UCLA History: Westwood Song
A song was apparently written to mark UCLA’s move to Westwood in the late 1920s. Sadly, the words and any recording seem to have vanished.
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Yudof: No Tuition Hike This Year If Voters Behave
UC, CSU Avoid Fee Increases Despite Budget Cuts Feb. 7, 2011, CBS Los Angeles SACRAMENTO (AP) — The chancellors of the University of California and California State University systems say they don’t plan to seek student fees increases this year, despite a state budget proposal that calls for deep cuts to higher education. But UC Chancellor Mark Yudof and CSU Chancellor Charles Reed said Monday that promise won’t hold if Californians don’t agree to tax extensions that Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing for the June ballot… Full article at http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/02/07/uc-csu-avoid-fee-increases-despite-budget-cuts/# Note: There may be less here than meets the eye….
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Crack Up: Campuses Beginning to Resist UCOP’s Allocation of Budget Cut
As things get tough, the notion of a unified UC system ultimately controlled from Oakland is beginning to crack. See the item below. UC Berkeley asked to absorb $80M of Brown’s $500M cut (excerpt) Feb. 7, 2011 | Louis Freedberg | California Watch University of California President Mark Yudof has set a target for the Berkeley campus to cut $80,800,000 from its budget for the coming year, as the 10-campus university system struggles to come to terms with a $500 million reduction in funds proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown. A cut of that magnitude would constitute 16.2 percent of the…
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As We Approach Valentine’s Day, It’s Nice to Know That UC Tuition Promotes Marriage
Marriages Made in Tuition Heaven: Some UC students have gotten married to snare in-state tuition rates, saving thousands Tess Townsend, Bay Area Citizen, 2-5-11 Most people find friends on Facebook. Others find husbands. A University of California, Berkeley, student from the Midwest felt she couldn’t afford the annual $30,000 in student fees, including $20,000 in out-of-state tuition. She posted that she was looking for a husband on a Facebook page titled “In State Tuition for Out of Staters!” (The woman requested anonymity out of fear of repercussions from the UC.) An out-of-state student whom she didn’t know responded to her…
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UCLA History: Four Westwood scenes from the 1920s to the 1950s
Four scenes of Westwood. The top photo shows the construction of a Ralphs grocery store near the soon-to-be-opened UCLA campus in the 1920s. Below that is a view alongside the store in the 1940s, possibly taken by famed photographer Ansel Adams. (He took several photos of the building at the time and this one looks similar to others on the web.) The bottom two photos were taken in the same location in the 1950s. Nowadays, the former Ralphs building houses a coffee shop. Question: Why is there no apostrophe in “Ralphs”?Answer: Because the founder was named George Ralphs.
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How many crises can we have on campus?
I thought we had enough troubles on campus, what with the budget crisis and the pension crisis. But today, while I was on my way towards the (soon-to-be-demolished) UCLA Faculty Club, I spotted this sign with yet more crises to worry about.
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Neighborhood Group Raises Concerns About Proposed Hotel to Replace Faculty Club While Faculty Welfare Committee Makes Environmental Proposals
A neighborhood association has raised procedural – and possibly legal – objections to the replacement of the UCLA Faculty Club with a Hotel/Conference Center which at latest word is to have over 280 rooms. Two letters from the association have been obtained by the Emeriti Committee. The first is a short, 2-page letter reproduced below. The second is a 14-page letter with much more detail. Both the short letter – which is hard to reproduce clearly as an image – and the longer one are available as a single pdf file at: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BzVLYPK7QI_4N2Q0ZDRiYzMtZDRhMy00YWRkLTlkNjYtNjkyZWQ1YTVjYzY5&hl=en The “CEQA” review to which both letters…
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A CSU President Declares Master Plan Dead
State plan for higher education ‘dead,’ CSUSM president declares: Haynes says universities must seek private partners to protect programs, services (excerpt) North County Times, 2-3-11, Deborah Sullivan Brennan California has abandoned its commitment to higher education, compelling Cal State San Marcos and other universities to seek private partnerships for their programs, university President Karen Haynes told hundreds of guests Thursday in her annual Report to the Community. “The California master plan for higher education is dead because the social compact itself is broken,” she said. “There is no longer the same sense of obligation to the next generation of Californians…
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Pension Deal in Legislature to Gain GOP Votes?
There continue to be reports that the Republican price for going along with putting Gov. Brown’s proposed tax extensions on the ballot will be some kind of public pension proposition. To recap, Brown needs the legislature to put his tax extensions on the ballot by June; there is not enough time to go the petition-signature-initiative route. The legislature would normally need a 2/3 vote to do so which would require all Democrats plus 5 Republicans to agree. While there has been discussion of ways to bypass the 2/3 requirement, such an approach could lead to a legal challenge which could…
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Budget from Hell Coming Back
Before Gov. Brown delivered his budget proposal in early January, it was speculated that he would follow a “Budget from Hell” strategy. Under that approach, he would have presented a budget on the assumption that no tax extensions were approved. Having seen Hell, voters would (presumably) gratefully vote for the tax extensions as the path out of Hell. In the end, however, he did not follow that approach. Instead, his budget was premised on the tax extensions being approved. When asked, he said that he did not believe in scare tactics – or at least he did not think scare…