At least when the Big One hits LA, they’ll probably go after CalTech before suing UCLA
And if you looked at the prior post on this blog, I am sure the participants will carefully avoid predicting anything at the two forthcoming events.
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Two Interesting Charts
A report from the Bay Area Council, a business group, show educational attainment by metro area. LA has not been a particularly prosperous area, even before the Great Recession. The Bay Area and the San Diego area in California have done better. They are notably characterized by higher educational attainments of their populations. As the chart below indicates, the higher educational attainment correlates with per-capita income and output. The report is at:http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/media/files/pdf/BAEconAssessmentAdvance.pdf
More Indications that Replacement for AVCO Cinema Isn’t Aimed at UCLA Students
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…
UCLA History: Seen (or Scene) from a Distance
A 1930s view of the UCLA campus.
UCLA History: Steps
Construction of Janss steps on new yet-to-be-opened Westwood UCLA campus in 1927.
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UC History: Ansel Adams Photos
A report in the San Francisco Chronicle today indicates that in 1964, UC President Clark Kerr hired famed photographer Ansel Adams to take pictures of the UC system. The photos came out in a picture book later which has not been reprinted until now when copies were made for incoming UC-Berkeley freshmen. Only a few photos are reproduced in the Chronicle such as the one on the right of a class for veterinarians at UC-Davis. It’s nice that Adams gave us the horse’s head rather than the reverse. You can find the report at:http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Ansel-Adams-prints-found-at-UC-Berkeley-3909179.php
A Little California Background
Each year, yours truly does a presentation during orientation for the incoming MPP students on California and its history, politics, institutions, and even a little on the state budget. If you have a spare hour and a half, the version from Sept. 25 can be seen in three parts at the links below. Even long-time Californians may find some new information which may shed light on some current state dilemmas. We began the class with – what else? – the official state song: and then got into the specifics: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3:
UCLA Has a New MacArthur Fellow
From the MacArthur Foundation website: Elissa Hallem Neurobiologist Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics University of California, Los Angeles Age: 34 Elissa Hallem is a neuroscientist who explores the physiology and behavioral consequences of odor detection. As a graduate student, she undertook expansive studies of olfaction in fruit flies that revealed several important, and sometimes unexpected, insights. Starting with a mutant fly strain that lacks any odorant receptor in a well-characterized subset of olfactory receptor neurons, Hallem produced more than twenty different transgenic fruit fly lines, each expressing a single, known odorant receptor gene in these neurons. …
Say Again How This Is Going to Work
Gov. Brown has signed the law on universities and social media. As a prior blog post pointed out, it is unclear how subsections (a) and (c) in section (2) of the law fit together. See the text below:=====<!–[if !mso]>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]–> SB 1349, Yee. Social media privacy: postsecondary education. Existing law establishes and sets forth the missions and functions of the public and independent institutions of postsecondary education in the state. This bill would prohibit public and private postsecondary educational institutions, and their employees and representatives, from requiring or requesting a student, prospective student, or student group to disclose, access,…
UCLA History and Follow Up: Selection and Adverse Selection
The caption of this 1951 photo from the LA Public Library collection reads “Edward A. Dickson, chairman of the University of California Regents, signs contracts for UCLA’s $20,000,000 Medical Center, while architect Carl C. McElvy looks on.” The selection of the design for the original UCLA med center suggests a follow-up observation on our prior post about Anthem/Blue Cross dropping UCLA (and Cedars-Sinai) from its plan for LA City workers. Not surprisingly, there were some angry letters about that decision in the LA Times today. See http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/la-le-0923-sunday-cedars-ucla-anthem-20120923-4,0,5880599.story. Our prior post is athttp://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2012/09/there-will-be-repercussions.htmlOne of the letters to the editor asks why Anthem/Blue Cross did…