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Permanent? No Exit?

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UCLA Facilities Management is circulating the message: Traffic Notice Full Closure Description The Montana Avenue off-ramp from northbound I-405 will close permanently at 6 am on Monday, November 25th. The I-405 northbound off-ramp to Sunset Boulevard will be reopen at the same time. When: Monday, November 25th at 6 am Where: I-405 Northbound Off-ramp to Montana; I-405 Northbound Off-ramp to Sunset  ===What is unclear is whether the closure on Montana is really permanent.  When yours truly went to the Facilities Management website from which this message is supposed to have derived, there was no mention of a permanent closure of…

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JFK Talks with Pat Brown and Jerry Brown

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JFK at UCLA: Nov. 2, 1959 Since today is the fiftieth anniversary of the JFK assassination, there is much in the news media about that event.  Rather than focus on that episode, we present a) the photo you see of Kennedy as a senator speaking at UCLA in 1959, and b) a Dictabelt recording of Kennedy talking on the phone as president to Governor Pat Brown and son Jerry Brown in 1962. Some background: Various recording technologies were in use in the early 1960s.  Tape and wire recorders were introduced in the period after World War II.  (Germany had made…

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Broken Links to UCLA Grand Hotel project

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It has been brought to the attention of yours truly that some of the links and embedding to earlier blog posts about the UCLA Grand Hotel (and other topics) no longer operate.  Facebook has been used for such broken links, particularly as we go back in time, and Facebook seems to be not-so-good at maintaining embedding on blog posts.  Rather than go back and try to repair each broken link, we provide a listing below of all Facebook links that relate to the Grand Hotel project.  [In the future, as time permits, we may do the same for other topics.] …

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Limited Order Bars Only About 50 Workers from UC One-Day Strike Today

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Westwood demonstration during prior 2-day strike We noted yesterday that UC sought an order through PERB barring certain critical workers from the one-day strike today. According to the State Worker blog of the Sacramento Bee: …A judge has banned a relative handful of employees who provide patient care at University of California medical facilities from participating in a statewide strike set for Wednesday.  Sacramento County Superior Court Judge David I. Brown said that a strike by about 50 AFSCME-covered employees, mostly respiratory theratpists, would “create a substantial and imminent threat to the health and safety of the public and patients…

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Possible Order Limiting Hospital Strike Participation Tomorrow

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Westwood demonstration as part of prior 2-day strike The State Worker blog of the Sacramento Bee is reporting that the Public Employment Relations Board is seeking to limit the number of AFSCME employees at UC who can participate in tomorrow’s hospital strike for safety reasons.  [An earlier posting on this blog noted that a tentative settlement with nurses indicated nurses would not participate.]  TAs who might participate would presumably be unaffected by the PERB action. The Bee article is at:http://www.sacbee.com/2013/11/19/5924205/uc-medical-centers-bracing-for.html

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UCLA History: Extension – May 1931

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This contemporary photo shows the location of the UC Extension office in downtown LA in 1931.  As is evident, the original office building is no longer there.  But if you click on the link below, you can read the extension catalog for May 1931 which featured a variety of courses on business, languages, history, and “Radio Telephony and Talking Moving Pictures.”  At the time, the extension service was run out of Berkeley with representation for the LA programs from UCLA. We had earlier posted similar catalogs:http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2011/05/ucla-history-extension-in-1930.html http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2011/12/in-earlier-posts-scroll-to-bottom-we.html http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2011/06/ucla-history-uc-extension-in-september.html Link below to the May 1931 edition:

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Noted UCLA Sociologist Suzanne Bianchi Dies

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Suzanne M. Bianchi, a UCLA sociologist who helped alter perceptions of working mothers during three decades investigating changes in American family life, died Nov. 4 at her home in Santa Monica. She was 61. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said her daughter Jennifer Browning. An expert on gender, work and families, Bianchi was best known for her research examining the amount of time mothers spent with their children. Most surprising was the finding she reported in 2000 that despite a dramatic influx of women into the workforce, the amount of time spent with children was relatively unchanged… She began her…

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New Nurse Contract Said to Avert Participation in Nov. 20 Strike

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Nurses at UCLA Hospital, 1955 From the LA Now blog of the LA Times: The University of California reached a tentative contract agreement with unionized nurses at its medical and student-health facilities, averting a one-day walkout that had been scheduled for Wednesday. The four-year agreement still needs to be voted on by the 11,700 UC nurses who belong to the California Nurses Assn., or CNA. Contract highlights released by UC call for annual 4% pay increases through 2017. The nurses have agreed not to join in a one-day strike on Wednesday in sympathy with a walkout still scheduled by the…