INDEX
2004
September
28, 2004 (Vol. 25, No. 2)
NEWS
BUREAU
BRIEFS
STUDENT AND CAMPUS LIFE: UC police are following
a major lead and hope soon to wrap up two cases of vandalism against
UCLA’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Campus Resource
Office.... PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS: UCLA has suspended
2004-05 fee increases for roughly 400 professional school students
as a result of a preliminary injunction issued in a court challenge
to UC in San Francisco Superior Court.... UC BOARD OF REGENTS:
Jodi Lynette Anderson, a doctoral student in education
at UCLA, recently took her seat on the UC board as student regent
for 2004-05.
REGENTS RAISE MINIMUM
GPA
Faced with an overly large pool of eligible high school students,
the UC Board of Regents voted Sept. 23 to raise the minimum grade
point average for incoming freshmen from 2.8 to 3.0.
AN
AUSPICIOUS START
UCLA is beginning the school year with some positive changes, including
a new name for a graduate school. The School of Public Policy and
Social Welfare is now the School of Public Affairs.
NEWS 2
CAMPUS
BRIEFS
BONUS LEAVE: Eligible staff will get two bonus
days off during the 2004-05 winter campus closure. UC is instituting
the one-time paid-leave program to recognize employee contributions
in the face of static salaries and budget cuts.... TAKING
HOPE COAST TO COAST: Neil Shah, a UCLA cancer researcher
who usually fights the deadly disease in the lab, is taking his
efforts on the road.... A SOLID START: An estimated
5,000 new freshmen and transfer students were expected to gather
Sept. 27 for the 2004 New Student Welcome at Pauley Pavilion.
ON
THE RISE
PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY BUILDING: A four-story building with
40-to-200 seat classrooms, faculty and administrative offices, conference
rooms, libraries, outdoor terrace and research labs on two below-grade
levels. Three glass-enclosed bridges will connect it to Knudsen
Hall.
DID YOU KNOW?
The Society of Professional Journalists named the Daily Bruin America’s
best all-around student newspaper at its Mark of Excellence awards
ceremony this month in New York City. Earlier, the California Newspaper
Publishers Association selected the Daily Bruin as the best paper
at a four-year university. The Associated Collegiate Press and the
California College Media Association have also handed the student-produced
paper first-place honors.
CURRENT
BRUINS, ALUMNI SAVOR OLYMPIC TRIUMPHS
“Hot, humid and hilly.”
That’s how UCLA alumnus Meb Keflezighi described the marathon
course in Athens, Greece, where he won the silver medal on the last
day of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. “That was probably the
toughest marathon you could run.”
YESTERDAY,
TODAY & TOMORROW
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?: UCLA and University
of Arizona scientists have demonstrated that the left and right
ears process sound differently, new data that may help doctors treat
those with hearing loss.... A DAY TO REMEMBER:
Pioneers, industry leaders and rising stars will offer their perspectives
on the Internet at a daylong forum Oct. 29, marking the 35th anniversary
of the birth of the Internet at UCLA.... NEW WAYS TO ATTACK
FAT?: UCLA scientists have discovered that lean people
experience a huge nighttime surge of ghrelin — the hormone
that stimulates hunger — but obese people do not.
PEOPLE
NPI'S CHIEF: IS
MORE EVER ENOUGH?
When millions of Americans got richer in the Internet stock boom
of the late 1990s, pundits predicted the onset of a “new economy”
that would make just about everyone wealthy and happy.
HISTORIAN EXPLORES
COLUMBUS' LIFE, TIMES
In the late 1980s, UCLA historian Geoffrey Symcox chose the
Italian city of Turin as a focus for his research. Known today chiefly
as the headquarters of Fiat, the city, Symcox believed, deserved
recognition as a masterpiece of civic planning.
15 SECONDS
TERESA BARNETT:
Head, UCLA Oral history Program.
NAMES AND FACES
Bravo: Sanjiv
"Sam" Gambhir ... Timothy Lane.
Smashing: Panagiotis D.
Christofides ... Jane P. Chang ... Rita Costello
... UCLA Medical Center.
Good Show: Kris D. Gutierrez ... Stuart
Kirk.
In Memoriam: John Dreyfuss ... David W.
Golde ... Norman P. Miller.
CAMPUS
NEW RESIDENTS
MAY HELP BOOST LOCAL ECONOMY
Business owners and area residents are hoping that the completion
of UCLA’s Weyburn Terrace on the west side of Westwood Village
and the development of Palazzo Westwood on the east side will breathe
new life into the ailing local economy.
GIVING PLATELETS:
IT'S LIKE BEING A COUCH POTATO AT HOME
Mike Basile, a lead locksmith with Facilities Management, was
back at work after the long Labor Day weekend. Lying on a comfy, contoured
chair, Basile was watching a DVD of “187,” a bloody shoot-’em-up
with Samuel L. Jackson. After the movie, Basile checked out some Olympics
photos on the Web.
EMPLOYEES
TEAM UP TO WALK FOR JEFF
When Jeff Cadwell worked as a telecommunications project
manager at UCLA’s Communications Technology Services (CTS),
he knew the value of teamwork. Among his complex projects was the
revamping of Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center’s telephone
system.
PROGRAM ADDRESSES
BUSINESS OFFICERS' NEEDS
How would you handle the following situation?
A close friend gets a job as assistant manager of a record store.
She gives you three CDs, saying, “The owner here is really
stupid and the inventory system is so bad, they never know what
they have. Even my manager takes stuff home. You can have these
if you want.”
VOICES
GOVERNOR'S
REVIEW IS A 'POWER GRAB'
The plan to reorganize state government, submitted to Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger in July, contains some good ideas. But buried in
the 2,500-page report is a troubling hidden agenda to tighten the
governor’s grip on power.
THIS INSTITUTE
SURVIVES AND EVEN THRIVES
To borrow a phrase from Mark Twain, rumors of our death have
been greatly exaggerated. The UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations
(IIR) has not only survived — it’s thriving.
SOUND BITES
To give the campus community a wider forum, UCLA Today is introducing
a new feature that will appear occasionally in this space. For
this issue’s “Sound Bites,” Voices Editor Ajay
Singh asked this question on campus:
Q: What’s your workplace like, and if there’s
one thing about it you could change, what would it be?
OUR WORLD by
MATTHEW HENRY HALL
CLOSE UP
THE 'GREEN' ROAD
TO WORK AND BACK
A lot of Mark Dyball’s coworkers wonder if there’s
maybe something wrong with him. He thinks they’re the ones
who might be a little nuts. Dyball, the executive chef at the
UCLA Medical Center, does not drive and never has
TRANSPORTATION FAIR
Want to learn more about vanpools, buses, carpooling
and other options available to UCLA commuters? Stop by the Transportation
Fair on Thursday, Oct. 7 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Bruin Plaza.
UCLA and regional transportation providers will be on hand to
answer questions and supply information. State-of-the-art alternative
fuel vehicles will be on display. The annual event is sponsored
by UCLA Transportation Services. For the latest information, go
to www.transportation.ucla.edu.
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