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"UCLA is located in Los Angeles, the same place as the American motion picture industry," said UCLA visiting professor of film and television Jonathan Kuntz. "So we're convenient for (almost) all of the movie companies, TV production companies, commercial companies and so on. We're right where the action is."
"UCLA is located in Los Angeles, the same place as the American motion picture industry," said UCLA visiting professor of film and television Jonathan Kuntz. "So we're convenient for (almost) all of the movie companies, TV production companies, commercial companies and so on. We're right where the action is."


==Activism==
==Activism and historical events==
In [[1995]], [[2001]], and [[2004]], ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' magazine named UCLA in its annual listing of the Top 10 Activist Campuses, reflecting the rallying spirit of its student bodies over the years. In the 1960s, along with other American campuses, UCLA emerged as a staging area for massive protests against the [[Vietnam War]]. The protests at UCLA began in [[1967]], when over 500 students protested the recruitment of graduates by [[Dow Chemical Company|Dow Chemicals]], which produced napalm, an incendiary chemical used in the war. The protests escalated as the war continued.
In [[1995]], [[2001]], and [[2004]], ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' magazine named UCLA in its annual listing of the Top 10 Activist Campuses, reflecting the rallying spirit of its student bodies over the years. In the 1960s, along with other American campuses, UCLA emerged as a staging area for massive protests against the [[Vietnam War]]. The protests at UCLA began in [[1967]], when over 500 students protested the recruitment of graduates by [[Dow Chemical Company|Dow Chemicals]], which produced napalm, an incendiary chemical used in the war. The protests escalated as the war continued.


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Other recent activism includes a movement since 2004 to pressure the [[Regents of the University of California|UC Regents]] to divest from [[Sudan]] because of the mass killings in the [[Darfur]] region. In March 2006 the Regents voted in favor of divestment, becoming the largest university system yet to do so.
Other recent activism includes a movement since 2004 to pressure the [[Regents of the University of California|UC Regents]] to divest from [[Sudan]] because of the mass killings in the [[Darfur]] region. In March 2006 the Regents voted in favor of divestment, becoming the largest university system yet to do so.

On [[November 17]], [[2006]], 400 protesters,<ref name="bruin-ucla-community"/> including UCLA faculties and staffs, parents, community members, and UCLA students, gathered at [[Kerckhoff Hall]] to protest the [[UCLA Taser incident]].


==UCLA, ARPANET, and the Internet==
==UCLA, ARPANET, and the Internet==

Revision as of 10:11, 29 January 2007

University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA Seal (Trademark of the Regents of the University of California)
MottoFiat lux (Let there be light)
TypePublic
Established1881 as the Los Angeles State Normal School.
Became part of UC system in 1919
Endowment$1.7 billion[1]
ChancellorNorman Abrams (acting)
Academic staff
1,453
Undergraduates24,946
Postgraduates11,021 [2].
Location
Westwood, Los Angeles
,
California
,
United States
CampusUrban, 419 acres (1.7 km²)
Colors"True Blue" & Gold
NicknameBruins
MascotJoe and Josephine Bruin[3]
Websitewww.ucla.edu
File:Ucla designlogo.gif

The University of California, Los Angeles, generally known as UCLA, is a public university whose main campus is located in the affluent Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Established as a branch of the state university in 1919, it is the second-oldest general-purpose campus in the University of California system and has the largest enrollment of any university in the state.

Most of its Ph.D. programs rank in the top 20 for academic quality in the United States, according to the National Research Council. The September 2006 issue of Washington Monthly magazine ranked UCLA fourth among all U.S. universities in terms of social mobility and "service to the nation" (not academic quality).[4]. In its 2007 ranking of "America's Best Colleges," U.S. News & World Report ranked UCLA 26th among all universities in the United States, and 4th in the west [5]. The university was also ranked by the National Science Foundation as the No. 1 public research university in the nation (based on the amount of research expenditure) and second only to Johns Hopkins University among all American universities, both public and private[6] Furthermore, Newsweek in its survey of The 100 Top Global Universities ranked UCLA 12th in the world based upon criteria such as volume of library holdings and amount of faculty-written articles published in scholarly journals like Nature and Science.[7]

The university admitted 11,750 students of the more than 47,000 who applied for admission as freshmen in Fall 2005. Applications for the Fall 2007 freshman class reached a record 50,694. For the past several years, no American university has had more applicants than UCLA[5].

UCLA's sports teams, which compete as the Bruins, have won 120 national championships and 99 NCAA championships as of 2006—more than any other university. Also in 2006, UCLA completed Campaign UCLA, which collected over $3.05 billion and is currently the most successful fundraising campaign in the history of higher education. Students come to UCLA from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries, though the majority of undergraduates are from California[8].

History

California State Normal School, predecessor to UCLA, at its original downtown Los Angeles campus

In March 1881, after heavy lobbying by Los Angeles residents, the California State Legislature authorized the creation of a southern branch of the California State Normal School in downtown Los Angeles to train teachers for the growing population of Southern California. The State Normal School at Los Angeles opened on August 29, 1882, on what is now the site of the Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library system. The new facility included an elementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their teaching technique on real children. In 1887, the school became known as the Los Angeles State Normal School.

In 1914, the school moved to a new campus on Vermont Avenue in Hollywood. In 1917, UC Regent Edward A. Dickson, the only regent representing the Southland at the time, and Ernest Carroll Moore, Director of the Normal School, began working together to lobby the State for the school to become the second University of California campus. On May 23, 1919 their efforts were rewarded when Governor William D. Stephens signed Assembly Bill 626 into law, which turned the school into the Southern Branch of the University of California and added its general undergraduate program, the College of Letters and Science[9]. The Southern Branch campus opened on September 15 of that year, offering two-year undergraduate programs to 250 Letters and Science students and 1,250 students in the Teachers College, under Moore's continued direction.

University of California, Southern Branch's Vermont Campus, 1922.

In 1925, the College of Letters and Science awarded its first Bachelor of Arts degrees to 100 women and 24 men. After first identifying themselves with "Cubs," then later "Grizzlies," (which was already taken by the University of Montana) the Southern Branch student council adopted the name "Bruins" for the athletic teams after they entered the Pacific Coast conference in 1926[10], a name offered by the student council at Berkeley.

Enrollment at the Southern Branch expanded so rapidly that by the mid-1920s the institution was outgrowing the 25-acre Vermont Avenue location. The Regents conducted a search for a new location and announced their selection of the so-called "Beverly Site"—just west of Beverly Hills—on March 21, 1925; the Vermont Campus became the location of Los Angeles City College. In 1927, the school was renamed the "University of California at Los Angeles" (the word "at" was officially replaced by a comma in 1958, in line with other UC campuses) and the state broke ground in Westwood on land sold for $1 million, less than one-third its value, by real estate developers Edwin and Harold Janss, for whom the Janss Steps are named[11]. The College Library, Royce Hall, the Physics-Biology Building and the Chemistry Building were the original four buildings, arrayed around a quadrangular courtyard on the 400 acre (1.6 km²) campus. The first undergraduate classes on the new campus were held in 1929 with 5,500 students enrolled. In 1933, after heavy lobbying by alumni, faculty, administration and community leaders, UCLA was permitted to award the master's degree, and in 1936, the doctorate, against resistance from Berkeley[12].

UCLA's current Westwood campus with downtown Los Angeles to the East.

The UCLA student body in those years quickly gained a radical reputation. In 1934, Provost Moore declared UCLA "the worst hotbed of communism in the U.S," and suspended 5 members of the ASUCLA student government for allegedly “using their offices to assist the revolutionary activities of the National Student League, a Communist organization which has bedeviled the University for some months.” Over 3,000 students gathered to protest in Royce Quad, and campus police officers, attempting to silence the speakers, were thrown into some bushes. The crowd dispersed before any arrests were made, and University President Robert Sproul later reinstated the students[13].

In 1934, upon the death of William Andrews Clark, Jr., UCLA received its first major bequest—and still one of the most generous in its history—the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The rare books and manuscripts collection includes some of the world's largest collections of English literature, history, and fine printing.

Campus

Royce Hall, one of UCLA's first four buildings, is built in the Italian Lombard Romanesque style.
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The Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library, UCLA School of Law

When UCLA opened in 1929, it had only four buildings. Today, the campus currently comprises 163 buildings across 419 acres (1.7 km²) in the western part of Los Angeles, north of the Westwood shopping district and just south of Sunset Boulevard. The campus is close to but not adjacent to the San Diego Freeway.

The first campus buildings were designed in an exuberant Romanesque Revival style, by the local firm of Allison & Allison. This remained the predominant building style on campus until the 1950s, when architect Welton Becket was hired to supervise the expansion of the campus over the next two decades. Becket greatly streamlined the general appearance of the campus, adding several rows of minimalist, slab-shaped brick buildings to the southern half of the campus, the largest of these being the UCLA Medical Center. Architects such as A. Quincy Jones, William Pereira and Paul Williams, among others, designed many subsequent structures on the campus during the mid-20th century. More recent additions include buildings designed by architects I.M. Pei, Richard Meier, Cesar Pelli, and Rafael Vinoly.

The Franklin Murphy Sculpture Garden with the Barbara Hepworth's Elegy in the foreground.

The University campus includes broad green lawns, sculpture gardens and fountains, museums, and a mix of architectural styles. It is located in the residential area of Westwood and bordered by Bel-Air, Beverly Hills, and Brentwood. UCLA's sculpture garden has been ranked as one of the most beautiful sculpture gardens in the United States. The campus is informally divided into North Campus and South Campus, which are both on the eastern half of the university's land. North Campus is the original campus core, with its buildings being more old-fashioned in appearance and clad in imported Italian brick. North Campus is home to the arts, humanities, social sciences, law, and business programs and is centered around oak tree-lined Dickson Court. South Campus is home to the physical sciences, life sciences, engineering, psychology, mathematical sciences, all health-related fields, and the UCLA Medical Center. The campus is in a constant state of change with multiple construction projects, including new residence areas, teaching and laboratory space, and a new hospital. This ongoing construction throughout the university's history has given it the nickname "Under Construction Like Always" among students.

Undergraduate housing for nearly 8,000 residents is spread across 14 complexes on a ridge on the western side of the campus called "the Hill." Students are housed in both high-rise dormitories with shared bathrooms and low-rise buildings where students live in suites. More recent construction on the Hill has led to high-rise dorms with suite-style rooms as well. Student life on the Hill is under the care of the Office of Residential Life (ORL). Dining facilities include five restaurants and three boutique-style eateries. At Bruin Cafe, adjacent to Sproul Hall, students can order sandwiches, smoothies, and The Coffee Bean beverages. Newly-opened Rendezvous, in the Rieber Terrace building, provides a mix of Mexican and Asian food choices. Crossroads, which had previously served Mexican food, changed its menu in 2006 to resemble a classic American diner. Puzzles, long the Hill's primary late-night eatery, abandoned the burger and shake menu in 2006 for gourmet sandwiches. Currently, students are guaranteed three years of on-campus housing, and can apply for additional years. The Housing Master Plan aims to guarantee housing to all undergraduates for four years by 2010.

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The University Library, now known as the Powell Library, was covered in snow on January 15, 1932

In 2002, the university began building Weyburn Terrace, a new graduate housing complex, in order to recruit top graduate students from around the world; there had been no university-operated graduate housing on or near the main campus since 2001. The new complex is located a few blocks from the main UCLA campus on the western edge of Westwood. The project suffered numerous delays, but was finally completed before the Fall 2005 term. Weyburn Terrace enables UCLA to provide housing to approximately fifty percent of incoming graduate and professional students. It also served as housing for displaced Tulane University law students who visited at UCLA during the Fall semester following Hurricane Katrina.

Ackerman Union, the John Wooden Center, the Arthur Ashe Health and Wellness Center, the Student Activities Center, Kerckhoff Hall, the J.D. Morgan Center, the James West Alumni Center, and Pauley Pavilion stand at the center of the campus. The Hill is linked to the remainder of campus by a heavily traveled pathway called Bruin Walk, which bisects the campus. In order to accommodate UCLA's rapidly growing student population, multiple construction and renovation projects are in progress, including expansions of the life sciences and engineering research complexes.

The tallest building on campus is named after Ralph Bunche, an African-American alumnus, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an armistice agreement between the Jews and Arabs in Palestine. A bust of him, on the entrance to Bunche Hall, overlooks the Sculpture Garden. He was the first individual of non-European background and the first UCLA alumnus to be honored with the Prize.

The campus has a large number of parking garages, both above-ground and below-ground. Yet, the university continues to suffer from a severe parking shortage which is further compounded by Southern California's regional housing shortage. The university has given priority in allocation of parking spaces to staff and some students, regardless of living distances. There are many facilities with local buses. There are, in addition, other transportation services that the university provides for its students, such as "rideshares" and vanpools. Also, the popular "BruinGo" program allows students and staff members to use local bus services (such as Santa Monica's "Big Blue Bus") for a reduced fare from numerous terminals located on the campus

Academics

The Anderson School
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Moore Hall, Department of Education

UCLA features the College of Letters and Science, seven general campus professional schools, and four professional schools of health science. Collectively, these schools serve about 25,000 undergraduate and 11,000 graduate students.

Created in 1923, the College of Letters and Science has 34 academic departments and 900 faculty, and houses the majority of UCLA's undergraduate majors as well as the students in the Graduate Division of Letters and Sciences. Its programs are divided into five academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, life sciences, physical sciences, and the International Institute.

Students at both levels are enrolled in the School of the Arts and Architecture, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of Theater, Film, and Television, while the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, the Anderson School of Management, the School of Public Affairs, and the School of Law serve graduate students.

The David Geffen School of Medicine, along with the School of Nursing, School of Dentistry, and School of Public Health, comprise the professional schools of health science. In 2005, UCLA announced its five-year plan to establish the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine; the state of California is rare in its public funding of research with new embryonic stem cell lines. The California NanoSystems Institute is another project that was created out of a partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara to pioneer innovations in the field of nanotechnology.

Rankings

The UCLA Library, which holds over 8 million volumes, ranks among the top 10 in the United States.

Recent rankings

In the August 21-28, 2006 issue of Newsweek (also released as the 2007 issue of the Kaplan Guide to Colleges) [14] UCLA is listed as one of "25 New Ivies" [15] .

In the September 2006, issue of the The Washington Monthly's "College Rankings" UCLA is ranked as No. 4 in terms of involvement in community service activities among all universities in the United States [16]

UCLA was ranked 12th in North America and 14th in the world by an annual listing of the Top 500 World Universities published by the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China in terms of quality of scientific research leading to a Nobel Prize. Meanwhile, UCLA was ranked 16th in the country and 31st in the world by The Times Higher Education Supplement’s list of the top 200 universities in the world.[17].

UCLA took the second spot among all universities (surpassed only by Johns Hopkins University), and the top spot among public universities, for research spending in the sciences and engineering during the fiscal year 2004, according to a 2006 report by the National Science Foundation. UCLA spent $773,000,000[18], and was followed by the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

UCLA's School of Law, Anderson School of Management, School of Public Policy, and School of Medicine consistently rank among the top five to ten in the United States. UCLA's oldest operating unit, the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSEIS), was ranked 2nd among American graduate schools of education in the 2006 edition of U.S. News and World Report, America's Best Graduate Schools.

In the Institute for Scientific Information's 2004 database, 48 UCLA professors were listed as highly cited, making UCLA faculty 11th in the United States; as of December 2006, there were 54 highly cited faculty. [19]

Past rankings

In 1995, of the 36 Ph.D. programs examined by the National Research Council [20], eleven departments were ranked in the top 10:

Thirty-one of the Ph.D. programs examined were ranked in the top 20, third highest in the country.

Admissions

UCLA is the second most selective school in the UC system. In 2005, 47,245 prospective freshmen applied to UCLA for entrance in Fall 2006, more than any other university in the United States, and 12,069 applicants were accepted—a 25.5 percent acceptance rate[21] The average weighted GPA and SAT score for an admitted freshman was 4.27 and 2010, respectively[22]. One of the major current debates is over the decreasing admission of African-Americans and Latinos, especially since the passage of Proposition 209 in 1996. Out of the 4,700 students in the incoming Fall 2006 class, only 96 are black, and 20 of those are recruited athletes. This is the lowest number of blacks admitted to UCLA in more than 30 years, and it comes at a time when the other schools in the UC system are seeing an increase. In response to this issue, UCLA has recently decided to shift to a more "holistic" admissions process, similar to UC Berkeley's[23].

At the graduate level, in Fall 2005 the David Geffen School of Medicine admitted 4.5 percent of its applicants, the School of Law admitted 16.1 percent, and the Anderson School of Management admitted 30.6 percent[24].

According to the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Guide to Dental Schools, 44th Ed., the UCLA School of Dentistry had more than 1,465 applicants for 88 seats in the entering class of 2006. The average Dental Admissions Test (DAT) score for admitted students in the entering class of 2006 was 21.6 on the academic portion and 18.5 on the perceptual aptitude portion of the DAT.

Awards and honorary memberships

As of September 2006, current UCLA faculty (including emeriti) have received the following awards and count as honorary members of the following associations:

Nobel Prize Winning faculties and alumni

Faculty:

Alumni:

Library system

Powell Library

UCLA's library system has over eight million books and 70,000 serials spread over 12 libraries and 11 other archives, reading rooms, and research centers. It is among the top 15 largest library systems in the United States, and among the top 10 university library systems in the nation.[25].

List of libraries and other campus collections

As of 2006,

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Student Demographics

Athletics

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Official Athletic Logo

The school's sports teams are called the Bruins, with colors "true blue" and gold. The Bruins participate in NCAA Division I-A as part of the Pacific Ten Conference. Two notable sports facilities serve as home venues for UCLA sports. The Bruin football team plays home games at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California; the team won a national title in 1954. The men's and women's basketball and volleyball teams play at Pauley Pavilion on campus.

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Jackie Robinson, in his days as a Bruin, before integrating major league baseball
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Mens Basketball game at Pauley Pavilion on 1/8/05 when UCLA came from 22 down to upset Washington.

The Bruin mascots are Joe and Josephine Bruin, and the fight songs are Sons of Westwood and Mighty Bruins. The alma mater is Hail to the Hills of Westwood.


When Henry R. "Red" Sanders came to UCLA to coach football in 1949, the uniforms were redesigned. Sanders added a gold loop on the shoulders—the UCLA Stripe. The navy blue was changed to a lighter shade of blue. Sanders figured that the baby blue would look better on the field and in film. He dubbed the baby blue uniform "Powder Keg Blue," powder blue with an explosive kick.

UCLA is competitive in all major Division I-A sports and, as of 2006, has won 120 national championships, including 99 NCAA championships, more than any other university.[26] Among these championships, some of the more notable victories are in men's basketball. Under legendary coach John Wooden, UCLA men's basketball teams won 10 NCAA championships, including a record seven consecutive, in 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, and 1975, and an 11th was added under then-coach Jim Harrick in 1995 (thru 2006, the most consecutive by any other team is two). From 1971 to 1974, UCLA men's basketball won an unprecedented 88 consecutive games. Past rosters of UCLA sports teams have been filled with such greats such as Jackie Robinson, Gail Goodrich, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, Baron Davis, Reggie Miller, and Troy Aikman.

In regards to UCLA basketball and its high expectations, former UCLA basketball player and current Seattle Supersonics player Earl Watson commented, "Eleven national championships, the best coach to coach the game says a lot [John Wooden]. I take offense to those who act like UCLA is just another school compared to Duke. Duke is a great school in the east, but UCLA is worldwide."

UCLA has also shown dominance in men's volleyball, with 19 national championships. All 19 teams were led by current coach Al Scates, which ties him with John McDonnell of the University of Arkansas as NCAA leader for national championships in a single sport.

In addition to its basketball and volleyball championships, UCLA has won NCAA Division I championships in the following events:

Men's sports: Golf (1), Gymnastics (2), Soccer (4), Swimming (1), Tennis (16), Track & Field (8), Water Polo (8).

Women's sports: Golf (2), Gymnastics (5), Softball (10), Track & Field (5), Volleyball (3), Water Polo (4).

UCLA also won a title in Division I-A Football in 1954, however the NCAA does not award a championship for football.

UCLA has medaled in every Olympic Games they have participated in. In the 2004 Athens games, UCLA sent 56 athletes, more than any other university, who won 19 medals.

UCLA shares a traditional sports rivalry with the nearby University of Southern California. The Lexus Gauntlet is the name given to a competition between UCLA and USC in the 18 varsity sports that both compete in head-to-head; in 2006, USC won the Lexus Gauntlet Trophy.

In December of 2006, the UCLA football team defeated the USC Trojans 13-9. The UCLA victory ruined the Trojans' hopes to play in the BCS National Championship.

Student life

Associated Students UCLA (ASUCLA) is governed by a student majority board of directors. It is the umbrella organization that includes the two branches of UCLA's student government, the Graduate Students Association (GSA) and the Undergraduate Students Association Council (USAC), the UCLA Store, the Student Union, Restaurants, Trademark & Licensing, and Student Media (including the UCLA Daily Bruin).

Student Media Publications

Traditions and events

  • UCLA's official charity is Unicamp, which is 72 years old; it is a summer camp for lower-income children.
  • Spring Sing is an annual show of student talent, presented at the Los Angeles Tennis Center on campus. The Spring Sing Committee bestows the George and Ira Gershwin Award each year on a major contributor to the music industry. Past recipients have included Stevie Wonder, Babyface, k.d. lang, James Taylor, and, most recently, Burt Bacharach. The Spring Sing event has been held for over 60 years.
  • The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, a two-day book fair held the last weekend of April, is the largest annual gathering of publishers and authors in the country; there is no attendance charge
  • The quarterly Undie Run takes place during the Wednesday evening of Finals Week, when students run through the campus in their underwear or in skimpy costumes. It ends with students cavorting in the fountains outside Powell Library. For more, see [9].
  • To introduce new students to clubs and activities, UCLA starts the fall quarter with BruinBash on the Sunday before the first week of class, followed by other Welcome Week activities. The Bash includes a concert and a movie. BruinBash has supplanted an unofficial event, "Black Sunday," when fraternities held parties on the same night. Serious disturbances resulting in police activity impelled ASUCLA to begin BruinBash in 2003. Xzibit and Rooney played in 2006. Past entertainers have included Thrice and Common.

Filming at UCLA

Countless movies, TV shows, and commercials have been filmed at UCLA. With a location in the Westside of Los Angeles near Hollywood and a world-famous film and television school, the UCLA campus has attracted filming for decades. Also, UCLA's picturesque beauty and East Coast-college feel contributed to choosing UCLA for their location shoot.

In 1983, Breathless with Richard Gere was filmed in the Franklin Murphy Sculpture Garden. Much of the 1985 film Gotcha! was shot at UCLA, as well as John Singleton's Higher Learning (1995). TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, Felicity, and Alias show college campus scenes. Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor shows the actor running up the famous Janss Steps. Recent movies include Van Wilder, Scream, First Daughter, Old School, Peaceful Warrior, How High, Tomcats, Legally Blonde, Erin Brockovich, and Bring It On Again.

Royce Hall appears as The Hague in the 1998 film Mafia!, which parodies the Godfather series of films directed by UCLA alumnus Francis Ford Coppola.

Destiny's Child's video Bug A Boo was partially filmed at the UCLA campus.

"UCLA is located in Los Angeles, the same place as the American motion picture industry," said UCLA visiting professor of film and television Jonathan Kuntz. "So we're convenient for (almost) all of the movie companies, TV production companies, commercial companies and so on. We're right where the action is."

Activism and historical events

In 1995, 2001, and 2004, Mother Jones magazine named UCLA in its annual listing of the Top 10 Activist Campuses, reflecting the rallying spirit of its student bodies over the years. In the 1960s, along with other American campuses, UCLA emerged as a staging area for massive protests against the Vietnam War. The protests at UCLA began in 1967, when over 500 students protested the recruitment of graduates by Dow Chemicals, which produced napalm, an incendiary chemical used in the war. The protests escalated as the war continued.

During the 1969-1970 academic year, various activist organizations were infiltrated by federal agents who provoked conflicts between them. On January 17,1969, UCLA students and Black Panther Party members John Huggins, 23, and Bunchy Carter, 26, were slain in Campbell Hall by members of United Slaves, a rival black power organization headed by Maulana Karenga. Later, it was reported that members of the FBI had infiltrated both groups and exacerbated tensions between them as part of the COINTELPRO program.[27]

Later in 1969, the UC regents fired Angela Davis, a radical feminist and lecturer in the Philosophy Department, for openly identifying as a member of the Communist Party. Outraged faculty threatened to withhold grades if Davis was not reinstated, and nearly 2,000 students crammed into Royce Hall's auditorium when Davis delivered her first lecture despite the regents' decision to remove credit for the class. The overflowing audience gave the 25-year-old professor a standing ovation. On October 22, Vice Chancellor Charles E. Young complied with a state superior court order overruling the regents' decision by restoring course credit to Davis's class. Eight months later, the regents again dismissed Davis from the UCLA faculty.[28]

On May 5,1970 students protesting the Kent State shootings marched through campus and vandalized several buildings, including an ROTC building. A fire caused $5,000 worth of damage, destroying part of Murphy Hall. Chancellor Young declared a State of Emergency and summoned the LAPD on campus; 74 arrests were made and 12 people reported injuries. This demonstration and many others at UC campuses throughout the state caused then-Governor Ronald Reagan to shut down the state's colleges and universities for the first time in California's history.

Campus political debate in the 1980s centered primarily on the South African government's apartheid policies, the U.S.'s Central American policy, as well as the implementation of affirmative action in the state. In 1988 poor race relations on campus lead to student riots[29] over the disqualification of Lloyd Monserratt as student body president in a campaign that pitted a coalition of minority students[30][31], against the candidates put forth by members of the Greek system (this antagonism continues today).[32][33]

In the 1990s, student activists tended to focus on university and statewide concerns, such as union recognition for graduate teaching assistants, the expansion of the Chicano Studies Center, Proposition 187, which denied social services to illegal immigrants, and Proposition 209, which ended affirmative action in California.

More recently, conservatives on campus have initiated well-publicized political actions. The Bruin Republicans held the first affirmative action bake sale protesting racial preferences in 2003, a practice which has been copied by other conservative student groups at universities across the country. In 2006, Andrew Jones, former Bruin Republicans president and Daily Bruin columnist, founded the IRS-recognized non-profit organization known as the Bruin Alumni Association, though the organization is not affiliated with the university, with Bruin Republicans, or with any on-campus student organization. Its stated purpose is to expose the "Dirty Thirty" most liberal professors at UCLA. Controversy developed over Jones' unethical offer of monetary compensation for students who recorded the lectures of left-wing faculty members for later exposure on his site.

Other recent activism includes a movement since 2004 to pressure the UC Regents to divest from Sudan because of the mass killings in the Darfur region. In March 2006 the Regents voted in favor of divestment, becoming the largest university system yet to do so.

On November 17, 2006, 400 protesters,[34] including UCLA faculties and staffs, parents, community members, and UCLA students, gathered at Kerckhoff Hall to protest the UCLA Taser incident.

UCLA, ARPANET, and the Internet

ARPANET, the world's first electronic computer network, was established on October 29, 1969 between nodes at Leonard Kleinrock's lab at UCLA and Douglas Engelbart's lab at Stanford Research Institute, in Menlo Park, CA. Interface Message Processors at both sites served as the backbone of the first Internet.[35] In addition to SRI and UCLA, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and University of Utah were part of the original four network nodes.

Turing Award laureate, Vinton Cerf, was a doctoral student in the computer science department under Kleinrock in early 1970s and also worked on the ARPANET. He would later team with Bob Kahn in the writing of the seminal 1974 paper A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication. This work proved foundational for their later development of the Transmission Control Protocol - TCP/IP protocol.

In 1988, Kleinrock also chaired a group which produced the report Toward a National Research Network. [36] This report was presented to Congress and was so influential on then-Senator Al Gore that it proved to be the foundation for what would be passed as the High Performance Computing Act of 1991, written and developed by Gore.[37] This act would prove pivotal towards the development of the Internet during the 1990s; in particular it led to the development of the MOSAIC web browser, which was funded by the High-Performance Computing and Communications Initiative, a program created by the High Performance Computing Act of 1991.

On January 11,1994, then-Vice-President Al Gore further articulated the goals of the Clinton administration in the development of the "Information Superhighway" at UCLA's Royce Hall.[38] In 2001, Gore joined the faculty of UCLA as a visiting professor in the School of Public Policy and Social Research, Department of Policy Studies, family-centered community building.

Peripheral enterprises

UCLA Healthcare

The UCLA Medical Center is actually part of a larger healthcare system, UCLA Healthcare, which also operates a hospital in Santa Monica and seven primary care clinics throughout Los Angeles County. In addition, the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine uses three Los Angeles County hospitals as teaching hospitals: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and Olive View-UCLA Medical Center.

In 1981, the UCLA Medical Center made history when an assistant professor named Michael Gottlieb first diagnosed an unknown affliction later to be called AIDS.

UCLA medical researchers pioneered the use of PET scanning to study brain function. Nitric oxide, one of the most important molecules in cardiopulmonary physiology was discovered by UCLA researchers, who were awarded the Nobel Prize. This discovery has revolutionized medicine.

In the 2006 edition of U.S. News and World Report, UCLA Medical Center was ranked best in the West, as well as one of the top 5 hospitals in the United States alongside Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Johns Hopkins Hospital. UCLA ranked higher than Stanford Hospital and Clinics, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, Harvard affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, and UCSF Medical Center. UCLA Medical Center ranked in the top 20 in 15 of the 16 medical specialty areas examined. Specialties ranked in the top 20: Cancer (9th), Heart and Heart Surgery (9th), Neurology and Neurosurgery (7th), Psychiatry (5th), Endocrinology (10th), Pediatrics (15th), Opthamology (5th), Ear Nose and Throat (11th), Respiratory Disorders (13th), Orthopedics (8th), Kidney Disease (8th), Rheumatology (7th), Digestive Disorders (5th), and Gynecology (12th). [39]

UCLA Housing and Hospitality Services

UCLA offers a wide array of housing opportunities. The campus undergraduate residence halls include Dykstra Hall, Hedrick Hall, Rieber Hall, Sproul Hall, De Neve Plaza (Acacia, Birch, Cedar, Dogwood, Evergreen, Fir), Sunset Village (Courtside, Delta Terrace, Canyon Point), Hedrick Summit, Rieber Terrace, Rieber Vista, Saxon Suites, and Hitch Suites. Spread amongst these residence halls are four main dining rooms and three boutique-style eateries, serving foods ranging from burritos to The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf products. Graduate housing is provided in the form of university-owned apartments covering 16 complexes, including Weyburn Terrace for single students, and University Village for married/family housing. Besides operating the usual dormitories and apartment buildings, UCLA also runs a small, full-service, on-campus hotel, the UCLA Guest House, and a full-service conference center, the UCLA Conference Center, in the San Bernardino Mountains near Lake Arrowhead. This is a peripheral enterprise as UCLA does not have a hotel management program.

UCLA Trademarks and Licensing

The UCLA name also doubles as an overseas clothing and accessories brand; in certain Asian countries, it is considered fashionable to adorn oneself with the UCLA brand name. This trend may arise from the school's academic reputation and popular images of the Southern California lifestyle, emphasizing freedom in a land of perpetual sunshine. High demand for UCLA apparel has inspired the licensing of its trademark to UCLA brand stores throughout East Asia.[40] In 1980, it was noted that more UCLA clothing merchandise was sold in Japan annually than in the school's own Student Union store on campus.[citation needed]

Notable alumni and faculty

Notes

  1. ^ Annual Endowment Report 2005. University of California. Accessed December 06, 2006.
  2. ^ Campus Profile. UCLA Admissions. Accessed May 13, 2006.
  3. ^ Bruin Bear Mascot. UCLA. Accessed November 11, 2006.
  4. ^ "The Washington Monthly's Annual College Guide". Washington Monthly. September 2006. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ "America's Best Colleges 2007". U.S. News & World Report. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  6. ^ NSF ranks UCLA as a top research university. Bizjournals: Los Angeles Business Accessed May 9, 2006.
  7. ^ "The Top 100 Global Universities". "Newsweek".
  8. ^ Campus Profile. UCLA Admissions. Accessed May 13, 2006.
  9. ^ Historical background. UCLA University Archives. Accessed June 20, 2006.
  10. ^ The Daily Bruin Is Born. A History of the UCLA Daily Bruin, 1919-1955. Accessed July 3, 2006.
  11. ^ UC History Digital Archives. University of California History, Digital Archives. Accessed June 20, 2006.
  12. ^ Alumni Stories. Alumni Impact Report. Accessed June 20, 2006.
  13. ^ Communists on Campus (Part 1 of 3). UCLA Alumni Association. Accessed March 20, 2006.
  14. ^ 2007 Kaplan Guide to Colleges Accessed August 18, 2006
  15. ^ 25 New Ivies Accessed August 18, 2006
  16. ^ The Washington Monthly College Rankings. Washington Monthly. Accessed August 18, 2006.
  17. ^ Education news & resources at the Times Higher Education Supplement, retrieved July 7, 2006
  18. ^ Research dollars recognized. Daily Bruin. Accessed July 6, 2006.
  19. ^ [1] "ISI Highly Cited Researchers Version 1.1". Accessed December 2, 2006.
  20. ^ 1995 National Research Council Report on Quality in Ph.D. Education in the U.S.. UC Berkeley Graduate Publications. Accessed July 6, 2006.
  21. ^ [2].
  22. ^ Profile of Admitted Freshmen Fall 2006. UCLA Admissions. Accessed May 21, 2006.
  23. ^ [3]. LA Times. Accessed Oct 20, 2006.
  24. ^ USNews.com: University of California, Los Angeles (2006). U.S. News & World Report. Accessed June 25, 2006.
  25. ^ [4] The Nation's Largest LibrariesAmerican Library Association. Accessed December 12, 2006.
  26. ^ UCLA championships. Official athletic site. Accessed May 8, 2006.
  27. ^ | Tribute recalls fallen Black Panthers. Daily Bruin. Accessed November 26, 2006.
  28. ^ Communists on Campus (Part 3 of 3). UCLA Alumni Association. Accessed March 20, 2006.
  29. ^ AP, Report (May 29, 1988). "U.C.L.A. Protesters Disrupt Voting for Student President". New York Times. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  30. ^ PASTERNAK, JUDY (May 27, 1988). "Racial Tension Erupts In Melee at UCLA (Part 2; Pg. 1)". Los Angeles Times. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  31. ^ Suvansilpakit, Vanda (January 13, 2003). "Political activist, former Bruin dies". Daily Bruin. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  32. ^ Soteros-Mcnamara, Thomas (April 18, 2002). "Ballot, online voting have pros, cons". Daily Bruin. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |http://www.dailybruin.com/news/printable.asp?id= ignored (help)
  33. ^ Gordon, Larry (June 2, 1988). "Bodyguards Assigned To UCLA Activists for Vote (Part 2; p. 1)". Los Angeles Times. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  34. ^ Cite error: The named reference bruin-ucla-community was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  35. ^ Internet Began 35 Years Ago at UCLA. News: Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Accessed October 30, 2004.
  36. ^ Toward a National Research Network (1988). The National Academic Press. Accessed March 20, 2006.
  37. ^ A bill...to ensure continued United States leadership in high-performance computing. MIT Web archive. Accessed March 20, 2006.
  38. ^ Archive Index 1994, January 13, 1994: Vol. 14, No. 9. UCLA Today. Accessed March 20, 2006.
  39. ^ US News and World Report Hospital Rankings. US News and World Report. Accessed December 2, 2006.
  40. ^ UCLA name, L.A. lifestyle marketable overseas. Daily Bruin. Accessed May 13, 2005.

See also

Student Life

Admissions Statistics

History

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