A growing list of UCLA faculty call on Chancellor and Provost to account for the use of Jackie Robinson Stadium by the Los Angeles Police Department to detain and process demonstrators arrested in protests against police violence.
The following statement has been circulating among faculty today and has about 80 co-signers as of Wednesday afternoon. We Support the College Diversity Requirement We, the undersigned faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, express our enthusiastic support for a College Diversity Requirement for students within the College of Letters and Science. Our signatures reflect our confidence in the process, proposal, and the expected benefits of such a requirement for our students and our campus more generally. We recognize fully that for over 30 years, generations of students have worked hard alongside faculty in achieving this goal and now…
UCLA faculty with appointments in the College of Letters and Science are voting this week on a proposed Diversity Requirement for undergraduate students in the College. The vote is open between October 24th and October 31st. The Academic Senate has an extensive informational site (votediversity.ucla.edu) that includes documentation on the requirement, a frequently asked questions section, and a forum for faculty to share information and views on the requirement. The forum includes six separate faculty statements in support of the requirement, and one statement in opposition. An additional statement in support circulating on Wednesday has garnered about 80 co-signers. The…
Click on the link below:[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0dGRDvmO54?feature=player_detailpage]For those who take a more clinical approach to such matters, see:http://wamc.org/post/dr-robert-levenson-university-california-berkeley-genetics-marital-bliss
The plaintiffs in the case against the UCLA Grand Hotel have filed an amended brief. You can read it at the link below. There are actually two cases, one involving environmental and other matters and another regarding the tax issue. The environmental case will be heard in September. And there is legal skirmishing around the tax case. The tax issue is basically that if the hotel is a commercial operation, it has to pay taxes just as would any other hotel. There is also an issue of whether the Regents can run a commercial enterprise and, if that’s what they…
But not on the 405 Southbound I-405 (all lanes) will be closed between US 101 and Getty Center Drive on the morning of Thursday, February 13th from midnight until 5 am. When: Midnight-5 am on Thursday, February 13th Where: I-405 Southbound between US 101 and Getty Center Drive
The LA Times picks up a story about an anti-Asian flyer – possibly from the Daily Bruin‘s earlier coverage – that has provoked student protests. You can find the Times‘ story at:http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ucla-police-black-judge-racial-profiling-20140203,0,4010058.story Faithful blog readers will know that we are tracking the sad tale of LA Superior Court Judge David Cunningham III who was caught driving while black in Westwood by UCLA police and has filed a $10 million complaint against the university. The good judge is a past head of the LA Police Commission. There was no apology from Murphy Hall. There was just a vague statement that we…
UCLA has a variety of exchange arrangements with China as the image of the UCLA Confucius Institute on the left suggests. While these arrangements can be mutually beneficial, the university can also find itself in a difficult position when and if things go wrong. The NY Times carries a story dated Feb. 9 about a professor from Peking University who was a visiting professor at UCLA. While here, he made some statements that ultimately led to his discharge at his home university and to quasi-exile in the U.S.: …Peking University allowed Professor Xia to leave China to become a visiting…
Not to worry. One of UCLA’s parking facilities has info on what number to call to make it right:
Simon and Garfunkel once sang about the “Sound of Silence.” When rain forced the weekly networking event at Anderson indoors last Thursday, silence was not what was heard: It was more like a typical deafening LA trendy restaurant. Back in Simon and Garfunkel’s day, the occupation of choice was in “plastics.” Soon it will be in hearing aids.
