INDEX
2005
May 24, 2005
(Vol. 25, No. 15)
NEWS
BUREAU
BRIEFS
ENGINEERING: The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
and Applied Science and the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) have
forged an agreement to allow top scholars from Vietnam to enter
UCLA for graduate training in science and technology.... COMMENCEMENT
2005: Political, business and education leaders will be
among the speakers delivering keynote addresses at commencement
ceremonies, which will run through June 18.... UC BOARD
OF REGENTS: UCLA students are urging the UC Board of Regents
to help end mass killings in Darfur, Sudan, by shedding investments
in the country.
NEW WEB WORLD
OF SERVICES WILL EASE INFO SEARCH
On June 15, the Web architects at Administrative Information
Systems plan to unveil a reorganized Web world of UCLA business
services. This new approach will vastly simplify the search for
information by the public and campus community as well as the way
many employees do their jobs.
SOME PROF. SCHOOLS
SEEK FEE INCREASES
After four years of sustained budget cuts and unsuccessful
efforts to fully fill the funding void, UC’s professional
schools are in the throes of a financial struggle to maintain the
academic quality of programs, stay competitive and offer enough
financial aid to help needy students hammered by higher fees.
NEWS 2
CAMPUS
BRIEFS
THOSE CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER: With summer just a
calendar page away, organizers are already planning the annual All-Staff
Picnic, set for July 14.... ONE-DAY STRIKE: The
Professional and Technical Employees union (UPTE), representing
UC's 8,000 research support and technical employees, has announced
that it plans to conduct a one-day strike May 26.... STARS
FOR THE NIGHT: Some 2,000 Bruins walked the blue carpet
May 21 at Pauley Pavilion to get into this year’s Hollywood-themed
Young Alumni Reunion, a social highlight for newly-minted graduates
as well as alumni from the class of 2000 on up.... GEARING
UP: UC has partnered with a Bechtel-led industrial team
to prepare for a possible bid for continued management of the Los
Alamos National Laboratory, although UC regents have not yet decided
whether to compete.
NEW CO-CHAIRS
TO EXPAND CAMPUS FORUMS ON CHINA
The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies consistently draws the world’s
best scholars to its seminars and lecture series. It is now poised
to further broaden its coverage of China by becoming an even more
active forum for exchanging ideas, according to two acclaimed scholars
who will shortly head the center.
DEAN TO
FOSTER U.S.-CHINA DIALOGUE ON FILMS, TV
When China celebrates the 100th anniversary of its cinema in June,
one of the VIPs at the occasion will be Robert Rosen, dean of the
School of Theater, Film and Television. But Rosen won’t just
be catching up with the many Chinese filmmakers he has known since
his first visit to China in 1984.
DID YOU KNOW?
Fewer than 3% of those applying for the M.F.A. program in UCLA’s
prestigious Department of Art are accepted. That makes the school
harder to get into than Harvard Business School, according to U.S.
News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools 2005.”
YESTERDAY,
TODAY & TOMORROW
PARKING LOT GALA: The Department of
Art is hosting Luck of the Draw(ing), the first of what will be
an annual celebration of UCLA’s exceptional visual arts department,
alumni and arts community.... DYNEGY SETTLES: As
lead plaintiff in the Dynegy securities fraud class-action suit,
the UC recently reached a $468-million settlement with the company
and certain former executive officers and directors. Other settlements
in the case —$5 million with Citigroup and $1.05 million with
Arthur Andersen, LLP, — bring the total settlement to more
than $474 million.... A NEW CONTRACT: UC’s
7,300 service workers have ratified a new three-year labor contract
that runs through Jan. 31, 2008.
PEOPLE
SHE MAKES LIFE
EASIER FOR GRAD STUDENTS
Pursuing a Ph.D. at UCLA is hard, but doctoral students in
the Department of Psychology have a secret weapon working for them:
graduate program coordinator Dena Chertoff.
AFTER HOURS
- THE MARRIAGE-MAKER
MONICA MENDEZ LEAHY: Sportswear buyer, UCLA Store
NAMES AND FACES
Kudos: David
B. Reuben... Elma Gonzalez... Carlton Green.
Acclaim: Edward R.B. McCabe... Susan Haake...
Susan E. Parker... Sarah Watstein.
In Memoriam: Joseph E. Bogen.
CAMPUS
IMPROVEMENTS
IN STORE FOR UC SAVINGS PLANS
The University of California is in the midst of moving account
services and record-keeping for employee retirement savings plans
to an outside administrator. While the new arrangement will speed
up and simplify transactions and money management, certain transactions
will be temporarily suspended until the end of the transition period
in mid-July.
WOMEN LEARN STRATEGIES
TO GET THAT RAISE
Men know the “game” that is played when salaries
are negotiated and often seek advice from each other to ensure a
positive outcome is reached, according to Lisa Barron, assistant
professor of organization and strategy at The Paul Merage School
of Business, UC Irvine.
SCHOLARSHIPS
ENHANCE CAREERS OF STAFF
It’s common knowledge that students and faculty can obtain
financial assistance in the form of scholarships, fellowships and
grants. What may not be as well-known, however, is that staff are
eligible for scholarships of their own.
TO YOUR HEALTH
As a rabbi, David Wolpe encourages the dying to teach their loved
ones how to handle the greatest of all losses — that of life
itself. The exercise has an almost miraculous outcome: The dying,
often needy, person is transformed into a teacher with a potentially
profound message.
VOICES
RISING
SCHOOL VIOLENCE IS A CIVIC SCOURGE
Fights at Jefferson High School, Santa Monica High School and a
number of other schools in Los Angeles recently have focused public
attention on the tensions among groups of students. Unfinished business
in the community often plays itself out on campus. Some counselors
posit that the reason students choose to fight at school is that
they know adults will intervene and break things up before anyone
is badly hurt.
AFRICA: A PRIMER
FOR AMERICANS
During my graduate studies at Purdue University, one of
my friends often admired my seeming cosmopolitan bent. “How
many countries have you been to besides the United States?”
he once asked me. I had visited Germany, Holland, Britain, Cameroon,
Senegal and quite a few other places, I told him. “And you?”
He grinned, pulling at his blond moustache. “Just one ...
sorry, two,” he answered, his grin broadening to a wry smile.
“Canada and Texas.”
PERSONAL
JOURNEY: A DAY WITHOUT AN ARMENIAN
As I walked into my video rental store the other day, the provocative
title of an independent film caught my eye. I immediately rented
the film, “A Day Without a Mexican,” instead of “The
Bourne Supremacy,” my original choice. I had no idea what
I was in for.
OUR WORLD: BY CAROLE
CABLE
CLOSE UP
PARTNERSHIPS TACKLE
L.A. ISSUES
Did you know that UCLA is involved in a hip-hop-themed community
center near Koreatown? A program for refugees and torture survivors
in Venice? A storefront literacy program in Pico-Union? An affordable-housing
project in south Los Angeles?
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