Back in the day, folks used to talk about “bankers’ hours,” meaning 9 am to 3 pm. When yours truly went by the “work” site of the UCLA Grand Hotel a little after 3 pm yesterday, not a soul was visible. Ground View View from on high No rush, of course:[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=846uDvMuReg?feature=player_detailpage]
The Santa Monica Patch features the map you see on the left which breaks down the local area around UCLA by Census tract and color codes the number of “creative class” workers in each. If you go to the actual article (link below), you can move around the area and show tracts around the city. It takes some fooling around with your mouse to do it. The image you see here is just a picture; you can’t use it directly; you have to go to the link.. …”‘Creative class’” mean(s) people working in management, business, science, and the arts”… According to…
This might come in handy. From the Daily Bruin: University of California President Janet Napolitano will meet with more than a dozen UCLA students Friday to discuss several student concerns, such as undocumented student demands for Napolitano, revenue solutions for the UC and support for graduate students. The committee of students invited to talk with Napolitano over lunch include UCLA undergraduate and graduate student government representatives, as well as student leaders from the Muslim Student Association, Bruins for Israel and the undocumented student group, Improving Dreams, Equality, Access and Success, known as IDEAS, said Avi Oved, internal vice president of…
Apparently, we’re soon to be in the picture business. From the UCLA Newsroom: The UCLA Health System and the Motion Picture and Television Fund have signed a letter of intent that would bring MPTF’s six outpatient health centers under the UCLA umbrella. This partnership between two of Los Angeles’ iconic institutions will mean that entertainment industry members and their families can continue to get health care at MPTF facilities, with the added advantage of being able to access UCLA’s world-renowned specialty care and inpatient services… After completing a definitive agreement and securing board approval, the MPTF and UCLA plan to integrate the two operations in…
These days, Nobel prizes are often shared among researchers. It’s interesting that those who win Nobel prizes are also shared among universities. From the UCLA Newsroom: UCLA alumnus Randy Schekman, a professor of molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley, has won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his role in figuring out how proteins are secreted and transported in human cells. He shares the prize with James E. Rothman of Yale University and Thomas C. Südhof of Stanford University for solving the mystery of how the cell organizes its transport system. Schekman became the seventh UCLA…
Note: Readers of this blog will have been alerted to the situation below in an earlier posting. UCLA has gone to court to overturn a decision that could force it to give up its baseball stadium on land leased from the U.S. veterans agency. The university described itself as a “surprising casualty” of an August ruling that the Department of Veterans Affairs violated federal law by leasing part of its sprawling West Los Angeles campus for commercial use. In court papers, UCLA asked to be heard by the court before the order is enforced in February. The motion was joined…
Westwood in 1948 From Zócalo: John Burke and I, Class of 1948 graduates of Mt. Carmel High School, and new UCLA students, sat quietly, bewildered, on the lawn of the quad eating our brown bag lunches. Around us swirled groups of stylishly dressed, exuberant students greeting one another and sharing stories of just-ended summer vacations. John was distraught. He had received the results of the Subject A Examination, administered to determine whether he would be required to take English 28, a remedial class. John, a very good student, had failed the test; I had passed. He did not recover from…
Above is a picture of a proposed Marriott Hotel in Santa Monica currently being reviewed by that city’s Planning Commission for the corner of Colorado and 5th Street. It would have 136 rooms. The UCLA Grand Hotel, in contrast, will have 250 rooms. My calculator tells me that 136/250 = 54%. So the UCLA Grand Hotel will be almost double what you see above. Just something you might want to know.
Yesterday, we provided a link to UCLA’s “shame media release” on the recent court decision regarding the Grand Hotel project. You might not be totally surprised to know that there is an alternative view of what occurred. You might not be totally surprised to know that the alternative view projects a more favorable view regarding the plaintiff’s position. But in case you ARE surprised, we provide a link below for reading the alternative:
The LA County DA continues to pursue a case against a UCLA faculty member that sure seems like a matter for civil, not criminal, litigation. Will common sense prevail in the DA’s office? So far, no sign of it happening. From the Daily Bruin: At a pretrial hearing Thursday, a Los Angeles County judge ordered UCLA chemistry professor Patrick Harran to return to court next month regarding a lawsuit that involves the death of a UCLA lab assistant in a 2008 laboratory fire.Harran is expected back in court on Nov. 20, said Daniel Prince, a lawyer representing Harran. His trial…
