UCLA History: A View of UCLA’s Former Vermont Avenue Campus
UCLA was located on Vermont Avenue – where LA City College is now found – until the move to Westwood in the late 1920s. UCLA History Project.
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College Diversity Requirement Gathers Support
The following statement has been circulating among faculty today and has about 80 co-signers as of Wednesday afternoon. We Support the College Diversity Requirement We, the undersigned faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, express our enthusiastic support for a College Diversity Requirement for students within the College of Letters and Science. Our signatures reflect our confidence in the process, proposal, and the expected benefits of such a requirement for our students and our campus more generally. We recognize fully that for over 30 years, generations of students have worked hard alongside faculty in achieving this goal and now…
College of Letters and Science Faculty Vote on Diversity Requirement
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On Valentine’s Day, We Repeat an Earlier Post Entitled “A Modest Proposal”
Click on the link below:[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0dGRDvmO54?feature=player_detailpage]For those who take a more clinical approach to such matters, see:http://wamc.org/post/dr-robert-levenson-university-california-berkeley-genetics-marital-bliss
Dig a Deeper Hole?
The plaintiffs in the case against the UCLA Grand Hotel have filed an amended brief. You can read it at the link below. There are actually two cases, one involving environmental and other matters and another regarding the tax issue. The environmental case will be heard in September. And there is legal skirmishing around the tax case. The tax issue is basically that if the hotel is a commercial operation, it has to pay taxes just as would any other hotel. There is also an issue of whether the Regents can run a commercial enterprise and, if that’s what they…
Wednesday night on the 405
But not on the 405 Southbound I-405 (all lanes) will be closed between US 101 and Getty Center Drive on the morning of Thursday, February 13th from midnight until 5 am. When: Midnight-5 am on Thursday, February 13th Where: I-405 Southbound between US 101 and Getty Center Drive