UCLA History: Aerial View of Vermont Avenue Campus
This photo, taken in 1922, shows the UCLA campus on Vermont Avenue before the move to Westwood later in that decade.
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UCLA History: A View of UCLA’s Former Vermont Avenue Campus
UCLA was located on Vermont Avenue – where LA City College is now found – until the move to Westwood in the late 1920s. UCLA History Project.
UCLA History: Westwood Song
A song was apparently written to mark UCLA’s move to Westwood in the late 1920s. Sadly, the words and any recording seem to have vanished.
UCLA History: Four Westwood scenes from the 1920s to the 1950s
Four scenes of Westwood. The top photo shows the construction of a Ralphs grocery store near the soon-to-be-opened UCLA campus in the 1920s. Below that is a view alongside the store in the 1940s, possibly taken by famed photographer Ansel Adams. (He took several photos of the building at the time and this one looks similar to others on the web.) The bottom two photos were taken in the same location in the 1950s. Nowadays, the former Ralphs building houses a coffee shop. Question: Why is there no apostrophe in “Ralphs”?Answer: Because the founder was named George Ralphs.
How many crises can we have on campus?
I thought we had enough troubles on campus, what with the budget crisis and the pension crisis. But today, while I was on my way towards the (soon-to-be-demolished) UCLA Faculty Club, I spotted this sign with yet more crises to worry about.
Neighborhood Group Raises Concerns About Proposed Hotel to Replace Faculty Club While Faculty Welfare Committee Makes Environmental Proposals
A neighborhood association has raised procedural – and possibly legal – objections to the replacement of the UCLA Faculty Club with a Hotel/Conference Center which at latest word is to have over 280 rooms. Two letters from the association have been obtained by the Emeriti Committee. The first is a short, 2-page letter reproduced below. The second is a 14-page letter with much more detail. Both the short letter – which is hard to reproduce clearly as an image – and the longer one are available as a single pdf file at: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BzVLYPK7QI_4N2Q0ZDRiYzMtZDRhMy00YWRkLTlkNjYtNjkyZWQ1YTVjYzY5&hl=en The “CEQA” review to which both letters…
More UCLA Undergrads Reported to Graduate On Time: Higher Tuition Cited
Yesterday’s Daily Bruin carries a report that 4-year graduation rates are rising at UCLA. Excerpts from the article below:Statistics show increase in undergraduate students who graduate in four years Crystal Hsing, Jan. 31, 2011 In the past year, the proportion of undergraduate students who finished their degrees in four years rose to an all-time high of 70 percent. The increase in the four-year graduation rate is tied to many factors, including the rising cost of education, the administration’s initiatives to streamline academic curricula, and increased competition among applicants, said Robert Cox, the manager for institutional research at the UCLA Office…
Then Vice-Chancellor (later Chancellor) Charles Young deals with student demonstrators in 1965. UCLA History Project.
Big Money for UCLA from Chicken Feed? Hotel Project Will Still Require Big Bond Issue
Note: As you read the item below, note that the hotel project still will require considerable bond financing. See the bold italics. UCLA gets $100-million donation: Half of the gift from Meyer Luskin and his wife, Renee, will go to the School of Public Affairs…. The rest will go toward building an on-campus hotel and conference center. Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 26, 2011 A UCLA alumnus who earned a fortune in the animal feed business is donating $100 million to the Westwood campus for its school of public affairs and the controversial construction of an on-campus hotel and…
UCLA History: New Chemistry Building in 1929
Opening the chemistry building (now Haines) in 1929. UCLA History Project.