Get Ready for Celebrate UCI! April 18, 2013
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This Saturday, April 20th, the UC Irvine campus will hold its annual Celebrate UCI event in Aldrich Park. This campus-wide celebration includes live entertainment, carnival games and rides, lots of food, arts & crafts, performances, the annual car show (15 years running!), and Wayzgoose, one of UCI’s oldest traditions. The festival also features an Open House, where many campus services will remain open in order for prospective students and the community to learn about the UCI campus. All events are free and parking is complimentary!
This celebration has been a campus favorite for decades. Here are some photos of Celebrate UCI and Wayzgoose festivals from the 1980s:
These photos and more are available to view in our reading room at Special Collections and Archives, on the 5th floor of Langson Library. They will soon be available online via the Online Archive of UCI History, which documents the first 50 years of the campus in photographs, videos, audio recordings, publications, the New University newspaper, and other publications. Check back often, as new materials are continuously being added.
Check out this video of last year’s celebrations, and get ready for another great year of Celebrate UCI!
Photos from AS-061, UCI Communications Photographs Collection. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Discover UCI April 12, 2013
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We’d like to give a warm welcome to the newly admitted freshmen and their families who are visiting UCI this week! Here is a slideshow of students discovering the new UCI campus in the 1960s (looks a bit different now, doesn’t it?):
These images, along with thousands more, are available at the Online Archive of UCI History. The site also features videos (like the quirky Wot ZOT?), interviews with founding faculty members, and the New University student newspaper, with more coming soon!
The First UCI Men’s Basketball Game: December 1, 1965 January 28, 2013
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It’s basketball season! The very first UCI basketball game was held over 47 years ago in December, 1965. The Anteaters played the Highlanders of UC Riverside in Campus Hall (now Crawford Hall), where Chancellor Dan Aldrich and UCR Chancellor Ivan Hinderaker tipped off to begin the game. The ‘Eaters went on to win the game with a score of 85 to 71! ZOT ZOT!
Good luck to the men as they play Cal Poly this Wednesday January 30th, and to the women as they play Pacific on Thursday January 31st!
Halloween in the Archives! October 31, 2012
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Sherlock Holmes and Snow White showed up this morning in the archives, completely unexpected. Come by Special Collections and Archives today, eat an apple, and do some investigating….
Anteater Sculpture at Bren Events Center September 28, 2012
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The Bren Events Center opened on January 8, 1987, when the men’s basketball team beat Utah State 118-96 in front of a sold-out crowd. Current NBA Head Coach Scott Brooks (Oklahoma City Thunder) scored 41 points for the Anteaters that night.
The Graduating Class of 1987 commissioned artist Billy Fitzgerald to design and cast the 430-pound bronze sculpture which stands in front of the Bren Events Center. Fitzgerald also designed the statue of the UCLA Bruin on the UCLA campus.
AS-061. University Communication Photographs. Special Collections and Archives, the U.C. Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Box 128.
Anteater in Aldrich Park May 12, 2010
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An early photograph of a baby anteater in a tree in Aldrich Park (formerly Campus Park), ca. 1968. Is this cute, or what?
AS-061. University Communications Photographs. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Peter Hangs Five March 31, 2010
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Camino’s First Years: Camino, Mesa Court, UCI. AS-068. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Johnny Hart’s Anteater December 10, 2009
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Most anteater aficionados know that the UCI mascot was inspired by a character in the Johnny Hart comic strip “B.C.” Few know that Mr. Hart liked the anteater mascot concept. He even completed an original drawing of the anteater, which he sent to UCI… apparently later than expected!
"To my patient friends at Irvine, best wishes from Johnny Hart."
Oh baby! January 14, 2008
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Baby anteater hanging around UCI campus, circa 1968.
Over the years mascots have been subjected to countless dangers and humilities. Peter the Anteater is no exception. Witness here photographic evidence.
UCI Communications Photographs. AS-061. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Anteaters on Parade November 27, 2007
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Blank greeting card from the UCI Alumni Association, 1981.
Anteaters everywhere celebrate the birth of the UCI Special Collections & Archives Anteater Antics blog!
