INDEX
2006
April 25, 2006
(Vol. 26, No. 13)
NEWS
NEWS IN BRIEF
Largest applicant pool ever: UCLA admitted 12,094 prospective freshmen for fall 2006 from among 47,258 applicants. This was the largest applicant pool ever and a 12% increase over last year, once again making UCLA the most popular university in the country.... Getting a good head start: UC’s student academic preparation programs are making strong progress in helping educationally disadvantaged students prepare for college, according to a new report that evaluates the programs based on a more rigorous methodology than was ever used before.... Off and running: The first class of 16 UCLA scholars will likely be ready two months from now to begin a three-year training program to become leaders in the field of stem cell research, mentored by faculty from a wide range of fields..
BRIEFS ONLINE
A dancer’s legacy: Thanks to a donor, the UCLA Library has acquired the largest private collection ever assembled of rare materials by and about modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan, who died in 1927.... New aquatic center: Thanks to a generous lead gift from former student-athlete Tod Spieker and his wife Catherine, a new aquatic center, to be called the Spieker Aquatic Center, will be ready for UCLA athletes to use by fall 2008 ...UCLA on TV: If you’re looking for programs from UCLA that have run or are currently airing on UCTV, go to www.uctv.tv/ucla. Included is a section on all the UCLA-related programs that are archived and available for viewing on-demand.... More freshmen on the way: The UC admitted a record number of freshmen for Fall 2006 — all who were eligible as every UC campus increased the number of students each admitted....
STAFF GIVES CHANCELLOR A FAREWELL TRIBUTE
Warm wishes, emotional memories and frozen treats were the order of the day as hundreds of staff from all over campus gathered last week to honor Chancellor Albert Carnesale and thank him for his unstinting support.
MAJOR CHANGES ON THE WAY
Four days after UC was harshly reprimanded by an independent task force for numerous failures regarding compensation, President Robert C. Dynes took the first steps toward implementing some of its recommendations.
Online Extra:
AUDIT OF EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION FINDS POLICY AND PROCESS VIOLATIONS
The UC Board of Regents received the results of a 10-year audit April 24 that shows certain benefits promised or paid to many UC executives since 1996 were not approved by the regents, as required by their policies.
FROM FOSSIL BIRDS TO JUDICIAL DILEMMAS: FACULTY RESEARCH LECTURES HIT 100
In 1941, Arnold Schoenberg, then a professor of musicology at UCLA, delivered the 17th Faculty Research Lecture on a topic that changed the nature of 20th-century music composition. Titled “The Composition with Twelve Tones,” Schoenberg’s lecture was a prescient attempt to anticipate how his research would influence the music of the future.
ROOM AT THE TOP
In 2000, UCLA was preparing for Tidal Wave II, the anticipated surge in the number of college-bound Californians in the first decade of the 21st century. Six years later, as the frenzy over that mandate has subsided, there’s concern about a new tidal wave — of staff members. And this time, the tide is going out.
GUGGENHEIM WINNERS
While literary translator Michael Heim will be studying how people learn or brush up on languages on their own outside the classroom, geographer Laurence C. Smith will soon be exploring the Arctic to document the rapid changes that are occurring due to Arctic warming.
PEOPLE
SHE OPENS WORLD OF LEARNING TO THOSE 50-PLUS
When you ask Helen Berman how old she is, she smiles. “I’ll be 71 this month, so I’m aging,” she says. “So are you.”
10 QUESTIONS FOR MASSIMO CIAVOLELLA
Massimo Ciavolella, chair of the Italian Department, has spent the past 35 years exploring the historical relationship between medical, literary and philosophical ideas about human passions, especially love. He talked to UCLA Today Staff Writer Ajay Singh about lovesickness, food and the European way of life.
NAMES & FACES
Mark A.R. Kleiman, J.S. Chen, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Wayne Grody, Vijay Gupta
APPLAUSE
For the second year in a row, the School of Nursing was ranked 10th in the nation for its master’s program in nursing and its nursing administration graduate program by U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 survey of America’s best nursing schools and specialties.
OUT & ABOUT
READ ALL ABOUT IT
Spring means the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books heads to campus. It’s also when UCLA Today celebrates faculty and staff authors. The books featured here are only a few of the many interesting titles published in the past year by faculty and staff. Don’t miss the Times’ annual book extravaganza. The event will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 29 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 30. The Times expects more than 370 authors and 131,000 book fans. Tickets are required to attend indoor panel events and are available free of charge at all Ticketmaster locations until 5 p.m. Thursday, April 27.
POETRY AND PUNDITRY: BRUIN AUTHORS MAKE THE FESTIVAL SCENE
They’ll be on stage enlightening audiences at panel discussions, signing books for readers and waxing poetic before appreciative listeners.
HERE ARE MORE BOOKS BY FACULTY AND STAFF AUTHORS TO CONSIDER PUTTING ON YOUR READING LIST.
“Institutions of American Democracy: The Executive Branch (Institutions of American Democracy Series) (Oxford University Press, 2005) by Joel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson, professors of public policy and political science;
FREEZE FRAME
Gil Garcetti once made headlines as the Los Angeles County district attorney. Now the UCLA law school graduate is getting attention for his ability to use his camera to freeze dramatic moments.
VOICES
WELCOMING THE NEW GREEN REVOLUTION
April 22 marked the 36th year of Earth Day, a time to celebrate the Earth’s goodness and pledge to protect its fragile ecosystems. Amid the rejoicing we can easily forget that more food will need to be produced in the next 50 years than in mankind’s entire history. And this will have to be done on a rapidly shrinking amount of land suitable for agriculture.
WHY WERE NEARLY A MILLION IMMIGRANTS DEFLECTED OUT OF L.A.?
According to conventional wisdom, cities and metropolitan areas cannot affect how many immigrants settle in them. This conventional wisdom seems unsound in light of the fact that Los Angeles effectively deflected nearly a million Latino immigrants to other metropolitan areas in the United States from 1980 to 2000.
THE TWO MRS. CHENEYS
In 1981, Lynne Cheney, wife of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, published “Sisters,” a Western historical romance that received little attention and soon went out of print. The media rediscovered the novel only in 2004, when Cheney played a prominent role in her husband’s reelection campaign — a time when anything pertaining to the vice president was considered newsworthy.
CARTOON BY CAROLE CABLE
CAMPUS
SCREEN GEMS
The multiplex may be full of flops, but here in Melnitz Hall, they’re showing a real movie: “The Lineup” from B-movie king Don Siegel. This 1958 noir gem stars Eli Wallach as a psychopathic hired gun tracking down a lost drug shipment. Good prints of “The Lineup” are so rare that even hardcore Siegel fans might get a chance to see the movie only once or twice in a lifetime.
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