Factoid: When UCLA first moved to Westwood in 1929 (dedication ceremony above), the state’s population was far less likely than today to have been born in California. (See below.) The contrast of today with the situation just after World War II was even more dramatic on that score. Thus, although we think of today’s California population as “diverse,” in terms of state nativity, it is less diverse than in the past.
Edison: R&D was cheaper back then Thirty institutions reporting the largest FY 2012 R&D expenditures in all fields: NSF Data (Millions of dollars) All institutions $61,257 Leading 30 institutions $24,458 1 Johns Hopkins U. a 2,004 2 U. MI Ann Arbor 1,184 3 U. WI Madison 1,029 4 U. WA Seattle 1,023 5 U. CA San Diego 943 6 U. CA San Francisco 936 7 Duke U. 983 8 U. CA Los Angeles 937 9 Stanford U. 840 10 Columbia U. in the City of New York 807 11 U. NC Chapel Hill 755 12 U. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh 822 13…
We’re still fascinated by that page on the UC website that provides “brand guidelines” so that we can all “speak UC.” You can find it at http://brand.universityofcalifornia.edu/. Clicking around and you will learn that “University of California” is actually a “wordmark.” And you probably thought it was just the name of the UC system! In fact, the “University of California” wordmark serves as the primary graphic identifier of the university for systemwide communications. However, the visual identity is more than just the wordmark. Photography, other graphics, typography, color palettes—all these elements help form the “visual ecosystem” for the name of the…
In case you were wondering what your students are doing during exam week, the Daily Bruin provides a clue on its website in the form of a “radio” interview at the link below: http://dailybruin.com/2013/12/09/ucla-students-find-many-ways-to-procrastinate-during-finals-week/ The audio didn’t play on Firefox but it did work on Chrome. [Maybe someone just didn’t have the time to make it compatible with Firebox.]
Excerpt: As she watched a man getting shoved to the ground, Caitlin Estudillo sprang from a bench near Powell Library and tried to stop what she perceived as a bullying incident unfolding in front of her. For the third-year sociology and world arts and cultures/dance student, the act was instinctual. “I didn’t give it a thought; it was just something I had to do,” Estudillo said. “I didn’t think of the consequences.” At the time, Estudillo did not know that the conflict was a staged fight designed to gauge how people would react to seeing someone else be bullied. Various…
We have been offering unsolicited advice to Murphy Hall about what to do about the traffic stop “problem” that arose a week ago. Before the lawyers get hold of this matter and make it complicated (think, for example, about the Japanese Garden affair), how about just starting with an apology to Judge Cunningham? It’s been done before and we offer a modest proposal below:
Devoted blog readers will recall our unsolicited advice of last Wednesday to the folks in Murphy Hall. We suggested that they spend their Thanksgiving weekend trying to figure out what happened when a UCLA police car stopped a motorist in Westwood for driving without a seatbelt buckled. According to the Huffington Post, African-American Judge Superior Court Judge David Cunningham exited L.A. Fitness Gym around 10 am on Wednesday. [“Start” on the map above.] Presumably, he pulled out of the garage you can see above in his Mercedes – beltless – and proceeded north on Gayley. According to the press release…
Westwood went into decline after a visitor was killed in a shooting between rival gang members in 1988. Since that time, various efforts have been made at reviving the area which still features empty stores up and down Westwood Blvd. Warren Olney on KCRW’s “Which Way LA?” did a segment on “Will Westwood Every Be Hip Again?” on Nov. 26, 2013. The program notes the empty stores and the decline of Westwood as a popular destination since the late 1980s. Yours truly had trouble downloading or playing the segment so we provide an alternative link to it below. (function(d, s,…
JFK at UCLA, Nov. 2, 1959 Yours truly will be traveling and out of town for about a week so less blogging than normal is likely. But we did post on Nov. 22, the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, some Kennedy material. (A phone call involving Kennedy, then-Governor Pat Brown, and young student Jerry Brown.) Shortly after the assassination came the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald over the weekend. On the Monday following that weekend, New York radio commentator and humorist Jean Shepherd deviated from the usual format of his broadcast to talk about the Kennedy assassination, the office…
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…
