Following our Halloween tradition (“tradition” because we did it last year), we present a truly scary story – from which the picture just above is taken – below in four short parts: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Of course, there are other things that can be scary as prior posts have noted:
The 405 is a mess nowadays due to construction. In 1966, it was briefly a mess when UCLA students invaded protesting exclusion from the Rose Bowl.
If you are like me, you will have received the postcard above last week (despite the Sept. 27 date), inviting you to look at UCLA’s crime data. But if you took up the invitation on the card to visit the website, you got the message above: Under Maintenance: The site you are trying to reach is temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance. The website will be accessible shortly. We apologize for the inconvenience and ask for your patience. So we patiently await: Update: The website is back up. You can go directly to the crime data at http://www.ucpd.ucla.edu/2011/2010%20Clery%20Statistics.pdf
Early aerial view of the UCLA Westwood campus also shows the reservoir north of Sunset Blvd.
What you see above is a screenshot of a website designed by Professor Emeritus R. Clay Sprowls, a professor of statistics at what is now the Anderson School from 1951 until 1990 when he retired. The dean of the Anderson School last night circulated an email obituary of Prof. Sprowls. Mentioned in the obit was the above-website which provides a history of computing at the School from the 1950s through the 1970s. Although it is largely specific to the School, I suspect there were similar events going on around the campus as computing was introduced to the university and then…
Inside Higher Ed reported yesterday that the governor of Florida thinks its a waste of money to offer degrees in anthropology at public universities in his state. http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/popup/news/2011/10/12/florida_governor_challenges_idea_of_non_stem_degrees Today it turns out that his daughter majored in anthropology, albeit at an out-of-state private college http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/10/13/qt#272765 I don’t know why he thinks anthropology degrees are expensive to provide. You can have them for a song:
Aerial view of UCLA’s Vermont Avenue campus in 1922.
A view of the UCLA medical center, circa 1959, above. The structure was used in the intro to a TV series, “Medical Center,” that aired from 1969 to 1976. See below:
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