﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut</link><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:07:37 GMT</pubDate><title>Voices</title><description /><copyright>UCLA Today</copyright><generator>iPressroom.com</generator><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Verbatim -- space telescope, Obama in China, human language genes and breast cancer</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/veerbatim-telescopes-in-space-112847.aspx?link_page_rss=112847</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/veerbatim-telescopes-in-space-112847.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[The UCLA faculty is quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355374" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:07:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Daniel J.B. Mitchell</author><title>Reading between the lines: Legislature's fiscal advisers endorse privatizing UC</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-legislative-analyst-endorses-112789.aspx?link_page_rss=112789</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-legislative-analyst-endorses-112789.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus in the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the School of Public Affairs.
 
Undoubtedly, you will have seen headlines about a recent report from the Legislative Analyst&rsquo;s Office (LAO)... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355311" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:04:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Verbatim — Same-sex parents, TV fashions, cosmic rays and immigrant healthcare</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-same-sex-parents-tv-clothing-112173.aspx?link_page_rss=112173</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-same-sex-parents-tv-clothing-112173.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection:
 
&ldquo;Clearly, in the minds of same-sex couples who are marrying or think of themselves as married, you are not decoupling... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=355058" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:46:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Verbatim -- Internet brains, medical marijuana, soda sweeteners and animal research</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-internet-brains-medical-111587.aspx?link_page_rss=111587</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-internet-brains-medical-111587.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection:
 
&quot;Performing Internet searches for even a relatively short period of time can change brain activity patterns and enhance... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354337" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:27:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Lee Ohanian</author><title>A temporary hiring tax credit?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-temporary-hiring-tax-credit-111507.aspx?link_page_rss=111507</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/a-temporary-hiring-tax-credit-111507.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Lee E. Ohanian is professor of economics, and director of the Ettinger Program in Macroeconomic Research at UCLA. He is the author of &quot;New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression,&quot; with Harold Cole. This op-ed appeared originally in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=354310" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:28:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mark Sawyer</author><title>There's no defense for blackface</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/there-s-no-defense-for-blackface-111382.aspx?link_page_rss=111382</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/there-s-no-defense-for-blackface-111382.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mark Sawyer is associate professor of African American studies and political science and director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. This op-ed appeared originally on Oct. 14 in CNN.com. Sawyer's  book, &quot;Racial Politics... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=339834" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:32:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Daniel J.B. Mitchell</author><title>To post or not to post? A question for the Bee</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/to-post-or-not-to-post-a-question-111317.aspx?link_page_rss=111317</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/to-post-or-not-to-post-a-question-111317.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ 
Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus at the Anderson School and School of Public Affairs at UCLA.
 
 
 
Recently, two Nobel prizes were awarded to faculty members at University of California campuses. So... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=336431" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:23:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Lynn Stout</author><title>Why we need derivatives regulations</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-we-need-derivatives-regulations-111185.aspx?link_page_rss=111185</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-we-need-derivatives-regulations-111185.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Lynn A. Stout is the Paul Hastings professor of corporate and securities law at UCLA's School of Law. This op-ed appeared originally Oct. 7 at the New York Times DealBook blog.
 
 
 
 
What caused the 2008 credit crisis?... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=324626" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:20:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Steven L. Spiegel</author><title>Why Obama’s Mideast policy can work</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-obama-s-mideast-policy-can-111181.aspx?link_page_rss=111181</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-obama-s-mideast-policy-can-111181.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Steven L. Spiegel is a professor of political science and director of the Center for Middle East Development at UCLA.
 
I am sick and tired of hearing about how Obama is &ldquo;not good for the Jews,&rdquo; or, as a friend of mine put it recently,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=324625" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:36:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kelsey Sharpe</author><title>Verbatim — Same-sex marriages, Alzheimer's, movie rentals and unemployment</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-same-sex-marriages-alzheimer-102691.aspx?link_page_rss=102691</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-same-sex-marriages-alzheimer-102691.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection:
 
&quot;Even though in 2008 there were only a few states where you could get legally married, a large portion of same-sex couples... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=305964" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:04:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Edward Abeyta, Juliann Martinez and Bill Johansen</author><title>Bringing everyone to the table in middle of a storm</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bringing-everyone-to-the-table-102666.aspx?link_page_rss=102666</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bringing-everyone-to-the-table-102666.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Edward Abeyta and Juliann Martinez are UC staff advisors. Bill Johansen is an emeritus staff advisor.
 
It is unfortunately true that the current financial climate has left us numb as we read headlines and stories about layoffs and... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=303587" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:12:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jeffrey Milyo and Tim Groseclose</author><title>Who's afraid of political speech?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/who-s-afraid-of-political-speech-102637.aspx?link_page_rss=102637</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/who-s-afraid-of-political-speech-102637.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Tim GrosecloseTim Groseclose is the Marvin Hoffenberg Chair of American Politics at UCLA. Jeffrey Milyo is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, the Middlebush Professor of Social Science at the University of Missouri and the Hanna Family Scholar... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=301958" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:44:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mark G. Yudof</author><title>Why UC has to raise tuition</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-uc-has-to-raise-tuition-102610.aspx?link_page_rss=102610</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-uc-has-to-raise-tuition-102610.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mark G. Yudof is UC president. This appeared Sept. 29 in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
 
California is experiencing an economic crisis that will most likely take years to resolve. The result has been a devastating reduction in state appropriations... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=301947" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:15:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alvaro Huerta</author><title>Health care reforms should apply to all immigrants</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/immigrants-even-those-who-are-102475.aspx?link_page_rss=102475</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/immigrants-even-those-who-are-102475.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Alvaro Huerta is a visiting scholar at UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center. He is also a doctoral student in city and urban planning at UC Berkeley. 
 
Immigrants, even those who are here without documentation, deserve health care.
 
Let’s... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=286787" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:23:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>David Jentsch and Dario Ringach</author><title>Scientists must together face threats  of animal rights extremists</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/scientists-must-step-up-to-defend-102242.aspx?link_page_rss=102242</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/scientists-must-step-up-to-defend-102242.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
David Jentsch
 
Dario RingachDavid Jentsch and Dario Ringach are UCLA neuroscientists who have been the targets of attacks and harassment by animal rights extremists. They are active in UCLA Pro-Test, an organization founded by Jentsch this... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=278844" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:52:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Verbatim -- government disasters, surviving a recession, depression and other hot topics</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-government-disasters-102040.aspx?link_page_rss=102040</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-government-disasters-102040.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects: Here is a recent selection: 

“Large organizations can develop dead zones in the middle, where there are too many layers of management and no one is coordinating.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=265042" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:26:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kal Raustiala</author><title>Is the American century over?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/is-the-american-century-over-101990.aspx?link_page_rss=101990</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/is-the-american-century-over-101990.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Kal Raustiala is a professor of law. He is the director of the Burkle Center for International Relations. This op-ed appeared originally in the Huffington Post on Sept. 12.

 

 

Is the Obama administration, consumed with the domestic... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=260030" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:28:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Labor research, education needed to serve state</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/labor-research-education-needed-101631.aspx?link_page_rss=101631</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/labor-research-education-needed-101631.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Kent Wong

Ken Jacobs is chairman of the UC-Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, and Kent Wong is director of the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education. This op-ed originally appeared Sept. 6 in the Mercury News. 



 

Labor... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=247176" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:44:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mark G. Yudof</author><title>UC in danger of losing critical mass of top thinkers</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-in-danger-of-losing-critical-100753.aspx?link_page_rss=100753</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/uc-in-danger-of-losing-critical-100753.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mark G. Yudof is president of the University of California. This op-ed appeared originally in The Daily Californian on Sept. 1.
 
Societies produce relatively few individuals who can both disseminate knowledge and discover new knowledge.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=233893" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:01:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Daniel J.B. Mitchell</author><title>Déjà vu on universal health care?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/deja-vu-on-universal-health-care-100026.aspx?link_page_rss=100026</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/deja-vu-on-universal-health-care-100026.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus of the Anderson School of Management and School of Public Affairs. This op-ed is based on a longer article that appeared in WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society , Vol. 11, pp. 199-218. Available... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=221796" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:42:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The wrong stimulus for this overdue recession</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-wrong-stimulus-for-this-overdue-99925.aspx?link_page_rss=99925</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-wrong-stimulus-for-this-overdue-99925.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Edward Leamer, economics and statistics professor, is director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast. His commentary appeared August 19 in the Los Angeles Times online in response to this question: Would the economy be worse off without the Obama administration's... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=217327" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:58:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>E. Richard Brown and Gerald F. Kominski</author><title>Fairer living-wage law would put health insurance within reach</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/fairer-living-wage-law-would-put-99612.aspx?link_page_rss=99612</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/fairer-living-wage-law-would-put-99612.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
E. Richard Brown.
 
Gerald F. Kominski.E. Richard Brown is the founding director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Gerald F. Kominski is associate director of the center. Both are professors in the School of Public Health.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=212628" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:03:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Emilia Barrosse</author><title>Verbatim -- pneumonia vaccine, the Jackson kids, immigration reform, gangs, exercise</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-pneumonia-vaccine-the-97792.aspx?link_page_rss=97792</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-pneumonia-vaccine-the-97792.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection: 
 
 
&quot;As a public health measure, it makes sense to target the groups we would be most worried about, independent of... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=192256" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:14:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Gary Blasi</author><title>Santa Monica strugles to maintain kinder, gentler image</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/santa-monica-can-t-hide-behind-97436.aspx?link_page_rss=97436</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/santa-monica-can-t-hide-behind-97436.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Blasi, a professor of law, is one of the founding faculty of the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law. In 2007, he was named on e of the top 100 lawyers in California, cited as the 'go-to lawyer for community... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=183618" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:12:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Dr. John Stobo and Dr. Tom Rosenthal</author><title>Los Angeles is not Minnesota when it comes to health care needs</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/los-angeles-is-not-minnesota-when-97354.aspx?link_page_rss=97354</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/los-angeles-is-not-minnesota-when-97354.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Dr. J. Thomas RosenthalDr. Stobo is senior vice president of University of California Health Sciences and Services. Dr. Rosenthal is chief medical officer of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and associate vice chancellor of the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=182198" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:33:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Quality, access and cost are keys to healthcare reform</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/quality-access-and-cost-are-keys-97350.aspx?link_page_rss=97350</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/quality-access-and-cost-are-keys-97350.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Subramaniam Ramanarayanan, assistant professor of policy in UCLA's Anderson School of Management, addressed healthcare reform in this video interview. <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=180699" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:04:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Verbatim -- California's budget crisis, free speech, nudity, lupus and marijuana.</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-california-s-budget-crisis-97224.aspx?link_page_rss=97224</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-california-s-budget-crisis-97224.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection: 
 
 
&quot;It's not any individual's fault that they are exposed to them (stereotypes of blacks that are violent and criminal).... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=179208" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:58:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Will Congress pass health care reform?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/will-congress-pass-health-care-97023.aspx?link_page_rss=97023</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/will-congress-pass-health-care-97023.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mark Peterson, professor of public policy and political science, provides analysis on the push for healthcare overhaul on &quot;Midmorning&quot; on Minnesota Public Radio on July 23.
 
Hear it here.  <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=171124" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:33:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What happens if we legalize pot?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/what-happens-if-we-legalize-pot-96683.aspx?link_page_rss=96683</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/what-happens-if-we-legalize-pot-96683.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mark A.R. Kleiman is a professor of public policy and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. He is also the author of “Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results” and a new book, “When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment,”... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=168189" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:36:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Daniel J.B. Mitchell</author><title>California -- golden dream to golden mean</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/california-golden-dream-to-golden-96368.aspx?link_page_rss=96368</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/california-golden-dream-to-golden-96368.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus of the Anderson Graduate School of Management and the School of Public Affairs.  

National news media are filled with stories of California dysfunction, attracted by the state’s fiscal crisis, the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=166671" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:46:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Saree Makdisi</author><title>Crisis at the University of California?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-crisis-at-the-university-of-96304.aspx?link_page_rss=96304</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-crisis-at-the-university-of-96304.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Saree Makdisi is a professor of English. This op-ed appeared originally in the Huffington Post on July 15.
 
About to declare a financial emergency, the University of California is entering what could turn out to be its last crisis, the outcome... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=159888" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:34:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Verbatim -- the death penalty, cancer therapies, parent soliders, graceful aging, the economy</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-the-death-penalty-cancer-96007.aspx?link_page_rss=96007</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-the-death-penalty-cancer-96007.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of subjects. Here is a recent selection. 
  
“Most murders can be charged as death penalty crimes, so it often comes down to the preference – and politics – of a... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156887" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:04:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Calla Wiemer</author><title>Ethnic strife puts remote region in China in spotlight</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ethnic-stife-puts-remote-region-95856.aspx?link_page_rss=95856</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/ethnic-stife-puts-remote-region-95856.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Calla Wiemer is a visiting scholar at UCLA's Center for Chinese Studies. Her op-ed was published on July 9 in the Far Eastern Economic Review. 

Suddenly, the world’s attention is on Xinjiang in remote western China. This is a welcome development,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=156873" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:20:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lesson from New York City: Let principals lead, teachers teach</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/lesson-from-new-york-city-let-94665.aspx?link_page_rss=94665</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/lesson-from-new-york-city-let-94665.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Ouchi is the Sanford and Betty Sigoloff Distinguished Professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles. His book, &quot;The Secret of TSL,&quot; will be published in the fall. This op-ed was originally run in the New York Daily News on June 7.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=155232" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:44:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judea Pearl</author><title>Why Israelis are cool on the Obama speech</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/judea-pearl-94218.aspx?link_page_rss=94218</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/judea-pearl-94218.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Judea Pearl is a professor of computer science and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, founded in memory of his son to promote cross-cultural understanding. This op-ed was originally published by the Wall Street Journal on June 12. 
 
A... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=154714" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:23:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Kal Raustiala</author><title>Will Bagram Air Base become the new Guantanamo?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/will-bagram-air-base-become-the-93250.aspx?link_page_rss=93250</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/will-bagram-air-base-become-the-93250.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Kal Raustiala is director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and a professor at the UCLA Law School and the UCLA International Institute, where he teaches in the Program on Global Studies. This op-ed was first published by the Huffington... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=153143" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 23:05:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Daniel J.B. Mitchell</author><title>Budget fiasco: What do we do now?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/budget-fiasco-what-do-we-do-now-92904.aspx?link_page_rss=92904</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/budget-fiasco-what-do-we-do-now-92904.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus at the Anderson School of Management and distinguished professor of public policy at the School of Public Affairs. This piece is adapted from one that ran May 20 on the Los Angeles Times website. 
 
 
 
 
 
The... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152620" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 19:00:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Amy Zegart</author><title>Congress' poor oversight of intelligence is a longstanding problem</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/congress-has-long-been-deficient-92801.aspx?link_page_rss=92801</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/congress-has-long-been-deficient-92801.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Photo by Stan PaulAmy Zegart is an associate professor of public policy at the School of Public Affairs, a Fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. This op-ed,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=152516" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 18:16:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Neal Halfon and Bruce Fuller</author><title>Think twice about Prop.  1D</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/think-twice-about-prop-1d-91237.aspx?link_page_rss=91237</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/think-twice-about-prop-1d-91237.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Dr. Neal HalfonDr. Neal Halfon is a UCLA professor of pediatrics, public health and public policy. He is director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities. Bruce Fuller is a professor of sociology and education at UC Berkeley.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=151481" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 22:06:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Hiroshi Motomura</author><title>U.S. practice of legalizing non-citizens blurs line on immigration</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/u-s-practice-of-legalizing-non-89658.aspx?link_page_rss=89658</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/u-s-practice-of-legalizing-non-89658.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Hiroshi Motomura is a professor at the School of Law at UCLA. He is the author of “Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States,” and has written a recent essay, “Immigration Outside the Law, in the Columbia... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=145834" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:07:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>John Rogers</author><title>Teacher layoffs would hit schools with students of color, low-income hardest</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/teacher-layoffs-would-hit-schools-89421.aspx?link_page_rss=89421</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/teacher-layoffs-would-hit-schools-89421.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Rogers is associate professor of education and director of UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA), a research institute seeking to understand and challenge pervasive racial and social class inequalities in education. This... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=144750" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:44:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Janet Afary</author><title>Is the Islamic Republic of Iran headed for a sexual revolution?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/is-the-islamic-republic-of-iran-88685.aspx?link_page_rss=88685</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/is-the-islamic-republic-of-iran-88685.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Janet Afary is a visiting professor in the Department of History and the author of a forthcoming book, “Sexual Politics in Modern Iran” (Cambridge University Press, 2009). This op-ed recently appeared in the Guardian newspaper. 

Last month, there were... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=141110" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:16:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Daniel J.B. Mitchell</author><title>The Detroit bailout -- Part 2</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-detroit-bailout-part-2-87264.aspx?link_page_rss=87264</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-detroit-bailout-part-2-87264.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus of the Anderson School of Management and the School of Public Affairs. 

On March 30, President Obama announced a new plan to bail out Detroit’s Big Three companies, offering possible tax incentives for consumers... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=138550" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:58:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Sanford M. Jacoby and Sally Kohn</author><title>Japan offers corporate America lessons in management</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/japan-offers-corporate-america-86978.aspx?link_page_rss=86978</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/japan-offers-corporate-america-86978.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Sanford M. Jacoby is the Howard Noble Professor of Management and the area chair of human resources and organizational behavior at the Anderson School of Management. He is author of “The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance &amp; Employment Relations... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=136182" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:05:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Lee E. Ohanian</author><title>Obama must do more to oppose anti-reform education unions</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/obama-s-argument-for-competition-86758.aspx?link_page_rss=86758</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/obama-s-argument-for-competition-86758.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Lee E. Ohanian is a professor of economics and director of the Ettinger Family Program in Macroeconomic Research at UCLA. A slightly different version of this op-ed recently appeared in Forbes magazine. He testified before the U.S. Senate March... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=135394" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:28:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Michael A. Stoll and Steven Raphael</author><title>Paying more, but getting less from prisons</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/paying-more-but-getting-less-from-86595.aspx?link_page_rss=86595</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/paying-more-but-getting-less-from-86595.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Michael A. Stoll is chairman and professor of public policy at the School of Public Affairs at UCLA. Steven Raphael is acting dean and professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley They are the editors of a new book, “Do Prisons Make... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=133692" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:59:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Compiled by Ajay Singh</author><title>Verbatim -- Madoff, egos, student drinking, Proposition 8, guns and recession</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-madoff-egos-student-drinking-85627.aspx?link_page_rss=85627</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-madoff-egos-student-drinking-85627.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[“In the beginning, he will be besieged by mail that will be threatening and accusatory. There will be people trying to scam him and people who think he’s hiding money. There will be inmates asking for money, and you don’t want them to disbelieve you... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=131722" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:40:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Phillip Atiba Goff &amp; Jennifer L. Eberhardt</author><title>It’s shameful and disturbing to associate African Americans with apes</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/it-s-shameful-and-disturbing-to-83971.aspx?link_page_rss=83971</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/it-s-shameful-and-disturbing-to-83971.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Phillip Atiba Goff is an assistant professor of psychology at UCLA and Jennifer L. Eberhardt is an associate professor of psychology at Stanford University. This op-ed was recently published in the Los Angeles Times.

An apology has been issued. The... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=126178" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:50:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jennifer L. Mnookin</author><title>How scientific is forensic science?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-scientific-is-forensic-science-82933.aspx?link_page_rss=82933</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-scientific-is-forensic-science-82933.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Jennifer L. Mnookin is a professor and vice dean at the School of Law. This op-ed was recently published in the Los Angeles Times.


On television shows such as the “CSI” series, forensic science is high-tech, heroic and always right. The National Academy... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=123852" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:44:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Alvaro Huerta</author><title>The harsh reality -- and hypocrisy -- of government aid</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-harsh-reality-and-hypocrisy-82412.aspx?link_page_rss=82412</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-harsh-reality-and-hypocrisy-82412.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Alvaro Huerta is a visiting scholar at UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center. He is also a doctoral student in city and urban planning at UC Berkeley. 

In times of financial turmoil and massive corporate bailouts, we shouldn’t forget one simple... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=121312" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:44:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Otto Santa Ana</author><title>May Day marchers still have score to settle</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/may-day-marchers-still-have-score-81856.aspx?link_page_rss=81856</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/may-day-marchers-still-have-score-81856.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Otto Santa Ana, an empirical sociolinguist and critical discourse analyst, is an associate professor at the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. A Spanish-language version of this op-ed recently appeared in La Opinión. 

The Los... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=118715" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:08:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>John de Figueirdo</author><title>How to allocate stimulus package funds fairly</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-to-allocate-stimulus-package-81696.aspx?link_page_rss=81696</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/how-to-allocate-stimulus-package-81696.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[John de Figueiredo is an associate professor at both the Anderson School of Management and the School of Law. This comment recently appeared in BusinessWeek magazine. 

President Obama couldn’t have put it more plainly: “We’re not having earmarks in... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=118253" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:50:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Judea Pearl</author><title>Daniel Pearl and the normalization of evil</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/daniel-pearl-and-the-normalization-81693.aspx?link_page_rss=81693</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/daniel-pearl-and-the-normalization-81693.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Judea Pearl is a professor of computer science and a frequent writer on East-West relations and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is a shorter version of an op-ed that recently appeared in the Wall Street Journal. 

This week marks the seventh anniversary... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=118239" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:07:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Christopher S. Tang and ManMohan S. Sodhi</author><title>Now's the time for struggling companies to reinvent themselves</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/four-business-tips-for-struggling-81059.aspx?link_page_rss=81059</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/four-business-tips-for-struggling-81059.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Christopher S. Tang is professor in operations management at the Anderson School of Management, where he holds the Edward W. Carter chair in business administration. ManMohan S. Sodhi is professor in operations management at Cass Business School, City... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=115969" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:14:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>David Lewin</author><title>Share the economic pain: cut salaries, not employees</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/coping-with-the-downturn-by-cutting-80656.aspx?link_page_rss=80656</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/coping-with-the-downturn-by-cutting-80656.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[David Lewin is Neil H. Jacoby Professor of Management, Human Resources and Organizational Behavior at the Anderson School of Management. This op-ed recently ran in the Wall Street Journal. 

In a downturn, most employers cut jobs to reduce labor costs.... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=115534" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:44:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sound Bites: Staffers share their money-saving tips</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sound-bites-staffers-share-their-80602.aspx?link_page_rss=80602</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sound-bites-staffers-share-their-80602.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[What are your money-saving tips? No solution is too trivial if it saves you cash during these tough economic times. 
 
Fernanda Valentino, executive assistant, Health Sciences Development
Even pre-recession, I realized that the amount of money... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=115495" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:24:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Lee E. Ohanian and Harold L. Cole</author><title>Misguided government policies prolonged Great Depression</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/misguided-government-policies-80595.aspx?link_page_rss=80595</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/misguided-government-policies-80595.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Lee E. Ohanian is professor of economics and director of the Ettinger Family Program in Macroeconomic Research at UCLA. This op-ed, recently published in the Wall Street Journal, was co-written by Ohanian and Harold L. Cole, a professor of economics... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=115488" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:08:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why it's wrong to accuse China of manipulating its currency</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-it-s-wrong-to-accuse-china-80329.aspx?link_page_rss=80329</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-it-s-wrong-to-accuse-china-80329.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Calla Wiemer is a visiting scholar at the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, a research associate at the National University of Singapore East Asian Institute and a consultant to the Asian Development Bank. This op-ed was recently published in the Wall... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=114524" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:25:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Now that Obama is president, can we declare 'Mission accomplished'?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/now-that-obama-is-president-can-79822.aspx?link_page_rss=79822</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/now-that-obama-is-president-can-79822.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Kimberlé Crenshaw, a professor of law, specializes in civil rights, constitutional law and critical race studies. This is an edited version of remarks she delivered at the 2009 Inaugural Peace Ball in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the inauguration... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=110432" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:16:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Lucy Blackmar</author><title>History and hope: an eyewitness account of the inauguration</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/making-history-at-obama-s-inauguration-78974.aspx?link_page_rss=78974</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/making-history-at-obama-s-inauguration-78974.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Lucy Blackmar is assistant vice provost for Undergraduate Education Initiatives in the College of Letters and Science.

When Barack Obama won the Iowa primary last January, I hurried home from campus in time to catch his victory speech. At that moment,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=107590" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:20:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Verbatim – Bush legacy, Chinese presidential preferences, sacking employees, history professors, expensive education</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-bush-legacy-chinese-presidential-78633.aspx?link_page_rss=78633</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-bush-legacy-chinese-presidential-78633.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty are quoted in the media on a wide range of subjects. Here's a recent selection. 
 
“Bush came in with one agenda and left with another.” 
 
— Frank Higbie, associate professor of history, quoted in a Jan. 15 Fox News online... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=107213" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:10:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Gabriel Piterberg</author><title>The death of Israel’s ‘shooting and crying’ soldier</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-death-of-israel-s-shooting-78631.aspx?link_page_rss=78631</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-death-of-israel-s-shooting-78631.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Gabriel Piterberg is a professor of history and the author, most recently, of “The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel, London and New York.” This is a longer version of a comment that recently appeared in the London Review... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=107139" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:53:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sound Bites: What should President Obama do first?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sound-bites-what-should-president-78593.aspx?link_page_rss=78593</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sound-bites-what-should-president-78593.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Cynthia Cordova, assistant to the dean, Graduate School of Education &amp; Information Studies 
I would like President Obama to continue down the road of change and equality for all by giving gay and lesbians equal rights, starting with repealing the... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=107133" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:59:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Daniel J.B. Mitchell</author><title>How to make Detroit productive after its bailout</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-its-bailout-how-to-make-78373.aspx?link_page_rss=78373</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/after-its-bailout-how-to-make-78373.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus of the Anderson Graduate School of Management, and the School of Public Affairs.
 
Vast sums have been given to various enterprises of late, especially in the financial sector, to avoid bankruptcy. While... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=105286" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:25:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Gene D. Block</author><title>Don't discriminate against undocumented students</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/don-t-discriminate-against-undocumented-78361.aspx?link_page_rss=78361</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/don-t-discriminate-against-undocumented-78361.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

Chancellor Gene D. Block responds in a letter to the editor published Jan. 12 in the Los Angeles Times to a Jan. 5 story about the California Supreme Court’s decision to review a state law granting in-state tuition to... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=104862" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:25:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Richard J. Jackson</author><title>What kind of security should we trust?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/what-kind-of-security-should-we-78060.aspx?link_page_rss=78060</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/what-kind-of-security-should-we-78060.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Richard J. Jackson is a professor at the School of Public Health. A former director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he led a CDC effort to establish the U.S. National Pharmaceutical Stockpile to prepare for terrorism and other disasters,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=104419" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:42:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Roger Farmer</author><title>Thwarting the Great Depression of 2009</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/thwarting-the-great-depression-77431.aspx?link_page_rss=77431</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/thwarting-the-great-depression-77431.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Roger Farmer, a professor and vice chair for graduate studies in the economics department, is the author of two forthcoming books: “Expectations, Employment and Prices” and “How the Economy Works and How to Fix It When It Doesn’t.” This article recently... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=102265" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:55:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Verbatim — taxes, humanity, gifts, Facebook and extreme weather</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-jan-2009-77411.aspx?link_page_rss=77411</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/verbatim-jan-2009-77411.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[UCLA faculty are quoted in the media on a wide range of subjects. Starting this month, UCLA Today will regularly feature some of the most noteworthy media citations credited to our faculty. Here’s our first collection:
 
“The court may just say,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=102258" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:40:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mark Yudof</author><title>California needs to invest heavily in human capital</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/california-needs-to-invest-heavily-77406.aspx?link_page_rss=77406</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/california-needs-to-invest-heavily-77406.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Mark Yudof is president of the University of California.
 
I'm a newcomer to California. I've been here seven months now. But throughout my life, whether I was in Pennsylvania, Minnesota or Texas, the state of California always held a special... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=102154" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:23:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jack Rothman</author><title>Cabinet picks show Obama is pragmatic and his own man</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/cabinet-picks-show-obama-is-pragmatic-75706.aspx?link_page_rss=75706</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/cabinet-picks-show-obama-is-pragmatic-75706.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Rothman is a professor emeritus in the School of Public Affairs. 
 
Progressives are in a state over Obama’s cabinet appointments. Cries of “betrayal,” “sellout” and “Clintonian copycat” fill the air. I’m convinced we will have to wait awhile... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=96126" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:29:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sound Bites: With falling gas prices, have you now embraced the pump you previously dumped?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sound-bites-with-falling-gas-prices-75672.aspx?link_page_rss=75672</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sound-bites-with-falling-gas-prices-75672.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
Shannon Devaney, assistant to medical director, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital 
I have kept my conservation habits and even in a few weeks have seen the savings grow, even though my commute to work from Burbank hasn’t really changed. In... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=94777" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:29:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Darnell Hunt</author><title>Does Obama’s victory signal the dawn of post-race politics?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/does-obama-s-victory-signal-the-72101.aspx?link_page_rss=72101</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/does-obama-s-victory-signal-the-72101.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Darnell Hunt, a professor of sociology, is the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.



 
November 2008 will surely go down in history as the month in which America’s greatest political earthquake occurred. I... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=86760" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:00:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sound Bites: Is it a good idea for the government to bail out the U.S. auto industry?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sound-bites-is-it-a-good-idea-72057.aspx?link_page_rss=72057</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/sound-bites-is-it-a-good-idea-72057.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Saly Heng, 2nd-year civil engineering student
Yes – if people buy more American cars instead of Japanese ones. That will help the auto industry survive. But it all depends on how the bailout money is used. Ultimately, the auto industry must be willing... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=86349" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:31:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Katherine V.W. Stone</author><title>The deeper roots of the mortgage crisis: employment instability</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-roots-of-the-mortgage-crisis-71884.aspx?link_page_rss=71884</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/the-roots-of-the-mortgage-crisis-71884.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Katherine V.W. Stone is a professor of law. A specialist in labor and employment law, she is the author of the award-winning book, “From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace” (Cambridge University Press, 2004).



The... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=83719" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:18:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Calla Wiemer</author><title>China’s economic stimulus is good news for global markets</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/china-s-economic-stimulus-is-good-71857.aspx?link_page_rss=71857</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/china-s-economic-stimulus-is-good-71857.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Calla Wiemer is a visiting scholar at the Center for Chinese Studies. This op-ed was recently published in the Wall Street Journal Asia. 


Global markets have cheered the stimulus plan Beijing announced Nov. 9, and with good reason. At $586 billion,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=83457" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:41:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Jennifer Price</author><title>My brother was murdered; Proposition 9 can't change that</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/prop-9-is-unjust-70917.aspx?link_page_rss=70917</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/prop-9-is-unjust-70917.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Jenny Price is a research scholar at UCLA's Center for the Study of Women.



Amid a bumper crop of misguided propositions on Tuesday's ballot, Proposition 9 has inspired only minimal outrage. That's the Victims' Bill of Rights Act of 2008, and who,... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=78760" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:07:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Gary Orfield</author><title>Dishing dirt in the presidential campaign</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/Dishing-dirt-presidential-campaign.aspx?link_page_rss=70911</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/Dishing-dirt-presidential-campaign.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Gary Orfield is professor of education and co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA.


The walk to the White House isn't a primrose path. Your opponents do not give up their dream of occupying the most powerful office... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=77902" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:06:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Patricia Gándara</author><title>Why taxing millionaires and billionaires is fair</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-taxing-millionaires-and-billionaires-69198.aspx?link_page_rss=69198</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/why-taxing-millionaires-and-billionaires-69198.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
I note with consternation and some degree of frustration with our education system that the Republican candidates are evidently able to frighten (or at least put off) voters by using the term &quot;distributing wealth&quot; in reference to Senator Obama's proposed... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=74076" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:34:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Randall Crane</author><title>Presidential campaign ignores problems facing cities</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/081015_problem_cities_russell-crane.aspx?link_page_rss=68914</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/081015_problem_cities_russell-crane.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? Cities. That’s what I’ll tell the presidential candidates when they call for career advice any day now. Cities. 

Because the downtowns and suburbs of cities, where the supermajority... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=72070" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Sanford Jacoby</author><title>GM: What led to the downfall of a corporate giant ?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/081015_gm-downfall_sanford-jacoby.aspx?link_page_rss=68915</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/081015_gm-downfall_sanford-jacoby.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
The news out of Detroit is grim, especially for General Motors Corp. A $15.5 billion quarterly loss. Toyota on track to beat it in global sales. The end to its three-quarter-century dominance of the world auto market. 
Much contributed to GM's woes:... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=72060" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The ripple effect of the U.S. economic crisis</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/081015_economic-crisis_layoff_workers_research.aspx?link_page_rss=68916</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/081015_economic-crisis_layoff_workers_research.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
BY JENNIE BRAND
Amid this week’s financial crisis, I am concerned about the long-term consequences for not only businesses and workers, but for communities. My recent research finds that even a single involuntary job displacement has a lasting impact... <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=72071" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Qualified' vs. 'experienced' in the presidential race</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/081008_mark-sawyer-election-blog.aspx?link_page_rss=68917</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/081008_mark-sawyer-election-blog.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=72216" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nice swing – but can you spell it?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080930_voices_kyeyoung-park.aspx?link_page_rss=68918</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080930_voices_kyeyoung-park.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=72231" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Mike Rose</author><title>Politicians campaigning for votes underestimate   blue-collar, service workers</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080923_politicians-underestimate_mike-rose.aspx?link_page_rss=64939</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080923_politicians-underestimate_mike-rose.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71360" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to restructure the U.S. financial sector after the Wall Street crisis</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080916_wall-street_straszheim.aspx?link_page_rss=64940</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080916_wall-street_straszheim.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71361" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>UCLA’s admissions policy corrects a grave imbalance</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080916_darnell-hunt_holistic-review.aspx?link_page_rss=64941</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080916_darnell-hunt_holistic-review.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71362" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sound Bites</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080908_sound-bites.aspx?link_page_rss=64942</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080908_sound-bites.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71363" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dodgy visitor settles in for summer, outfoxing us all</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080829_coyote_panosian_los-angeles.aspx?link_page_rss=64943</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080829_coyote_panosian_los-angeles.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71364" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sound Bites</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080812_sound-bites.aspx?link_page_rss=64944</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080812_sound-bites.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71365" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Russell Jaco</author><title>Why are the great masters of Western thought being expelled from their disciplines?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080812_jacoby_great-masters.aspx?link_page_rss=64945</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080812_jacoby_great-masters.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71366" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The virtues of living near the heart of UCLA</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080812.aspx?link_page_rss=64946</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080812.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71367" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sustainability 101: the fertility factor</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080808_population_zuckerman.aspx?link_page_rss=64947</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080808_population_zuckerman.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71368" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The world is looking to Obama — and America</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080715_anna_spain_obama.aspx?link_page_rss=64948</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080715_anna_spain_obama.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71369" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Social attitudes toward leprosy still in the biblical age</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080702_panosian_leprosy.aspx?link_page_rss=64949</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080702_panosian_leprosy.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71370" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Temporary tax hike can resolve state budget woes</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080624_taxes-vs-budget.aspx?link_page_rss=64950</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080624_taxes-vs-budget.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71371" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sound Bites</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080624_soundbites.aspx?link_page_rss=64951</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080624_soundbites.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71372" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Archaeologists hope to reach accord in Mideast</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080624_archaeology_peace.aspx?link_page_rss=64952</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080624_archaeology_peace.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71373" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>China drew the right lessons from Tiananmen Square</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080610_straszheim-donald.aspx?link_page_rss=64953</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080610_straszheim-donald.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71374" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><author>Cynthia Lee</author><title>Mark Yudof on policy, priorities and plans</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080522_YudofQandA.aspx?link_page_rss=64954</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080522_YudofQandA.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71375" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sound Bites: What's your favorite place on campus, and why?</title><link>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080520_sound-bites.aspx?link_page_rss=64955</link><guid>http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080520_sound-bites.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://today.ucla.edu/rss.ashx?id=71376" height="1" width="1" />]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>