Special Collections - Anteater Antics

Campus Scenes

Willie Brown on campus in 1973

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Former Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown gave the Dr. Joseph L. White lecture on January 19, 2012. He spoke on “California and Our Nation” as part of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. The first time Willie Brown spoke on the UCI campus was probably in 1973 when he was the Assemblyman from San Francisco’s 18th District and Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. The poster publicizing his speech on November 28, 1973 is below, and the article about his talk from the New U.  Always a powerful, dynamic and direct speaker, Willie Brown’s speeches at both events were very well received.

                                Poster Collection, University of California, Irvine (AS-050)

Holiday Party in 1964

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One of the first Holiday parties at UCI, from 1964, at the Interim Office Building, now part of UCI’s North Campus at the corner of Campus Drive and Jamboree Road. First Chancellor Daniel Aldrich and UCI’s first Vice Chancellor of Business and Finance L.E. Cox are among those pictured.

AS-061. University Communication Photographs. Special Collections and Archives, the U.C. Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.

Welcome Week 1980

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Some photographs from the 1980 O Week (aka Welcome Week)!

AS-061. University Communication Photographs. Special Collections and Archives, the U.C. Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.

Reagan Protest on January 23, 1967

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On January 23, 1967, three days after UC President Clark Kerr was fired by the University of California Regents, 1500 UCI students, faculty and staff participated in the first organized UCI campus protest. The protests were directed at then Governor Ronald Reagan and the UC Regents. Reagan made an effort to raise student fees and had organized against Kerr. Here are some additional photographs of that protest.

The large gathering at Gateway Plaza

Sam McCulloch, first Dean of Humanities, addresses gathering


As-054. Anton Ercegovich Slides. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.

More about “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes” filmed at UCI in 1972

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“Conquest of the Planet of the Apes,” the fourth in the five-film “Planet of the Apes” series, was filmed at UCI in 1972.  Much of the film, including the opening sequence, was filmed outside of Social Science Tower. In the film the ape Caesar, son of the late simians Zira and Cornelius (and played by Roddy McDowall), leads the apes to a revolution against humans. Dogs and cats have been wiped out by a plague, and humans (led by Governor Breck, played by Don Murray) have domesticated the apes and are treating them like slaves.  Zira and Cornelius were murdered twenty years before because they had the ability to think and speak, but Caesar was spared. He works for and is protected by the circus keeper Armando (played by Ricardo Montalban). The protest and demonstration scenes, in which Caesar leads the apes in an attempt to overthrow the humans, were filmed at the University Administration building.  The film originally had a darker, more violent opening and ending. Test audiences had a negative reaction to the original ending, and changes were made in the final version. Even with those changes, the film was the only film in the series that didn’t receive a G rating, it received a PG rating.

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AS-061. University Communications Photographs. Special Collections and Archives, the U.C. Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.

See more about the film (including the trailer) at IMDb.

Jerry Brown at UCI in 1974

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Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown, Jr. started his third (non-consecutive) term as Governor of California this month. Jerry Brown has been on the UCI campus several times, including his first visit on April 3, 1974 when he gave a speech in Humanities Hall 161 (below). Brown was California’s Secretary of State then. The primary elections for California governor took place on June 4, 1974, with Brown winning the Democratic nomination. The California gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1974. Brown won with 50.11% of the vote, over Houston Flournoy with 47.25%. He was only 36 years old when he became California’s 34th Governor on January 7, 1975. He was 72 when he started his third term on January 3, 2011.

AS-061. University Communications Photographs. Special Collections and Archives, the U.C. Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.

Janis Joplin and Big Brother & the Holding Company

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Big Brother & the Holding Company played for a dance in Campus Hall (now Crawford Hall) on Friday, September 27, 1968. Morning Glory was the opening band and lights were by Thomas Edison & Castle Lighting. Tickets were $3.50.  The New University called Big Brother “San Francisco’s only true heavies.”

AS-061.  University Communications Photographs. Special Collections and Archives, the U.C. Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.

UCI Welcome Weeks from the Past!

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Welcome Week 2010 is approaching, so we’ve pulled a few interesting photographs from Welcome Weeks of the past…

New students getting acquainted in the 1970s. Could the person in the middle be film actor, SNL alum, drama major and 1979 UCI graduate Jon Lovitz?

In 1980, the fabulous local punk/new wave band the Nu-Beams perform at Welcome Week.

Also from 1980, the Career Planning and Placement Center was giving away “a free record album” … Pat Benatar’s Crimes of Passion, wow!

AS-061.  University Communications Photographs. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.