Year: 2013

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    Listen to First Segment of Afternoon Session of UC Regents: 9-18-2013

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    Summary: The afternoon session began with a presentation by the new president of the UC Students Assn.  He described a program to find jobs for graduate students whose careers are currently limited by the loose labor market.  He described a program focused on prisons vs. UC, the details of which were not clear.  He favored an oil severance tax and also divestment from fossil fuels.  (Some listeners might find those causes somewhat in conflict; depends on how you look at them.)    Much of the afternoon was then spent on budgetary issues.  Charts were shown indicating the volatility in tuition…

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    Listen to the Morning Session of the Regents: 9-18-2013

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    Summary: After a series of closed meetings, the Regents – including Gov. Jerry Brown – had a public comment session.  A rep from a union of residents complained that UC-irvine was not recognizing their organization.  A student suggested that the Regents should have a Facebook page.  Concerns were expressed about tuition increases.  There were complaints about high out-of-state tuition.  The students who complained the day before that they could not get an appointment with incoming UC president Napolitano reported that they now had an appointment.   There were requests for the Regents to meet in southern California.  A group of students…

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    Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps…

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    … in this petty pace from day to day.   Actually, Macbeth, it is not the daythat will creep tomorrow and the next few days.  It is the traffic around UCLA that will creep due to students arriving in their dorms for the fall quarter.  From Facilities Management: What: Residence Halls Move In When: Thursday, September 19 through Sunday, September 22. 8 am to 10 pm daily.  Where: Residence Halls area Impacts: Over 10,000 students will be moving in, along with their belongings, over this 4 day period. The current one-way condition on De Neve Drive will be extended to include…

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    Listen to the Second Half of the Regents Meeting of 9-17-2013

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    Our earlier post had the Regents audio for the first part of the meeting of 9-17-13.  There was then a closed session.  The audio link below picks up the meeting again when the public component resumed.  We also noted in the previous post that there was a inadvertent hot mike at the beginning of the meeting in a supposedly closed session which transmitted sensitive material online.  We have not archived that portion.  However, when the meeting reopened in a public session, apparently some Regents were not sensitive to what was going out.  The audio begins with one Regent telling another…

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    Listen to the First Part of the Regents Meeting of 9-17-2013

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    But before you listen, note that we have been archiving Regents audios because of regental policy not to archive them for more than one year.  Today, there was a bit of a mishap in the handling of the Regents live stream.  As a result, yours truly sent the email below to an official in the Regents’ office: As you may know, the UCLA Faculty Assn. posts the audios of regents meetings online since it is apparently regents policy not to archive the recordings for more than one year online.  As a result, I turned on my recorder at 1 pm…

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    Department of Bad Timing

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    On Thursday, the Regents meeting seems to consist of a PR tour of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab as part of a more general review of the different Dept. of Energy labs that continues from the last meeting [http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/jul13/o1.pdf]. As the screenshot above suggests, however, the timing is not so good for discussing the labs, at least for cousin lab, Lawrence Berkeley. [Three labs are managed by UC as descendants of the World War II Manhattan Project.]  From the website yesterday of the San Francisco Chronicle: After years of planning, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has just lost out on a…

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    Let he who is without Zinn…

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    Daniels cast the first stone and now he is being castigated. From Inside Higher Ed today comes this story of activities at Purdue:This summer, the Associated Press revealed that Mitch Daniels, while governor of Indiana, tried to discourage the use of the books of the late Howard Zinn, a leftist historian, in the state. In a new effort to defend Zinn’s legacy, scholars have announced plans for a “read in” of Zinn’s work, to take place at Purdue University, where Daniels is now the president…Full story at:http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/09/17/plan-honor-howard-zinn-purdue-university

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    Please sir, can I have some more?

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    From the Daily Bruin: Wolfgang Puck, a casual dining restaurant in Ackerman Union, is scheduled to open to the public on Wednesday. The restaurant is offering a sample service for select people or groups in the days leading up to the opening so that the staff can gain some experience… The restaurant’s patio furniture will not arrive until a few days after the opening and restaurant officials are still finalizing the liquor license, but Wolfgang Puck will open without them so that the restaurant staff can train before school starts… Wolfgang Puck will have full service, including patio seating and beer and wine…

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    Japanese Garden: Time for Salvage?

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    UCLA has now lost two rounds in litigation over its attempt to sell the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden.  A judge has suggested that the attempt just doesn’t pass the legal sniff test.   I’m not sure why, exactly, but the headline on salvaging and righting the ship on today’s LA Times website suggested to yours truly that there might be some alternatives for UCLA beyond just leaving the legal situation as it stands.  Someone in Murphy Hall might think of salvaging the garden sale’s tenuous legal position by talking to the plaintiffs and others involved. No? Anyway, it’s something for…