Bette Billet passed on to me the chart above which indicates that Westwood is the most expensive (in terms of local residential real estate) college town in the U.S. If you click on the image above, you will get an enlarged and clearer view. The original link is at http://www.coldwellbanker.com/real_estate/learn/2011_most_expensive_college_towns
As the excerpt below notes, yesterday was Josiah Royce’s 156th birthday – the Royce after whom Royce Hall is named. November 10 is the 156th anniversary of the birth of Josiah Royce, world famous philosopher and Grass Valley native. He was the “leading American proponent of absolute idealism, the metaphysical view that all aspects of reality, including those we experience as disconnected or contradictory, are ultimately unified in the thought of a single all-encompassing consciousness,” according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Royce’s parents crossed the Sierras in a covered wagon in 1849. His father established a general store. His…
Prof. Tobias Higbie took a sequence of 65 photos – one of which is above – of the “ReFund California” demonstration on Nov. 9 that began in the center of the UCLA campus and ended at Westwood and Wilshire Boulevards. The full sequence is available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/higbie/6330346965/in/set-72157627969793047 (Some photos may load slowly depending on your connection speed.)
From the Daily Californian: On Monday, the UC Berkeley administration sent an email to students stating that setting up any encampments on campus property would not be tolerated. But when Occupy Cal protesters voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to pitch tents on the lawns outside of Sproul Hall despite the warning, clashes with police ensued — the exact result campus officials had said they hoped to avoid… Full article at http://www.dailycal.org/2011/11/10/occupy-cal-moves-ahead-despite-uc-berkeley-administrations-warnings/ From the Daily Bruin: Eleven people were arrested and protesters shut down Wilshire Boulevard for two and a half hours Wednesday afternoon in the loudest pushback against tuition hikes and state…
Self-parking at an unemployment conference? Shouldn’t a valet be hired? Just asking.
The UCLA Faculty Women’s Club will be hosting yours truly on Tuesday, November 15, 1:30 PM, at the Faculty Center to talk about “Ham and Eggs Pensions in California.” Below is the text from the above announcement. FDR wasn’t the only one who wanted to end destitution among the elderly. Even after Social Security became law, about 80 old-age pension proposals competed for support in California alone. The most prominent and sensational became known as“Ham and Eggs.” It promised “$30 every Thursday” for each unemployed Californian aged 50 or older. The idea was that every pensioner deserved a square meal…
Chancellor Young and Ralph Bunche officially dedicate Bunche Hall in 1969. Information on Nobel peace prize winner Bunche is at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1950/bunche-bio.html Video on Ralph Bunche:
A good view of the ravine that cut through the UCLA campus as of the 1930s. The ravine was later filled in, turning the bridge on the left into a de facto roadway. A sign still notes that it is a bridge with a weight limit.
CaliforniaWatch has an article on older concrete, and potentially earthquake-unsafe, buildings in the state (public and private) at http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/new-seismic-inventory-identifies-potentially-unsafe-buildings-13334 The report links to the underlying survey at http://www.eeri.org/wp-content/uploads/Concrete_Coalition_Final_0911.pdf Page 94 of the underlying survey says there are 12 such buildings at UCLA. A footnote with an incorrect link cites an earlier report on the subject of earthquake-unsafe buildings that listed a larger number of UCLA structures (not all of which are on the Westwood campus). Below is the earlier listing and the correct link to its source: Seismically hazardous buildings in the UC system 3/17/11 UCLA: Center for Health Sciences…
UCLA mathematicians devise an algorithm based on data from the Los Angeles Police Department for the Hollenbeck area east of downtown Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2011 A team of UCLA researchers has delved again into the world of crime fighting, this time developing a computer program capable of pointing police to potential suspects when feuds between rival gangs erupt into violence. The work is the latest contribution in the fast-emerging field of predictive policing — a broad area of study rooted in the notion that it is possible, through sophisticated computer analysis of information about previous crimes,…
