INDEX
2004
October 12,
2004 (Vol. 25, No. 3)
NEWS
BUREAU
BRIEFS
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: James Davis, associate
vice chancellor for information technology, testified Oct. 5 before
a Congressional subcommittee on UCLA’s significant progress
in halting illegal file-sharing on campus....UCLA SPIRIT
SQUAD: Crowds lining up Sept. 25 for the annual Beijing
International Cultural Tourism Parade saw the UCLA Spirit Squad,
including Joe and Josephine Bruin, perform with groups from all
over China and more than 30 countries....THEATER, FILM AND
TELEVISION: The estate of Azadia Mamoulian, widow of film
and theater legend Rouben Mamoulian, recently donated $1.1 million
to the School of Theater, Film and Television to establish an endowed
chair in theatrical and motion picture directing.
ASTROPHYSICIST
TO PROBE SKIES AND GALAXIES
Reach for the moon? A UCLA scientist plans to do much more than
that. Edward Wright, professor of physics and astronomy, will be
the principal investigator of a new NASA mission to explore the
entire sky with unprecedented sensitivity, surveying “cool
stars,” faraway galaxies and planetary construction zones.
UCLA CELEBRATES
THE ARTS
Quick. Where is UC’s flagship campus for the
arts?
If your answer is UCLA, you’re right. The campus boasts a
faculty and staff roster that reads like a who’s who of the
arts, superb academic offerings and exhibition and performance programs
renowned the world over.
NEWS 2
CAMPUS
BRIEFS
SALUTE TO NEWLY TENURED: The UCLA Alumni Association
will host the fourth annual Luncheon to Honor Newly Tenured Faculty
on Oct. 21 at the James West Alumni Center.... OUT ON BAIL:
Robert Grosfield, 22, a junior majoring in history, is
out on $50,000 bail after being arrested by UCLA Police and charged
with interfering with the exercise of civil rights.... GETTING
AHEAD: Campus Human Resources is encouraging UCLA business
officers with significant oversight of personnel, finance, facilities,
academic programs and information technology to apply for the next
systemwide Business Officer Institute to be held Nov. 29-Dec. 2
at the Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco.... PRESIDENTIAL
VISIT: As part of his inaugural tour, UC President Robert
C. Dynes traveled to Washington, D.C., Sept. 26-29 and told lawmakers
about the economic influence that UC has on California and the contributions
researchers are making in science and technology.
FIRST
IN PRIVATE GIVING FOR YEAR
Campaign UCLA received more than $268 million in private gifts and
grants during 2003-2004, marking the sixth consecutive year in which
UCLA’s gift total has surpassed $250 million. This places
UCLA first in private giving among UC campuses for the year.
ASIAN AMERICAN
STUDIES BECOMES A DEPARTMENT
The UCLA community is celebrating the recent approval of
the Department of Asian American Studies, the first department among
UCLA’s four ethnic studies programs. The Executive Board of
the Academic Senate voted in favor of departmentalization last June,
and campus administrators gave their approval to the proposal in
August.
DID YOU KNOW?
UCLA Medical Center is only one of two hospitals in California
that are testing all newborn babies for 30 genetic diseases using
a simple blood sample. With the new screening, a significant number
of inherited metabolic disorders will be revealed before the babies
become seriously ill and when treatment is most effective.
YESTERDAY,
TODAY & TOMORROW
GERIATRICS GRANTS: UCLA has received $3
million to train academic health center faculty in geriatrics. The
university was one of four institutions sharing $12 million in grants
from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.... ENERGIZE YOUR
CAREER: The deadline for submitting applications to take
part in the next UCLA Staff Enrichment Program is Monday, Oct. 25.
If you want help through career coaching, seminars, workshops and
presentations designed to help you grow professionally, consider
applying.... CRIME REPORT: The UC Police Department
at UCLA recently reported that a total of 899 crimes occurred on
campus and in the surrounding area in 2003, compared to 857 crimes
in the previous year.
PEOPLE
SCIENTIST
STUDIES 'THIRD AMINO ACID FROM LEFT'
To explain his research field, the molecular biology of membrane
transport, Professor H. Ronald Kaback would usually require "two
hours and a chalkboard," he said. But anyone attending UCLA's
97th Faculty Research Lecture Oct. 14 to hear him would get some
inkling of the science that turns him on.
AFTER HOURS — THE
ACTOR
Zoe Cotton:
Administrative assistant, Development in External Affairs.
NAMES AND FACES
Kudos: Hitoshi
“Moe” Yonemura ... Ruth Milkman.... Alan
Felsenfeld
Bravo: David Eisenberg....
Ann and Jerry Moss ... Donna Lee.... AnicaMcKesey....Mish Mizrahi.
In Memoriam: Judith Ann Lengyel.
CAMPUS
CREW PURSUES
LITTER WITH SMILES ON THEIR FACES
“There’s another one!” Gina Williams scurried
toward a cigarette butt on the ground behind the UCLA Medical Center.
With steely determination, she grabbed the stubbed-out end with
the pincers of a metallic litter stick, held it up briefly for inspection,
then dropped it in a plastic trash bag that she clutched in her
left hand. A smile spread over her face.
STAFF BECOME
STUDENTS IN WORKPLACE
This fall, UCLA groundskeeper Ismael Martinez celebrated
a “first” — he took his oldest daughter to UC
Santa Cruz to begin her freshman year. She is the first member of
his family to go to college.
STUDENT
ENGINEERS HELP BUILD CLINIC
The world inhabited by 150 villagers of a remote hill
tribe settlement in Thailand is a universe away from Los Angeles.
They live in one-room huts, share one public phone, have one pickup
truck and a few TVs. Not even the mail is delivered to their outpost,
surrounded by mountainous jungle.
TO YOUR
HEALTH
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, marked by fund-raising
walks and pink ribbons to promote the search for a cure. Come November
and Lung Cancer Awareness Month will begin — symbolized by
see-through plastic ribbons. Of the 81,200 American women diagnosed
with lung cancer last year, an estimated 69,500 died from it. Worldwide,
some 155,000 people die of lung cancer — the equivalent of
a jumbo jet crashing every day.
WELCOME: NEW
FACULTY JOIN CAMPUS COMMUNITY
VOICES
THE RACIAL
DIVIDE: MISSING FROM DEBATE
For the first time in many election years, issues related to race
are conspicuously absent from national debate. The war in Iraq and
on terrorism has trumped most discussion on domestic issues, let
alone on race and policy. But even if these global concerns were
absent, it seems unlikely that a discussion would take place. Many
believe that the race problem has been addressed. In the 2002 General
Social Survey, a record 71% of whites indicated that conditions
for blacks have greatly improved. The implication: Racial affairs
need less attention.
GENDER: WE'RE A BIT
OF BOTH
“Duos habet et bene pendantes!” (“He has
two and well hung!”)
It was the moment of truth. The ultimate test before the coronation.
A deacon would extend his hand below the robe of the future pope
and check for the presence of two testicles. Middle Ages legend
has it that this rite was started after Joan, an English cross-dresser,
managed to get elected pope in 855. But her secret was discovered
two years later because of an ill-timed childbirth.
WHAT'S ON MY MIND:
A LIFETIME OF PROBING LIFE'S FRAGILITY
What might you think of a fellow who has spent the last 60 years
studying suicide? You might divine that he is rather old. Correct.
Or you might conclude that he is driven or depressed, or both. Wrong.
OUR WORLD by CAROLE
CABLE
CLOSE UP
A 'SENSE OF
PLACE' FROM THE OLD AND NEW
There’s a running joke on campus that what UCLA
actually stands for is “Under Construction in Los Angeles.”
If ever this little play on words should be taken seriously, it’s
today, when nearly $2 billion worth of campus construction is
either under way or has just wrapped up, according to Capital
Programs administrators.
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