INDEX
2005
April 26,
2005 (Vol. 25, No. 13)
NEWS
BUREAU
BRIEFS
UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS: UCLA admitted 11,338
prospective freshmen for this fall from among 42,207 applicants,
making the campus once again the most popular university in the
country.... INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: The NAFSA: Association
of International Educators has awarded the second annual Senator
Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization to UCLA.... UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA: The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded
a five-year contract to the UC to manage and operate the Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory.
ENVOY CALLS PROFS
TO ACTION ON AIDS
United Nations special envoy Stephen Lewis urged UCLA scientists
to speak up against “damaging ideological agendas” that
undermine the fight against HIV/AIDS.
DIAMOND'S BEST-SELLER
INSPIRES NEW EXHIBIT
What would you give to travel back in time to discover why the far-reaching
and astoundingly advanced Maya civilization mysteriously disappeared
in the 9th century?
NEWS 2
CAMPUS
BRIEFS
PENSION REFORM: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is suspending
his pension reform initiative that would have offered state employees
hired after July 1, 2007, a defined contribution retirement plan
instead of a defined benefit plan.... AGREEMENT REACHED:
The UC reached a tentative agreement with the American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) April
20 on a new, three-year labor contract for UC’s 7,300 service
workers.... INSIGHTS INTO RACE: Beverly Daniel
Tatum, president of Spelman College, will give the 2005 Allan Murray
Cartter Chair Lecture at 4 p.m. May 5 at Covel Commons.... TRIBUTE
TO MOM: Enjoy two scoops of fun on May 2 when the Jules
Stein Eye Institute (JSEI) celebrates both Vision Awareness Month
and Mother’s Day with an ice cream social from 11 a.m. to
2 p.m. at UCLA Medical Center’s Café Med.
TOBACCO FUNDING
BAN STIRS DEBATE AMONG FACULTY
The systemwide Assembly of the Academic Senate is set
to consider a controversial resolution that would effectively bar
individual UC academic units from rejecting tobacco funding for
research.
HOW WORKING
PARENTS COPE
In what could be viewed as the ultimate reality show,
scientists at UCLA’s Center on the Everyday Lives of Families
(CELF) visited 32 working families at home in Los Angeles and videotaped
them for a week.
DID YOU KNOW?
UCLA has the highest graduation rates in the UC system and among
the highest in the country. UCLA graduated 83.5% of the fall 1999
freshman class within five years, according to the most recent data
available.
YESTERDAY,
TODAY & TOMORROW
WAIVE GOODBYE TO LATE FEES: UCLA’s Citation
Review and Adjudication Office is offering a one-time-only amnesty
on late fees on parking citations.... IN SEARCH OF LIFE:
A free May 13 symposium will feature internationally renowned
scientists, including former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin, who
will discuss “Astrobiology: Life Among the Stars.”...
ORTHODONTIC SCREENING: The Orthodontic Clinic at
the School of Dentistry is offering free orthodontic screening during
this month only.... SMART AND OVER 50: UCLA Extension,
one of the nation’s largest providers of continuing higher
education, is launching a program specially designed to serve the
intellectual and cultural needs of adults over 50.
PEOPLE
A NEW LOOK AT MEXICO
As a photojournalist with the Los Angeles Times, David Fitzgerald
covered the Proposition 187 campaign, hoping to provide a balance
to “the shrill public discourse about immigrants,” he
said. “I tried to give Times readers a sense of the daily
lives of their immigrant neighbors, but grew frustrated by photography’s
limited capacity to explain the political context.”
AFTER HOURS
- THE ROCK STAR
PAUL BARONE: Technology training manager, External
Affairs
NAMES AND FACES
Cheers: InJu
Sturgeon.... Joseph K. Perloff.... Julie R. Korenberg.... Leonard
Kleinrock.... Margaret L. Stuber.
In Memoriam: Samuel Krachmalnick.... Richard
H. Popkin.... Lawrence B. Robinson.
CAMPUS
WOMEN SCIENTISTS
Harvard University’s natural science departments have
149 tenured male faculty compared to just 13 women. The dismal statistics,
reported April 15 by The New York Times, was hardly big news to
many of the 70 UCLA women scientists and others who gathered that
same day at the Faculty Center to discuss the pace of recruitment
and retention of women in their own departments.
EDLEY'S VISION
FOR SOCIETY
In his public lectures, Christopher Edley Jr. often makes
it a point to say that race is a much harder issue to tackle than
rocket science. The dean of UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School
of Law then points to the fact that while space technology has made
staggering leaps over the past half-century, numerous schools across
the United States still maintain a deplorable state of de facto
segregation: Blacks, whites and Latinos often don’t go to
the same schools.
YOUNGSTERS RALLY
'ROUND
THEIR FAVORITE CLIMBING TREE
The 20 student protesters defiantly marched out of their
classroom, exited the building and hoisted hand-lettered signs.
“Save the monkey tree,” they chanted repeatedly as they
formed a human shield around the object of their demonstration.
Others climbed onto its limbs.
TO YOUR HEALTH:
FACING LIFE IN THE FACE OF ILLNESS
Every year, some 1.3 million Americans die from heart diseases,
cancer and chronic respiratory disorders, accounting for nearly
60% of all deaths nationwide. In many cases, it’s the elderly
who die after years of suffering shared with family members, relatives
and friends. Coping with the trauma of disease and the death of
loved ones can therefore be one of life’s most useful lessons.
To advise employees on how to face these problems, the UCLA Staff
and Faculty Counseling Center launched a lecture series on April
6.
WEB WATCH
If you have never visited the UCLA Hannah Carter Japanese Garden,
located in Bel Air just a mile north of the campus, clicking on
http://www.japanesegarden.ucla.edu
is the next best thing, complete with the soulful sounds of a flute,
the seductive trickle of the garden’s many water elements
and close-ups of stone carvings, water lilies, carp and other features.
Take a narrated tour via video and you feel yourself transported
there.
VOICES
UCLA PARKING
WOES ROOTED IN FAULTY PRICING
Recalling the late UC President Clark Kerr’s famous comment
that the chancellor’s job has come to be defined as “providing
parking for the faculty, sex for the students, and athletics for
the alumni,” Chancellor Albert Carnesale recently remarked
that campus priorities had changed.
FIXING GENDER
DISPARITIES
Harvard President Larry Summers suggested at a National
Bureau of Economic Research conference in January that women aren’t
doing so well in science and engineering because they don’t
want to work all that hard and some of them aren’t as smart
as the guys. That’s neither exactly nor all of what he said,
but that’s what a lot of people came away with. He has been
apologizing ever since. I’m not sure that he should be.
WHAT'S
ON MY MIND:
THE EXTRAORDINARY VISION OF NORMAN MILLER
“Stormin’ Norman” is what many of us called Norman
Perry Miller, a fixture at UCLA for so many years. Norm, who founded
the Office of Cultural and Recreational Affairs (CRA) in 1962 and
was UCLA’s first vice chancellor of student affairs, died
last September at the age of 86, following some difficult last years.
OUR WORLD: BY CAROLE CABLE
CLOSE UP
BRUINS AT PLAY
The recent opening of the Wooden Center West addition gives
students, staff and faculty a chance to set aside their work temporarily
to pump, heave, pull, cycle and move with the help of more than
250 state-of-the-art pieces of cardio exercise and strength-training
equipment.
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