INDEX
2004
March 23,
2004 (Vol. 24, No. 11)
NEWS
BUREAU
BRIEFS
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: About 100 Los Angeles-area
youths will offer their interpretations of the immigrant experience
in dance, spoken word and visual art in “Arrivals,”
to be presented at noon March 24 at Schoenberg Hall.… THE
UCLA COLLEGE: A UCLA sociologist’s scathing critique
of recent American foreign policy has won a prestigious European
book prize.... CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY : UCLA’s
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library has acquired a college notebook
kept by the 19th century wit, playwright and cult figure Oscar Wilde,
as well as the original manuscript of his homosexual lover’s
autobiography.
REGENTS WEIGH OPTIONS
FOR FEE INCREASES
The University of California Board of Regents on March 17 began
looking at alternatives to hefty student fee increases proposed
by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for 2004-05.
GOAL TO RESTORE PUBLIC'S
TRUST
Leaders of UCLA and the University of California vowed
to restore integrity to the campus’ Willed Body Program in
light of allegations that the program’s director had illegally
sold parts of cadavers to an Alta Loma businessman.
NEWS 2
CAMPUS
BRIEFS
POSTDOC STARS: UCLA celebrated the achievements
of 19 postdoctoral fellows at a reception on March 17.... WHEN
ANIMALS FIRST ROAMED: A symposium April 16 will bring
together internationally renowned scientists to UCLA to address
the origin of animals, including how and when animals first appeared
in the Cambrian explosion of life.... AT THE BALLOT BOX:
On March 2, California voters narrowly passed Proposition
55 with a 50.6% to 49.4% vote.... NEW UC PROVOST: On
April 1, M.R.C. Greenwood, chancellor of UC Santa Cruz since 1996,
will become provost and senior vice president of academic affairs,
the second highest post in the UC system.
DID
YOU KNOW?
Employees can now view and update their beneficiaries online. Just
go to http://atyourservice.ucop.edu
and click on “Your Benefits Online,” then log on with
your Social Security number, user name and UC PIN. Then click on
“View Your Beneficiaries.” Once you confirm your changes,
you will be issued a confirmation number.
MESSAGE: WHAT HURTS UC,
HURTS CALIFORNIA
UCLA has honed its advocacy message this year to focus more tightly
on the university’s crucial role in getting California’s
sputtering economic engine back on track.
ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIPS HIT
SEVEN-FIGURE MARK
Alumni Association scholarships for this school year topped the
$1 million mark for the first time in the nearly 70-year history
of the awards. The association distributed $1.03 million in scholarships
for 2003-04.
YESTERDAY,
TODAY & TOMORROW
ELECTION RESULTS: A majority of administrative
professionals voting in a recent systemwide election decided against
exclusive representation by the University Professional and Technical
Employees (UPTE), affiliated with the Communication Workers of America....
RUNNING FREE : A lung patient who once needed
to breathe from an oxygen tank to cross the street completed the
recent 2004 L.A. Marathon in 6 hours and 30 minutes, thanks to a
double lung transplant he had at UCLA Medical Center two years ago....
HIGH HONORS: The School of Theater, Film and Television
was the subject of a retrospective tribute at the 27th Rencontres
Internationales Henri Langlois International Film Schools Festival
in Poitiers, France, March 11-14.... AT THE PODIUM: Carly
Fiorina, chairman and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard,
will be this year’s keynote speaker at the June 19 commencement
of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.
PEOPLE
HE LED PURSUIT OF BREAST-CANCER
VILLAIN
Dennis Slamon, head of clinical/transitional research at UCLA’s
Jonsson Cancer Center, has spent most of his career trying to beat
HER. That’s short for human epidermal growth factor receptor,
a gene that regulates cell growth and sometimes causes cancer.
POET PACKS PUNCH WITH WORDS
Ever since she can remember, Patricia Payne has felt a powerful
calling to both rebel and write.
15 SECONDS
AMY BLUM: Associate
Campus Counsel.
NAMES AND FACES
Good Show: Ollie Van Nostrand ... Sherman
M. Mellinkoff ... Gary Gitnick.
Applause: Charles L. Sawyer ... Peter
Tontonoz ... Patt Morrison.
In Memoriam: Mirella Cheeseman ... Genevieve
S. May .. Tom L. McKnight ... Waldo W. Phelps ... Jayne Spencer
... Morton Gaither Wurtele.
CAMPUS
'ROUND
AND ABOUT
IN THE KNOW:
A panel of UCLA experts with years of experience in state and national
government participated March 4 in a post-election wrap-up moderated
by Dean Barbara J. Nelson of the School of Public Policy and Social
Research.... IN HONOR OF CAREGIVERS: UCLA Early
Care and Education is celebrating 35 years of child care on campus
with a gala dinner honoring June Solnit Sale, who, as director of
UCLA Child Care Services in 1978, revitalized child-care operations
on campus.... STAFF ASSEMBLY AWARDS: UCLA Staff
Assembly is accepting nominations for several awards to be presented
in June to outstanding staff and faculty.... WALK FOR THOSE
WITH AIDS: Join the annual 5K AIDS Walk for Minority Women
and Children, which will take place April 24 from 7:30-10 a.m. at
Cal State Dominguez Hills.
CLUSTERS
MAKE FACULTY LEARNERS TOO
Six years ago, UCLA College Vice Provost Judith L. Smith
decided to take an unusual approach to general education.
PRIZE
HONORS TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY
Dick Cheney is sitting in an airplane, gazing pensively out a window.
“He’s thinking about today’s tough issues,”
a voiceover announces.
REGENTS
ON TOUR HEAR FROM EMPLOYEE, FACULTY
To increase diversity on screen and off in an industry that critics
say lacks color, representatives from government, UCLA and the entertainment
world recommended giving tax incentives to the industry to support
diverse programming and hiring, and more financial aid to film students
of color.
YOU
TOO CAN PROUDLY SAY, 'I GAVE AT THE OFFICE'
One
of the first things that Joan Kollar did after joining the staff
at UCLA was to start a payroll deduction for United Way. That was
20 years ago and she hasn’t missed a month since.
VOICES
GLOBAL VIEW INSPIRES PUBLIC
SERVICE
At a conference in Prague several years ago, an irritated World
Bank president lost his cool. Snapping at those who likened his
Washington-based international anti-poverty bank to a walled-up
country club for dilettante economists and bumbling bureaucrats,
James D. Wolfensohn thundered that the bank’s 10,000 employees
were not evil: “They do not get up every day and say, ‘How
can we screw the poor?’ ”
GO TO SOURCE OF 'PASSION'
Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ”
purports to be a faithful rendering of the Passion accounts of
the Gospels. To my mind, it’s close enough, and I am sure
that many of those who see the film will agree.
WHAT'S ON MY MIND:
CHR PROGRAM HELPED HIM REACH
HIS CAREER GOALS
When I first started working at UCLA, I knew I was joining
a renowned institution, “a beacon of excellence in higher
education,” to quote Chancellor Albert Carnesale. But I
didn’t know I was joining an institution that maintains
a strong commitment to, and investment in, its most important
resource — human potential.
OUR WORLD by
MATTHEW HENRY HALL
CLOSE UP
LEVEY DISCUSSES WILLED
BODY PROGRAM
In light of a UC Police Department investigation of the
medical school’s Willed Body Program and the arrest of its
director on suspicion of grand theft, UCLA Today Editor Cynthia
Lee talked with Gerald S. Levey, vice chancellor of UCLA Medical
Sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine, about
the case and the steps being taken to correct problems uncovered
by the university.
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