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An Arresting Development

Byuclafaculty

The story below is being picked up by various news sources.  From the LA Times website: An African American judge who has accused UCLA police of excessive force ignored officers’ orders to stay in his car, UCLA officials said Monday. David S. Cunningham III, a former Los Angeles Police Commission president, filed a complaint against the officers after they allegedly shoved him against his car, handcuffed him and locked him in the back seat of their police cruiser.” During the course of the traffic stop, police officers instructed the driver to stay inside the vehicle and returned to their patrol…

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Sit-In at GSEIS

Byuclafaculty

A complicated story of a sit-in at a class at GS&EIS is emerging.  There were earlier reports in the Daily Bruin [see links below] and elsewhere.  This one – excerpted below from Inside Higher Ed – gives the clearest description: …(S)ome graduate students are weighing in on what they see as a climate of hostility toward minority students, both in the Graduate School of Education’s Information’s Social Science and Comparative Education division and at UCLA as a whole. But the grad students’ interruption of a class session with a sit-in has other graduate students questioning their tactics — and some say…

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Update on ObamaJam Today

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Yesterday, we posted about a possible upcoming ObamaJam today due to a presidential visit.  Here is an update: Not to worry Drivers were warned Sunday to expect presidential motorcades across a broad swath of the Westside during Monday afternoon’s rush hour, as Barack Obama plans to cross from Westwood to the Beverly Hills area. Los Angeles police warned that Air Force One will touch down at LAX between 4 and 5 p.m. Monday, possibly closing streets in the World Way West area, near Playa del Rey. Although exact plans were not released, the president will apparently follow past patterns and…

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UCLA History: Poking Fun in 1963 at “Sensitivity Training” Courses at the Then-School of Business Administration

Byuclafaculty

UCLA in the 1960s UCLA offered various sensitivity training courses in the 1960s and 1970s, featuring T-Groups and the like.  Today, sensitivity training is typically aimed at particular issues such as racial or sex discrimination.  At the time, it was more generally aimed at self understanding, which was thought to make management executives more effective.  The technique, which could resemble group therapy, was controversial.  What was then the School of Business Administration – now the Anderson School – was a center for such course offerings and research.   Because of the “touchy-feely” element, it was satirized by radio commentator and humorist…

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Permanent? No Exit?

Byuclafaculty

UCLA Facilities Management is circulating the message: Traffic Notice Full Closure Description The Montana Avenue off-ramp from northbound I-405 will close permanently at 6 am on Monday, November 25th. The I-405 northbound off-ramp to Sunset Boulevard will be reopen at the same time. When: Monday, November 25th at 6 am Where: I-405 Northbound Off-ramp to Montana; I-405 Northbound Off-ramp to Sunset  ===What is unclear is whether the closure on Montana is really permanent.  When yours truly went to the Facilities Management website from which this message is supposed to have derived, there was no mention of a permanent closure of…

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Union for Docs at Student Health Centers

Byuclafaculty

From the Daily Bruin: On Thursday, the University of California formally recognized the Union of American Physicians and Dentists as the exclusive representative of doctors working at any of the student health centers. The campaign to unionize began with a few University doctors who reached out to the union in December 2012. Physicians voted in April to appeal to the UC to recognize the union. Doctors were motivated to join the union because they want more input and autonomy in running the UC student health centers, said Dr. Stuart Bussey, president of the Union of American Physicians and Dentists… Full…

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JFK Talks with Pat Brown and Jerry Brown

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JFK at UCLA: Nov. 2, 1959 Since today is the fiftieth anniversary of the JFK assassination, there is much in the news media about that event.  Rather than focus on that episode, we present a) the photo you see of Kennedy as a senator speaking at UCLA in 1959, and b) a Dictabelt recording of Kennedy talking on the phone as president to Governor Pat Brown and son Jerry Brown in 1962. Some background: Various recording technologies were in use in the early 1960s.  Tape and wire recorders were introduced in the period after World War II.  (Germany had made…

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Maybe the Regents Finally Got the Attention of the Governor on the UC Pension Issue

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We noted in a post yesterday that the LAO was forecasting rosy budget times ahead for the state but nonetheless seemed to want a budget freeze for UC.  Today, the news media are full of statements by Gov. Brown warning the legislature not to party and to behave frugally.  We also noted in prior posts on the recent Regents meeting that the Regents were somewhat bolder with the governor.  After the usual thank-you-thank-yours for Prop 30, they passed a budget proposal with more money than the governor wanted and pointed especially to the imbalance whereby the state automatically funds the…