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Can’t we all get along?

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From today’s Inside Higher Ed (excerpt): UCLA wants to revamp general education requirement Kaustuv Basu, April 30, 2012 Critics of a proposal by the University of California Los Angeles to add a compulsory course on community and conflict to its general education requirements for the College of Letters and Science say that the idea say is akin to peddling old wine in a new bottle, and not much different from a diversity requirement that was voted down by faculty in 2004. Next month, faculty members are expected to vote on the measure, variations of which have been decades in the…

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Wider Lessons to Be Learned (Even at UCLA!) from UC-Davis’s Pepper Spray Report

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Yours truly does a “Mitchell’s Musings” weekly blog for the Employment Policy Research Network (http://www.employmentpolicy.org/) of which he is senior academic editor.  Normally, this blog and that one don’t cover similar topics.  But in this case they do so I cross-post below. Could there be some lessons for UCLA that emerge from the UC-Davis pepper-spray incident?  Could there even be some linkage to UCLA’s proposed hotel/conference center? Might be!  Fair and balanced; you decide! ===== Mitchell’s Musings 4-30-12: The Real Pepper-Flavored Lessons of Hindsight Daniel J.B. Mitchell By now, the world has become aware of the University of California-Davis’ “pepper-spray cop,”…

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No Japanese Garden at May Regents Meeting

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Death Knell Rings For Hannah Carter Garden Beverly Hills Courier 4/26/12 By Laura Coleman On Wednesday, UCLA denied the Coalition to Save the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden an opportunity to address the UC Board of Regents during its meeting on May 15-17 in a letter from University of California President Mark Yudof.  The May 22 deadline to bid on the UCLA-owned garden and former Carter residence, listed by Coldwell Banker for a total of $14.7 million, had prompted community activists opposed to the impending sale to redouble their efforts to place the issue on the agenda for the upcoming Regents…

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Westwood Problems and the Hotel: An Explainer

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Westwood in the past seemed a more prosperous place than at present.  Above we see Bullocks-Westwood Department Store in the early 1950s (based on the cars depicted) and an ad featuring Bullocks-Westwood in the 1930s.  (The store was rebuilt between the two photos.)  Below we see the same location, now home of a Ralphs supermarket and a Best Buy.  There used to be a drug store also at that location but it closed.  Now it has been announced that the Best Buy will also close. If you walk up Westwood Boulevard from Wilshire towards UCLA, what is notable is the…

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Don’t Do It!

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Did you get a message like the one below in your email recently? Fraud.  Don’t click on it.  Delete it. Bruin OnLine is pleased to announce that we have increased size limits with several Bruin OnLine services. We have again increased your email quota to a final size of 1GB. Along with your email quota, message size limits have been increased to 35MB, with a per attachment size limit of 25MB. And finally, we also increased the file size limits of your online file storage. The original file size limit was doubled to now support 10MB files. Kindly log on ucla.edu/increase to…

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More Bad Traffic News for UCLA Night Owls

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Wilshire Blvd. traffic problems tonight: WILSHIRE BLVD.: Wilshire Bl eastbound 1, 2 lanes closed at Sepulveda Bl tonight, 10pm to 6am. http://t.co/U6bCOXrIWILSHIRE BLVD.: Wilshire Bl westbound 1, 2 lanes closed near Sepulveda Bl tonight, 10pm to 6am. http://t.co/EuOYUVn2 WILSHIRE BLVD.: Sepulveda Bl reduced to one lane each direction from Salvation Army facilities to Wilshire Bl tonight, 9pm to 5am. WILSHIRE BLVD.: Westbound I-10 connector to northbound I-405 closed tonight, midnight to 5am. http://t.co/jp1EJHjI WILSHIRE BLVD.: Eastbound I-10 connector to southbound I-405 closed tonight, 10pm to 9am. http://t.co/ZaMgCzdK Source: http://www.metro.net/projects/I-405/

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Continuing Our Series on How Big is a 250-Room Hotel

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In previous posts, we have reported on some proposed Santa Monica hotel projects and their size, to give you an idea as to how big the 250-room hotel/conference center proposed by UCLA really is.  But rather than focus on proposed hotels, here are some statistics on actual hotels in the area that were reported as part of a proposal to remodel the Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica.Santa Monica   Miramar Hotel………….296 rooms   Casa Del Mar…………..129 rooms   Shutters on the Beach…..198 roomsBeverly Hills   Beverly Hills Hotel…….210 rooms   Beverly Wilshire……….395 rooms   Montage……………….201 rooms   Peninsula Hotel………..193 roomsLos Angeles   Four Seasons LA………..285 rooms   Hotel Bel…