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Waiting for Details on the September 11-13 Regents Meeting

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The Regents are meeting Sept. 11-13 at UC-San Francisco.  Below is the preliminary agenda – which includes the architectural plans for UCLA’s Hotel Super-Grandeand an “Action Approval” for some plans related to Health Sciences at UCLA.  At the moment (7 am today), the detailed agenda items are not yet posted. Tuesday September 11 1:00 pm Committee on Compliance and Audit (Regents only session) 1:10 pm Committee of the Whole – Public Comment (open session) 1:30 pm Committee on Compliance and Audit (open session) 3:00 pm Committee on Grounds and Buildings (open session) including: GB3 Action Amendment of the Long Range…

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The Approval of the Self-Sustaining MBA Seems to be Unsustainable

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The Daily Bruin is reporting in an article dated 8/31/12 that the on-again-off-again move towards a “self sufficient” MBA program is off again: A UC Academic Senate committee voted to suspend their review of the Anderson School of Management’s proposal to become financially self-supporting, according to a memo sent to the school today.  …The proposal passed the UCLA Legislative Assembly in June. To take effect, it needed to go through the UC Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs and the UC Office of the President. The graduate affairs committee voted 10-0-1 to halt the review.  Members of the committee decided to…

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No “Ramp Jam” at Wilshire/Pension Deal Excluding UC Goes to Brown

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Commuters to UCLA will know that the Wilshire ramps to the I-405 have been closed for construction. That project was termed “Ramp Jam” but apparently the jam is gone.  At least some of the causes for traffic jams near UCLA as a result of the construction on the 405 are ending:=== The westbound Wilshire Boulevard onramp to the northbound 405 Freeway and the northbound 405’s offramp to westbound Wilshire will reopen Friday—three weeks earlier than planned, according to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The ramps were closed June 22 in the first phase of a yearlong effort to demolish…

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UCLA: How about Buying Palomar?

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No, not the observatory.  The Palomar Hotel on Wilshire, a short distance from UCLA.  Back in March, the Regents asked why UCLA didn’t buy the W Hotel rather than build its own.  The W may not be for sale.  But the nearby Palomar Hotel is. See below.  And cheap, too.  Just a thought! UPDATE: We could have bought the W Hotel but it would have been twice as much, although considerably less than the planned UCLA hotel (which comes with free land, unlike the W).http://www.globest.com/news/12_423/losangeles/hotel/W-Los-Angeles-Hotel-Changes-Hands-for-125M-324549.html

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Is UCLA Missing Out on a Two-for-One Sale on Its Hotel?

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I happened to be looking at a listing of major construction projects in LA County that appeared this week in the LA Business Journal.*  Now we all know that UCLA is proposing to build a 250-room hotel for $162 million.  But in downtown LA, Marriott is building a two-hotel structure – 28 stories high! – for only $172 million.  That’s right; two hotels for a little more than UCLA is getting one.  Of course, they’re not quite as big.  One is 174 rooms and the other is 218 rooms.  But still, you do get 28 stories which would really give…

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LA Business Journal Editorial on the UCLA Hotel: Shrink It!

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UCLA Hotel Reservations: Editorial (excerpt) Charles Crumpley, Editor, LA Business Journal,  August 27, 2012 …(M)any businesses are fine with the conference center. It’s the hotel they have reservations about. They fear it’ll bottle up the visitors. Since conference goers will only have to go upstairs to their rooms, they won’t need to walk to a nearby hotel. That means they’ll be far less likely to dine or drink or watch a movie in Westwood. …And the nearby hotels? Well, you can imagine they hate UCLA’s proposed hotel. For one thing, there’ll be plenty of rooms at the inn – 250…

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UCLA History: Rheingold Loser

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Rheingold was a regional beer in the New York City area for decades until the brewery went out of business in the mid-1970s.  As a promotion, it sponsored a “Miss Rheingold” contest as the pictures on the left indicate. (The label was revived by another company in the 1990s and apparently the contest is being revived, too.) In the 1963 contest, a UCLA grad was one of the six finalists. She is one of the six in the black and white photo. Which one is not known.  And she didn’t win. (The actual winner is shown in the picture on…