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    More Indications that Replacement for AVCO Cinema Isn’t Aimed at UCLA Students

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    An earlier post on this blog noted that the currently-closed AVCO movie theater in Westwood near UCLA is being remodeled into a pricey cinema and that the prices didn’t suggest a student  customer base is expected.  More such indication below: Westwood Neighborhood Council members on Wednesday  (10-14-12) voted to support iPic Theaters’ request for a conditional use permit to allow the sale of a full line of alcoholic beverages at the swanky theater. “This is the kind of business we want in Westwood,” board member Connie Boukidis said. The theater will require that servers who take drink orders are the…

  • Econ Nobel

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    Shapley Press Release15 October 2012 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2012 to Alvin E. Roth, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, and Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA and Lloyd S. Shapley, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA “for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design”. Stable allocations – from theory to pratice This year’s Prize concerns a central economic problem: how to match different agents as well as possible. For example, students have to be matched with schools, and donors of…

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    A Word from Our Sponsor….

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    UCLA Faculty AssociationSPEAKERS’ FORUM ON ALTERNATIVE FUNDING MODELS FOR UC DATE: Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012TIME: Noon-1:30 pm,LOCATION: Faculty Center, California Room,LUNCH: Complimentary Sandwiches and Beverages will be served.RSVP: ucfa@earthlink.net  so we can get an accurate food count. (Cut and paste this address into your email.  You can’t do it from here.)ACTION: Join the UCLA Faculty Assn.: go to www.uclafaculty.org APRIL 1982: ANCIENT CALIFORNIA HISTORY“The interconnected complications surrounding the upcoming state budget for 1982-83 defy comprehension by most state legislators let alone the public at large… Governor Jerry Brown is projecting a $3 to $4 Billion shortfall in revenues for 1982-83. This is against the Governor’s $2.1…

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    Just a Little Trip-Up in the Rush to Approve the UCLA Hotel

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    Readers of this blog will know that the proposed UCLA hotel-conference center has many pitfalls, legal, tax-wise, and financial. And now the Regents and the donors are the target of a lawsuit.  This problem, as we have noted oh so many times, might have been avoided by a) scaling down the project to something reasonable, and b) talking and negotiating with those folks and interests in the community that had concerns about the project. UCLA bulled ahead, however, getting the donors to sign a letter stating that no alternative was OK.  Ironically, that step opened the door to a legal…

  • The Way You Look (at Harvard Law)

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    According to Inside Higher Ed, Harvard Law School has decided to switch from phone interviews to video interviews so the interviewer can see the candidate. Article athttp://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/10/12/harvard-law-switches-video-interviews According to the official memo from Harvard Law School, “…we evaluate applicants from all angles…”http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2012/10/11_hls_expands_jd_admissions_interviews.html Puts a big emphasis on appearance, no?  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Gg7RULwrI?feature=player_detailpage]

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    Legal victory for university consortium that includes UC

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    Inside Higher Ed is reporting a legal victory concerning a Google/university partnership that involves indexing a vast number of books.  Excerpt:Much of the work of the HathiTrust (a consortium of universities) to make books in university collections more easily searchable and accessible to people with disabilities is protected by “fair use” and is not subject to a copyright suit brought by authors’ groups, a federal judge has ruled…I can’t give you the ins and outs of this case but UC is a member of the HathiTrust.  The full Inside Higher Ed article is at:http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/10/11/fair-use-applies-book-digitizing-work-judge-rules That article links to a legal blog which…

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    How High?

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    A prior post on this blog noted that CalPERS was considering raising its rates for long-term care insurance by 75%.  We noted that although UC was not under CalPERS, as state employees, UC employees have been allowed in the past to participate in the program. We also noted that such insurance is a very iffy proposition since it is hard to forecast costs many years ahead for long-term care and thus rates could go up (a lot). Turns out, that CalPERS is indeed planning to raise the rates.  But now the increase may be as high as 85%.  From the…