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Settling Pepper
Byadmin September 5, 2012

Among the various items on the Regents agenda in September is a review of litigation affecting UC. Included is a tentative settlement of the UC-Davis pepper spray incident. Another bit of litigation from the “occupy” demonstrations at Davis involving a bank branch there is also up for discussion. The Japanese Garden litigation is on the list as is the UCLA lab fire incident involving a faculty member being prosecuted by the local DA (and defended by the university). And there is a lawsuit arising from demonstrations at Berkeley. The full list is at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/sept12/finx.pdf but note that all of this discussion will…

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Impressive!! The UCLA Hotel-Brick-Grande Unveiled on Regents Agenda
Byadmin September 5, 2012

As noted on yesterday’s blog, the Regents agenda was posted but without the detailed items. Now we can see the images of the UCLA Hotel Grande and it turns out to be brick. The prior conceptual images were not clear. There is also a grand report to the Regents which surely they will read, page by page. Those who testified at the June hearing will be happy to note that “no substantive comments were received in comment letters or the public hearing that required changes to the conclusions of the Draft EIR.” The Regents item can be downloaded at:http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/sept12/gb3.pdf or…

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More Info on the Rejection of the Anderson Self-Sufficiency Plan
Byadmin September 5, 2012

The systemwide Academic Senate rejection of the UCLA Anderson School’s self-sufficiency funding plan appears in the letter you can read at the link below. A prior post on this blog indicated that there was a rejection. However, the Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs (CCGA) defends its rejection as a technical interpretation of existing UC policy and indicates that it recommends that the policy be re-examined to cover situations such as Anderson’s. On the other hand, it expresses a variety of reservations about the Anderson plan that seem independent of whatever policy may be in place. Since the Regents are…

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The Regents Shouldn’t be Shocked If Tax Problems Arise from the UCLA Hotel
Byadmin September 4, 2012

As our previous blog post noted, final approval of the UCLA Hotel Super-Grande is to be rubber stamped at the Regents Sept. 11. The business plan was previously approved in July (after being deemed unacceptable in March) so this approval is just for the architecture. At Regents meetings and numerous other venues, the Regents and UCLA have been given public notice of the tax problems potentially embedded in the hotel plan. There was an editorial on the subject in the LA Business Journal previously. And this week there is an op ed in the same newspaper. You can read an…

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Waiting for Details on the September 11-13 Regents Meeting
Byadmin September 4, 2012

The Regents are meeting Sept. 11-13 at UC-San Francisco. Below is the preliminary agenda – which includes the architectural plans for UCLA’s Hotel Super-Grandeand an “Action Approval” for some plans related to Health Sciences at UCLA. At the moment (7 am today), the detailed agenda items are not yet posted. Tuesday September 11 1:00 pm Committee on Compliance and Audit (Regents only session) 1:10 pm Committee of the Whole – Public Comment (open session) 1:30 pm Committee on Compliance and Audit (open session) 3:00 pm Committee on Grounds and Buildings (open session) including: GB3 Action Amendment of the Long Range…

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UCLA History: Union President Visits
Byadmin September 3, 2012

Our Labor Day Photo Selection: In the late 1940s, Ronald Reagan – then president of the Screen Actors Guild – attends a program at the new UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations (now the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment).

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UCLA History: Clinic
Byadmin September 2, 2012

LA City Councilwoman Rosalind Wyman, UCLA Chancellor Franklin Murphy, Marion Davies, LA County Supervisor Ernest Debs, and UCLA Med School Dean Dr. Stafford L. Warren at the groundbreaking of the new Marion Davies Children’s Wing at UCLA Medical Center. October 7, 1960. [LAPL Collection]

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The Approval of the Self-Sustaining MBA Seems to be Unsustainable
Byadmin September 1, 2012

The Daily Bruin is reporting in an article dated 8/31/12 that the on-again-off-again move towards a “self sufficient” MBA program is off again: A UC Academic Senate committee voted to suspend their review of the Anderson School of Management’s proposal to become financially self-supporting, according to a memo sent to the school today. …The proposal passed the UCLA Legislative Assembly in June. To take effect, it needed to go through the UC Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs and the UC Office of the President. The graduate affairs committee voted 10-0-1 to halt the review. Members of the committee decided to…

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Bill to Cut Tuition Goes Down the Drain
Byadmin September 1, 2012

The bill sponsored by assembly speaker John Pérez that would close a corporate tax loophole with revenue dedicated to tuition cuts went down the drain last night. An earlier post on this blog noted that a version of it had gotten through the assembly – despite needing a 2/3 vote. (Pérez got an independent and one renegade GOP member to vote for it, giving him the 2/3.) But getting 2/3 in the senate, despite all sorts of manipulations was not possible. …(A) closely watched bill may have been too unwieldy to gain orbit. That was Assembly Speaker John Pérez’s gambit…

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No “Ramp Jam” at Wilshire/Pension Deal Excluding UC Goes to Brown
Byadmin September 1, 2012

Commuters to UCLA will know that the Wilshire ramps to the I-405 have been closed for construction. That project was termed “Ramp Jam” but apparently the jam is gone. At least some of the causes for traffic jams near UCLA as a result of the construction on the 405 are ending:=== The westbound Wilshire Boulevard onramp to the northbound 405 Freeway and the northbound 405’s offramp to westbound Wilshire will reopen Friday—three weeks earlier than planned, according to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The ramps were closed June 22 in the first phase of a yearlong effort to demolish…

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