INDEX
2004
August 17,
2004 (Vol. 25, No. 1)
NEWS
BUREAU
BRIEFS
OLYMPIC ATHLETES: In keeping with its impressive
Olympic tradition, UCLA has sent 55 players and coaches to the 2004
Summer Games in Athens, Greece. Bruin athletes have struck gold
in every Olympics since 1932, with the exception of the boycotted
1980 Games.... ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE: The opening
of the Edythe L. and Eli Broad Center is a year away, but already
excitement is building because of news that internationally renowned
sculptor Richard Serra has created a 42.5-ton, untitled, steel torqued
ellipse to be installed in front of the new building.... THE
COLLEGE: Despite a nationwide drop in cultural exchange
programs with Muslim countries, UCLA’s Language Resource Center
last month welcomed 10 educators from the former Soviet republic
of Uzbekistan, a secular country with a Muslim majority.
CAMPUS PUTS
BUDGET PLAN INTO ACTION
The budget plan campus leaders have been developing for almost a
year is now in place to cope with a reduction of roughly $35 million
in state funding and $13 million in new costs that won’t be
covered by state funds. These costs cover such priorities as utilities,
deferred maintenance, graduate student support and academic preparation
(outreach).
REGENTS
BACK STAFF SEAT
After seven years of asking for a seat at the UC Board of Regents’
table alongside student and faculty representatives, UC staff came
one step closer to getting an invitation to join.
NEWS 2
CAMPUS
BRIEFS
CUTTING OUT THE FAT: The California Performance
Review Commission, which is holding public hearings around the state
on controversial and wide-ranging recommendations to increase efficiency
in state government, includes some familiar faces.... THE
WEST'S BEST FOR 15 YEARS: UCLA Medical Center ranks as
the best hospital in the western United States for the 15th consecutive
year, according to a U.S. News & World Report nationwide survey
of 2,550 board-certified physicians.... TOP PICK FOR BERKELEY:
Robert J. Birgeneau, an internationally distinguished physicist
and current president of the University of Toronto, has been tapped
to be UC Berkeley’s new chancellor.... EDUCATIONAL
INEQUITIES: Fifty years after the historic Brown vs. Board
of Education ruling, many Los Angeles students continue to attend
racially segregated schools that lack the resources necessary for
student learning, according to a new report by UCLA’s Institute
for Democracy, Education and Access (IDEA).
DID YOU KNOW?
With roughly 15,000 community college students transferring to UC
campuses this fall, 2004 marks the sixth consecutive year of universitywide
growth in the number of transfer students. UCLA admitted 5,003 transfer
students for the fall term.
GRAD
STUDENTS SETTLE INTO NEW WEYBURN TERRACE
It was finally home, sweet home for the first
residents of UCLA’s new graduate student community at Weyburn
Terrace. Last month, Palm Court became the first of seven Mediterranean-style
courtyard complexes to open. Approximately 175 graduate students
are expected to move in for the start of fall quarter.
YESTERDAY,
TODAY & TOMORROW
TRANSPORTATION SERVICES: Transportation
officials have revamped the routes of campus shuttle buses that
carry an average of 5,000 passengers daily.... HOT SUMMER
NIGHTS : Temperatures weren’t the only numbers heating
up this summer. So was attendance at a free concert series at the
Hammer Museum featuring DJs and musicians from Tijuana and Mexico
City.... LOST ... AND REPLACED: It took 63 years,
but Nao Takasugi, 82, will finally get a UCLA letterman’s
sweater to replace the one he lost when he was forced to leave his
studies at UCLA in 1941.
PEOPLE
WORKING
TO REFORM NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
On the National Journal’s recent list of the 10 leading U.S.
experts on intelligence reform are people such as Maureen Baginski,
executive assistant director for the FBI’s Office of Intelligence;
Jamie Gorelick, a member of the 9/11 Commission; and Michael Hayden,
director of the National Security Agency.
HULET'S GOOD
HOPE
Since retiring from UCLA’s College in 1991, Claude Hulet
has been trying to get his bearings. It doesn’t help that
the professor emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese relies only on
dead reckoning, the height and angle of the sun to determine latitude
and other 16th-century Portuguese navigational approach es and implements.
15 SECONDS
CYNTHIA BURLINGHAM:
Director, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts and Deputy Director
of Collections, Hammer Museum.
NAMES AND FACES
Congrats: Frederick
Burwick ... Andrew Hsu ... Kimberly Jansma ... Jennifer Westbay
... Anthony Friscia ...David Sanson ... Indre Vida Viskontas ...
Kelly Suk Yong Yi-Kang ... Jerome-Ieronymos Zoidakis ... Walter
R. Allen.
Three Cheers: Daniel Silverman
... David Wong ... Veronica Rios..
In Memoriam: Joanne Freilich ... Edward
J. Hoffman ... Baldwin Gaylord Lamson ... Arthur J. Moss ... Kenneth
Ramming.
CAMPUS
STAFF
GET GROOVY AT PICNIC
“It’s picnic time! I’m enjoying the party!”
Josie Mancilla, an administrative assistant in Corporate Financial
Services’ Equipment Management Department, was clearly having
a blast at the first annual All-Staff Picnic, themed “Bruin
Pride,” held July 29 in Dickson Court. “My boss told
me to stay a while and have a good time,” she said happily.
UCLA4U:
FINDING QUALITY CHILD CARE
For many UCLA faculty, staff and students with
young children, the panic starts to set in this month as the clock
ticks down to the start of the school year. That’s when they
face the daunting task of finding that trustworthy stranger with
whom they can leave their children.
UCLA HELPS NEWEST
UC CAMPUS GROW
What does it take to build a new university from the ground
up?
Start with construction trailers and rented office space for staff
and administrators. Then add furnishings, computers, software and
other supplies. Include signage for buildings, scientific equipment
for researchers, a computerized management system for a library
and vehicle leases for campus executives.
BRUIN RIDERS
SADDLE UP AT MILL CREEK
Tucked away on Old Topanga Canyon Road in the heart of the Santa
Monica Mountains is a 28-acre, oak-shaded paradise called the Mill
Creek Equestrian Center. Horse lovers from all over California make
their way to this renowned boarding and training facility, where
the teaching staff consists of top professionals who specialize
in English-style riding.
TO YOUR
HEALTH
“To Your Health” debuts today. Appearing periodically,
the column will cover a wide range of topics that are important
for the fitness and well-being of employees and their families.
We hope you find this UCLA Today column useful and enjoyable.
VOICES
AIDS —
A WMD THAT U.S. WON'T DISARM
There is no other health conference in the world like the International
Conference on AIDS. It brings together scientists of every persuasion.
STAFF DESERVE
PLACE AT TABLE
For almost a decade, chairs of the Council of UC Staff Assemblies
(CUCSA) have expressed the need to ensure meaningful input by
all members of the university community.
WHAT'S ON MY MIND:
A REWARDING GLIMPSE
INTO THE LIVES OF FACULTY, STAFF
Each spring there’s a flurry of activity among staff
and faculty as the deadline approaches for submitting applications
and nominations for scholarships and awards to be given out by
UCLA Staff Assembly. These programs help recognize staff for outstanding
contributions, provide them with financial assistance to pursue
continuing education for career development and acknowledge faculty
who demonstrate collaboration and collegiality with staff.
OUR WORLD by
CAROLE CABLE
CLOSE UP
WILL QUAKE FORECASTER
GO THREE FOR THREE?
Late last year, Vladimir Keilis-Borok, a UCLA professor
in residence who is arguably the world’s leading earthquake
forecaster, issued a startling prediction: A temblor of magnitude
6.4 or greater had a 50-50 chance of striking the Southern California
desert in the nine months leading up to Sept. 5.
DID YOU FEEL THAT?
ENGINEERS SHAKE OFFICE BUILDING
Sometimes the best way to learn about an earthquake is to experience
it. But why wait for Mother Nature?
'STAFF INFECTION'
SPREADS PRIDE AMONG ART STAFF
Art students know them as troubleshooters — experienced
staff who can get them out of a jam. Have a technical or conceptual
problem with a painting? Lab assistant Ben Evans may be the person
they turn to. Hit a speed bump in the academic or administrative
area? Students can run to student adviser Caron Cronin or Manuela
Friedmann, assistant to the art department chair, for help.
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