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After World War II, a UCLA graduate was arrested as being “Tokyo Rose.” She was convicted but later pardoned by President Gerald Ford. The story below: The Painful Ordeal of Tokyo Rose “L.A. Then And Now” section of the Los Angeles Times 5/24/98by Cecilia Rasmussen She was a soldier’s seductress whose sexy taunts earned her imprisonment, loss of her U.S. citizenship, and, ultimately, the derisive nickname “Rose With Thorns.” American GIs serving in the Pacific Theater during World War II knew her as “Tokyo Rose”, Imperial Japan’s radio propagandist whose infamous nickname became her curse. Wronged by her country and…
The more technological among our readers may have an interest in the program announcement below: Building an Entrepreneurial University Monday, October 3, 2011 3:00-6:00 pm CNSI Auditorium Please join us for a presentation by Professor William Ouchi to discuss new opportunities now being created at UCLA to support university inventors, followed by a conversation with the audience about the value of synergy between the academic and industrial communities, and highlighting ways they can work together to create a robust entrepreneurial ecosystem. California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA 570 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095 Registration at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=9ulm8oeab&oeidk=a07e4vl8hxzee3adec5&oseq=a004gjhnqkl5
Officials on the way to opening day ceremonies at the new Westwood campus of UCLA in 1929.
A student at UCLA had a summer vacation he’ll never forget. (Excerpt from CBS News below – See also earlier post on this blog.): Chris Jeon traveled thousands of miles to live with the rebels battling Muammar Qaddafi in Libya. As CBS News contributor Priya David Clemens reported on “The Early Show” Monday, Jeon got a first-hand look at what he calls “one of the only real revolutions” in the world. Jeon, a math major who’s from Mission Viejo, Calif., was side-by-side with the rebels during the liberation of the town of Nofaliya. Even though he spoke no Arabic, Jeon…
Thomas Edison visits the campus of the State Normal School in 1915. The Normal School campus on Vermont Avenue later became the first location of UCLA before the move in the late 1920s to Westwood. The Vermont Avenue campus is now the location of LA City College.
Some excerpts from the LA Times story on today’s UCLA Anderson Forecast: The national economy is in “far worse” shape than it was just three months ago, but neither the U.S. nor California is expected to slip back into recession, according to UCLA researchers. The U.S. economy has “stalled,” the job market is “horrible,” and even a “modest shock” could trigger a full-blown recession, according to a quarterly economic forecast released Tuesday by UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. But in a nuance that only an economist could appreciate, a recession is unlikely because the forces that normally spur downturns, such…
There is an interesting article today in Inside Higher Ed concerning a controversy at the U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign regarding proposed limits on the use of university email and limits on use of non-university email accounts for university business. In the background of these issues are requests for emails at public universities by conservative groups, using state-level equivalents of the federal Freedom of Information Act. (California has such a law.) You can find the article at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/09/12/controversy_over_e_mail_policy_proposed_at_u_of_illinois It contains links to an AAUP letter protesting the proposed policies.
A widely reproduced news photo of UCLA students watching TV report of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
There has been much talk about the “New Normal” as a description of the current depressed economy. As earlier posts have noted, UCLA evolved out of the state normal school that once stood where the LA main library is located. This blog recently posted a lithograph of the school. This is an actual photograph from the late 1800s. The school was moved to Vermont Avenue where it became UCLA’s first campus. The location became the home of LA Community College after UCLA moved to Westwood in the late 1920s.
