UCLA History: Paving
With construction of the new UCLA campus soon to begin in the neighborhood, street paving in Westwood is undertaken in 1926.
UCLA
UCLA History: International Students
Iranian students at the UCLA International Student Center in 1963.
Throwing Stones in the Well?
The media release below was issued by UCLA yesterday: Campus wins court ruling on Japanese garden sale, extends sale process By Phil Hampton, May 17, 2012 A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has rejected a request for a temporary restraining order to block UCLA’s sale of the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden. While the May 17 ruling confirms UCLA’s right to proceed with the sale of the property at 10619 Bellagio Rd. in Bel-Air, UCLA announced that it will extend the period during which prospective buyers can submit bids. “Even though we are confident that all appropriate steps have been followed and…
Buried in Paper While Trying to Download the EIR for the Proposed UCLA Hotel?
As noted in a prior blog post, the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the proposed UCLA hotel/conference center is available and a public hearing will be held on June 5, 7 pm, at the UCLA Faculty Center. If you tried to download the report from the official site, you may have found downloading around 700 pages slow and difficult. So below, the report is divided into seven parts for easier access. It will also be preserved in an alternative site. Not exactly bedtime reading but… Part 1 Open publication – Free publishing– More ucla Part 2 Open publication – Free…
Off Message?
UCLA often points to its environmentalism, particularly when construction projects are an issue. But in the case described below, someone in the Housing and Hospitality empire seems off message. Below is an email sent today by Prof. Donald Shoup of Urban Planning to Robert Gilbert, Special Assistant to AVC & Sustainability Manager, UCLA Housing and Hospitality Services. It was the latest of a series of emails that went back and forth on the student housing project described in the message. Subject: Master metering wastes electricity in UCLA apartment buildings Dear Robert, Thanks for your message. As I understand our correspondence,…
UCLA History: Un-American
UCLA faculty were called on to testify about “un-American” activities by the state senate “Tenney Committee” in 1946.
UCLA Legislative Assembly to Consider Appeal on MBA Self Sufficiency Proposal
An earlier post today reproduced an excerpt from an article by former UCLA Chancellor Young in which he endorses self sufficiency for at least some UC academic programs. UCLA already has that issue before it. As the notice below indicates, an appeal to the Legislative Assembly has been filed concerning the Anderson School’s MBA Self Sufficiency proposal which the Graduate Council rejected. UCLA Academic Senate May 15, 2012 RE: Important announcement regarding June 7 Legislative Assembly meeting Dear Colleague: I am writing to you in your capacity as a representative to the Legislative Assembly (LgA). We have an important meeting on…
How Big is a 250-Room Hotel? Ask a Duck
Above is the “Radisson at USC” which has 240 rooms. It is right across from the USC campus on Figueroa. It isn’t shy about calling itself a “hotel,” even though it has ten fewer rooms than the proposed facility at UCLA which the administration insists is not really a hotel but rather a “residential conference center” and sometimes just a “conference center.” And yes, the Radisson at USC has conference rooms including a 7,000 square foot ballroom. Do we really need to pretend about what UCLA’s proposed facility is? There is a saying about such pretense… UPDATE: There will be…
Winston Churchill on the Japanese Garden (and the Hotel)
No, not really. But there is this from Churchill: “To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.” ATTRIBUTION: WINSTON CHURCHILL, remarks at a White House luncheon, June 26, 1954. His exact words are not known, because the meetings and the luncheon that day were closed to reporters, but above is the commonly cited version. His words are quoted as “It is ‘better to jaw-jaw than to war-war,’” in the sub-heading on p. 1 of the New York Times, June 27, 1954, and as “To jaw-jaw always is better than to war-war” on p. 3. The Washington Post in its June…
Fratfolder
That was then and this is now. ========================================== The previous post on this blog pointed to an interesting article in Inside Higher Ed about UC. The same edition also has an article about a website, fratfolder.com, which is reported to contain uploads of past exams from various universities, not just UC. I checked and indeed UCLA is among those universities as are other UC campuses. However, before you panic, the collection for UCLA was not comprehensive. Some of what has been uploaded is not exams but rather lecture notes and handouts. And in one case a UC-Santa Barbara instructor was listed…