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UCLA History: Sept. 1930 Extension Catalog

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In earlier posts (scroll to bottom), we reproduced some UC Extension catalogs from the early 1930s from the LA area.  I have now located another catalog – this one from September 1930. The Extension operation operated out of a building on 8th and Hill Street in downtown LA with sites for courses scattered around the County and out to Ventura and Riverside.  Extension appears to have been run out of Berkeley (UCLA was still the “Southern Branch” of UC and had just moved to its Westwood location) but the UCLA provost was later represented on its controlling board.  He is…

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Efforts to Designate Faculty Center as Historic Structure Continuing

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CurbedLA reports that in the aftermath of the controversy over demolishing the UCLA Faculty Center for a hotel/conference center (now proposed to be located elsewhere), the LA Conservancy is continuing efforts to protect the building.  In part it is doing so by holding events there – see below.  In part it is trying to get a designation of the Faculty Center as an historical resource – also see below.  The photo shows tea on the opening day of the Faculty Center in 1959. WESTWOOD: The LA Conservancy’s Modern Committee is giving out its third annual set of Modern Masters Awards…

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UCLA as Cornell

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As anyone who has been on the UCLA campus for a period of time knows, the campus is often used for movie and TV locations.  Recently, in the 2011 film “Water for Elephants,” UCLA briefly became Cornell, as the photo from the film shows.  (The plot involves a veterinary student at Cornell whose studies are interrupted by a family tragedy and joins the circus during the 1930s.)  UCLA has rules about filming on campus, reproduced in italic below. FAQs for Film and Photography Shoots at UCLA Summary: Here are the answers to your most frequently asked questions. How much notice…

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UCLA History: Havel

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Václav Havel, the former dissident playwright and president of Czechoslovakia who died yesterday, visited UCLA on October 25, 1991 when the Czech and Slovak parts of Czechoslovakia were still somewhat united.  He received the UCLA Medal.  Oddly, the LA Times made little reference to the event – at least so it appears after a significant web search.  Apparently, Havel was originally supposed to come on April 18, 1991, according to an LA Times story the previous February: See http://articles.latimes.com/1991-02-07/news/we-1183_1_czech-leader However, it seems that the April date was postponed.  I found no reference to the actual visit in the LA Times,…

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Still Awaiting the Business Plan for the Hotel/Conference Center

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It’s been over a week since Faculty Association Executive Director Susan Gallick offered to come over and get the business plan for the proposed hotel/conference center. As readers of this blog will recall, the Faculty Association has submitted a Public Records Act request for the plan and so far received no plan or any related documents.See her offer at http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2011/12/public-documents-request-on-hotel-we.htmlUnderneath any enterprise, there has to be a sound business plan. So can we peel back the pretty (but “conceptual”) drawings of the hotel and have the plan revealed? Perhaps this video will help set the mood:

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UCLA History: Mural

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The Sacramento Bee today carries a story about the restoration of the 1970s’ Great Wall of LA mural, shown above, associated with UCLA Professor Judith Baca. See: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/11/4114541/los-angeles-reconsiders-mural.html and also an earlier piece from UCLA Today: http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/judy-baca-great-wall-of-la-216853.aspx