USC, UCLA Officials Seek Publishers of Parody
Administrators at USC were searching for the publishers of a sexually explicit and racist parody of UCLA’s Daily Bruin student paper, officials at both schools said Friday.
The eight-page tabloid was distributed Thursday at USC and on the Westwood campus. Staff members of USC’s newspaper, the Daily Trojan, said the bogus tabloid may have been produced by a group led by a former Daily Trojan writer who was disappointed that the rival schools chose to end the longstanding tradition of lampooning each other’s student papers.
Because of increasingly offensive material published in recent years, students agreed to cease distributing the mock newspapers, which traditionally appeared just before the annual UCLA-USC football game, which is today.
Writer bylines and photographer credits in the bogus Bruin contained racial slurs. Advertisements contained crude references to homosexuals. About 2,000 copies were distributed at each campus.
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