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Regents Approve UCLA Student Housing Construction Project

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The Regents meetings are audio-streamed. Sadly, as pointed out previously on this blogsite, they are not archived. Yours truly cannot record them all and post them since he has other activities and responsibilities. If there is a good reason why Regents meetings cannot be audio-archived, I have yet to hear it. I did hear, but not record, a bit of yesterday’s Regents meeting at which a construction project for UCLA was among the items approved. The Regents approved the project – replacement and expansion of various student apartment houses near campus. For the proposal, see http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/jan11/gb2a.pdf However, they did so…

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UCLA Faculty Assn. Chair Dwight Read Suggests a Budget Forum to the Chancellor

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Below is the text of a letter sent today by UCLA Faculty Association Chair Dwight Read to Chancellor Block suggesting a budget forum. Gene D. BlockChancellor, UCLA2147 Murphy HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1405 Jan. 18, 2011 Dear Chancellor Block, As Chair of the Faculty Association at UCLA, an independent, voluntary organization of Academic Senate members on this campus, I am writing to you again about the welfare of the University in the current budget crisis.Governor Brown¹s budget proposal cuts $500 million from UC’s budget if the voters extend tax increases for another 5 years. If this source of revenue fails, there…

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UCLA History: Drink Me or Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

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Just a little experiment by a UCLA professor in the 1950s with giving a nice lady LSD at our neighboring VA Hospital: The footage is discussed in the UK Daily Mail at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1348080/Grandma-acid-Researcher-finds-rare-footage-1950s-housewife-LSD-experiment.html Here is a bio of Prof. Cohen, shown in the video: Sidney Cohen conducted early LSD research in the 1950s and was a noted U.S. public expert on drug abuse from the 1960s to the 1980s. Cohen was a Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and served in the Nixon Administration as the first Director, Division of Narcotic Abuse and Drug Addiction at the National Institute of Mental…

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Groundbreaking for Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA in 1964

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Hollywood stars – Bette Davis, Cesar Romero, Gene Kelly, and Bob Hope – turn out with architect Rodney Hemsworth at the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Jules Stein Eye Institute. Maybe it was not surprising that Hollywood types would be prominent in the ceremony since Jules Stein headed MCA. Note: Yours truly will be out of town at a meeting Jan. 7-9 so blogging will be light in that period. The state budget will be unveiled on Jan. 10. Once you see it, you may find your eyes filling with tears. A visit to Jules Stein probably won’t help.