UCLA History: Bear
Chancellor Young examines statue of the UCLA bear in 1984, shortly after its unveiling.
miscellaneous
Love at UCLA on Valentine’s Day
The UCLA campus is so lovable that couples come to it to have engagement photos taken, as per above. But sometimes, even at UCLA, all does not go well in affairs of the heart: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXUphyeOjko&w=320&h=195] On the other hand, boy (Houdini) did get girl (the hard way) in 1919 in Santa Monica: PS: Faithful readers of this blog will know that things can work out at UCLA, too, as we demonstrated last fall:http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2011/10/modest-proposal-at-ucla.html
UCLA’s Teofilo F. Ruiz awarded the National Humanities Medal, President Obama has announced
Inside Higher Ed this morning pointed me to a news item from last Friday: Teofilo Ruiz, a professor of history and of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA – whose unusual faculty webpage photo appears at left – was awarded a National Humanities Medal according to a White House announcement. The actual awarding of the medal will take place today. Excerpt from the official profile released by the White House: Ruiz has also earned accolades for his teaching, including being named U.S. professor of the year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1995 and receiving UCLA’s Distinguished…
UCLA History: Mayor Speaks
Not all demonstrations on the UCLA campus during the Vietnam War opposed the war. Above in 1966, LA Mayor Sam Yorty speaks to group supporting the war.
UCLA History: Fowler
Before the Fowler Museum moved to the UCLA campus, it stood on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills as this 1978 photo shows.
UCLA History: Children’s Hospital
Photo from LA Public Library collection. Photograph caption dated January 9, 1958 reads, “Marion Davies presents check for $1,500,000 to build a new Marion Davies Children’s Wing at UCLA Medical Center to Edwin W. Pauley, chairman of the board of regents. Watching are Vern O. Knudsen, UCLA vice chancellor, and Dr. Stafford L. Warren (right), dean of the UCLA Medical School. An architect’s sketch of the medical center is in the background.” In 1998, the hospital was renamed the Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA in recognition of the gift made to the hospital by Mattel, Inc.
Golly!
Arizona legislators are considering a bill that would punish college instructors whose speech or actions would violate broadcast obscenity standards… Full story from Inside Higher Ed: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/02/10/arizona-debates-legislation-classroom-obscenitiy-political-discrimination#ixzz1lzq3qZof [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgoWZjHq-UY&w=320&h=195]
UCLA History: Level Parking
Parking in the pre-parking structure age on the UCLA campus (1961).
UCLA History: Bunche Instructor
Photo of an unidentified professor at UCLA’s Vermont Avenue campus in 1925 said to be one of the instructors of Ralph Bunche.
No Bee Link Here
The Sacramento Bee has updated its database of all state salaries by name, including UC employees. No, I won’t give you the link although you can readily search it out. Yours truly writes a weekly blog for a group called the Employment Policy Research Association. As it happens, this week’s blog for that group tells you why I won’t supply the link to the Bee‘s database. (The fact that the blog entry and the database appeared in the same week was a coincidence.) ===================== http://www.employmentpolicy.org/topic/402/blog/mitchell%E2%80%99s-musings-1-30-12-matters-degree Mitchell’s Musings 1-30-12: Matters of Degree Daniel J.B. Mitchell Let’s start with the admission…