INDEX 1997

MARCH 14, 1997 (Vol. 17, No. 14)

 

This index page is for reference only; stories in this issue are not available online. Print editions may be found in the periodicals stacks of the Charles Young Research Library.

 

ACCOLADES FOR CARNESALE FROM FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES

 

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER CALLS FOR END TO OCCUPATION – Occupying only half of a 280-mile-long island in the Malay Archipelago, East Timor is barely "a footnote in politics," acknowledged Jose Ramos-Horta, a voice crying out for justice for his countrymen and his tiny homeland, invaded by Indonesia 21 years ago. But last year that footnote was reprinted on the front pages of major newspapers around the world when Ramos-Horta and another champion for the victims of Indonesian oppression in East Timor, Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, were awarded the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize. Ramos-Horta, now living in exile as special representative of East Timorese Resistance, recently brought his country's fight for self-determination to the attention of the UCLA community in a March 5 appearance sponsored by UCLA's Center for International Relations and the International Studies and Overseas Programs.

 

CAMPUS FOOD COP PROTECTS THE HUNGRY – Turonda Crumpler is watching. If there are bugs bedding down in the bread baskets, Turonda Crumpler will know. If there's squirrels in the pantry, she'll find out. That is, all, her job. Crumpler is a registered environmental-health specialist with UCLA's Office of Environment, Health and Safety. It's her responsibility to make sure that the food you purchase from the 43 campus restaurants and food stores is fit and wholesome. With 50,000 meals served daily on campus, Crumpler is a busy woman.

 

NEWS IN BRIEF – What's Happening? - . . . .Mistrial Declared - . . . .Management Training - . . . .We <3 Librarians - . . . .Correction -

 

DID YOU KNOW? – The Duke game Feb. 23 was the 2,000th UCLA men's basketball contest. The Bruins' overall record (including four games since Duke) now stands at 1,400-604, a .696 winning percentage, which is No. 4 in the country behind Kentucky, North Carolina and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

 

SKIPPER PILOTS SEAGOING 'CLASSROOM' – Willy McCarthy has found an ideal career niche that gives him what he has sought since he was 15 -- the freedom to roam the ocean and escape the constraints imposed on land-based mortals. What is mind-boggling to McCarthy, 31, the congenial sun-baked captain of the Sea World UCLA, is that he is doing what he loves most while simultaneously participating in an educational program to introduce students, many from inner-city Los Angeles, to marine science.

 

NAMES AND FACES – Notables – Mitzi Krockover and Asad Abidi. . . .Kudos – Kris Gutierrez, Allan Tobin, and Wesley Moore. . . .Honors – Helen Bernstein, Christine Borgman, and Virginia Walter.

 

PRAIRIE DENTIST IS RIGHT AT HOME – Nancy Reifel's life has come full circle.

 

As a child, she remembers spending summers with her relatives on the Rosebud Sioux reservation in South Dakota. Today with a joint appointment to the American Indian Studies Center (AISC) and the School of Dentistry, she focuses on health issues among Native Americans. "Growing up among non-Indians in the city, I felt like part of my life was missing," Reifel said. "I knew that the key to understanding my heritage was on the reservation." At the School of Dentistry, Reifel is working with the UCLA International Center for Dental Health to survey American Indian oral-health status.

 

WHO'S NEW – Ellen Perkins

 

MAKING A DIFFERENCE – Setting High School Standards - The UC Board of Regents in February endorsed a plan to establish graduation standards for all California high schools. . . .On A Mission - A 20-member contingent of the School of Dentistry faculty will arrive April 27 in Washington, D.C., for a six-day advocacy mission to meet with officials from professional organizations, with executive-branch agencies and members of Congress and their staffs. . . . Charter Reform - Los Angeles community leaders, elected officials and candidates for office were among participants who gathered in the James West Alumni Center recently for a joint UCLA/USC conference on Los Angeles City Charter Reform. . . . UC Budget - In a report to the Legislature on Gov. Wilson's proposed 1997-'98 budget, the state Legislative Analyst has recommended that the University of California's budget for deferred maintenance be increased $7.5 million while funding for instructional-technology programs and UC's proposed industry-university cooperative research program be reduced by a total of $9 million. . . .Advocates Needed – Bruin advocates, including alumni and friends, will travel to Sacramento April 14-15 for an annual conference designed to strengthen bonds with legislators and state administrators by highlighting UC's impact on the state's prosperity and vitality.

 

D.C. LAWMAKER, STAFF VIEW MED ISSUES UP CLOSE – With medical machines attached to her tiny chest, 14-month-old Isabella, managed a weak smile as a group of VIP visitors gathered around her crib in the Pediatrics Intensive Care Unit of the UCLA Medical Center. "Blow kisses, Izzy!" coaxed nurses as the entourage of Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Bakersfield), chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, stopped to look in on the chubby recipient of a new heart. Thomas' subcommittee is one of the most influential panels overseeing Medicare, which helps to fund graduate medical education.

 

STUDENTS DRAFT, PUSH BILL TO LEARN PROCESS – At first glance it might appear that AB845, the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Quality of Care Improvement Act, is just another bill wending its way through the maze of committees in Sacramento. What makes this piece of legislation stand out from the others, though, are its authors and key backers: a group of UCLA undergraduates. Under the guidance of Assemblywoman Diane Martinez (D-Monterey Park), who is shepherding their bill through the State Legislature, 14 students are getting a crash course in capitol culture -- and hands-on experience that a textbook or lecture would be hard pressed to match.

 

PUBLIC INTEREST – Immigration Study - . . . .Founder's Award - . . . .Enrollments Up - . . . .Preserving Family - . . . .Communication Critics -

 

DEAN ENVISIONS FUTURE OF POLICY SCHOOL – Barbara J. Nelson was named the first permanent dean of the School of Public Policy and Social Research on Nov. 1, succeeding Founding Dean Archie Kleingartner as head of UCLA's newest professional school. A professor of public policy whose areas of expertise include social and economic policies in industrialized nations, organizational theory and behavior, and social movements, Nelson came to UCLA from Radcliffe College, where she was vice president and distinguished professor of public policy.

 

NO COMPROMISE ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM – Intellectual freedom -- more precisely academic freedom -- is now and must forever be central to any American university. Our nation's institutions of higher learning are the guarantors of the First Amendment; the courts cannot do it alone.

 

SWEET BRUIN HOOP DREAMS – March Madness, that state of basketball mania that grips the hoop-minded masses in late winter, came early to Pauley Pavilion on Feb. 23, in the nationally televised battle with sixth-ranked Duke. It was a game of heightened importance for the Bruins. Since the 1995 championship season the team has struggled against top-ranked nonconference opponents. Last year was a real low, when the Pac-10 champs were shipped out of the West Regional, losing to Princeton in the first round.

 

HOW ALLAN BLOOM TURNED AMERICAN MINDS TO THE RIGHT – Looking back on the 10 years since Allan Bloom published the "Closing of the American Mind," it's difficult to remember what an unlikely bestseller it was. The book featured an attack on American culture and a discourse on Nietzsche that seemed guaranteed to put readers off. The publishers failure to hype the volume would normally have doomed it to obscurity. Yet Bloom went on to sell a million copies. Why? His timing was very good. Bloom produced the book six years into a Reagan Revolution whose conservative ethic engulfed the nation and move d the default position of American discourse considerably to the right. Among the few remaining oases of liberalism were the universities -- proud, aloof and vulnerable.

 

A GRATEFUL CITY, STATE SALUTE UCLA'S CHIEF - In the heartfelt words of the man of the hour as he gazed out over the banquet room at the Beverly Hilton packed with dignitaries, it was "something colossal," a profound and sweeping tribute Feb. 26, joined in by 1,200 policymakers, corporate leaders, benefactors, distinguished friends and alumni and many from campus who helped Chancellor Charles E. Young carry through his unwavering dedication to diversity and the highest standards of academic excellence.