Where is the Daily Bruin today?
In my three years at the Bruin, I have always known its editors and staff to consider it a professional, not college, paper. The staff has always strived to emulate professional-quality journalism, and we look to compete with local professional papers, not merely follow them. When professional papers beat us to important stories (as they inevitably do), we do not write it off to the fact that we are just students. Instead, we curse and get upset, then we pick ourselves up and go after the story harder. Such a mentality has driven the Bruins staff to create remarkable and quality pieces of journalism. High expectations have fostered good editorial development and pushed editors and staff to excel. Editors and staff this year are very talented, and the Bruin continues to attract some of the best young journalists at UCLA. However, in my conversations with section heads and some of the staff, and in my own observations of the paper, it is becoming clear that passion and commitment among s
