simply remove the ad and set it
on the newsstands. By the end of the day the areas around the
newsstands are littered with these advertisements probably until
the next day.
This is a very unattractive sight in contrast to the rest of the
campus, which is kept clean by a diligent clean-up crew. I hope
that something can be done to fix this problem.
Chris Davila
First-year
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