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Feb 26, 1996
INDEX 1996
FEBRUARY 26, 1996 (Volume 16, No.12)
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.
YOUNG'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF RETIREMENT IN 1997 SHOCKS, SADDENS CAMPUS - Charles E. Young, UCLA Chancellor for 27 years, UC elder statesman and Los Angeles community leader to retire in June 1997.
RACE BAN TO TAKE EFFECT SPRING 1998 - Regents compromise on admissions timetable and agree to Spring 1998 effective date.
AROUND CAMPUS - Police Community Service Center; Kenny Burrell named director of UCLA Jazz Studies Program; Library and Information Science
ADDED SECURITY TO PROTECT LIBRARY COLLECTION - Library administrators improve security systems to safeguard from library theft of special collections.
DUKAKIS: BUCHANAN WILL FAIL IN BID FOR TOP JOB - Michael Dukakis makes the prediction at Chancellor's Association breakfast.
NEWS IN BRIEF - voter drive; HIV marker; fee increase for graduate students; affirmative action symposium
DIRECTOR GALVANIZES LABS' WAR ON CANCER - As head of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Judith Gasson is linking basic and clinical researchers with an active group of volunteer fundraisers.
PROF LOOKS BEYOND CHICANA FILM TO EXPLORE OTHER MEDIA - Chon Noriega, professor, School of Theater, Film & Television, has moved from the study of Chicanos in film to a broader look at elements of identity.
WHO'S NEW – James Welling, Area Head of Photography in the Department of Art
NAMES AND FACES - Robert Winter; Ronald K. Tompkins; Stuart White; H. Rodney Withers; Richard Hoard; Alan Felsenfeld; Abeer Alwan; Roger Sherman; Bartly J. Mondino; John R. Heckenlively; Suraj P. Bhat
TEAM FINDS NEW CULPRITS IN AIR POLLUTION - Sheldon K Friedlander, Parsons Professor of Chemical Engineering and director of UCLA=s Aerosol Technology Laboratory, and his team have uncovered a group of chemicals that could be associated with lung damage caused by breathing air pollution.
SCIENTISTS WORK TO STEM TOXIC FLOW INTO SEA - Michael Stenstrom, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Irwin Suffet of the School of Public Health explore ways to keep harmful chemicals from reaching the ocean.
PROTECTING RESOURCES - Stunt Ranch trail; non-polluting refrigerants; Asmart@ glass tests parasites; Geography 5
SAFER OPTIONS SOUGHT TO DRY-CLEANING SOLVENTS - Robert Gottleib, director of UCLA Pollution Prevention Education and Research Center is administering a project for a wet-cleaning process.
MEXICAN SCIENTISTS TO UNDERGO TRAINING TO CLEAN UP AIR, WATER - Mexican scientists to undergo environmental research training in the U.S. then return to Mexico.
LOVE OF PERIOD FORGES 31-YEAR-OLD TRADITION - Since 1964, the Neo-Areopagus Society, has gathered in the home of English Professor, James Phillips for lively discourses on art, music, literature and history of the Renaissance period.
CAMPUS RECYCLING REAPS 15 TONS A MONTH - Renewable resources on campus average 15 tons per month.
'ROUND AND ABOUT - ACourageous Voices @ exhibit; art of book collecting; AMystic Voices@ ; American Indian Museum; social inequities
UCLA RISES 'ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS' - Opinion - Barry Munitz is chancellor of the California State University
YOUNG, UCLA: NOW ONE AND THE SAME - Opinion - Andrea L. Rich, executive vice chancellor emeritus of UCLA is president and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
IT'S A TOUGH JOB BUT SOMEONE HAS TO DO IT - Opinion - Charles E. Lewis is director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and chair of the UCLA Academic Senate
CLASS PORTRAIT: NINE YEARS AFTER - Nine years after their UCLA career, class portrait shows higher success ratings overall for Bruins according to Higher Education Research Institute.
