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95-507: (Redirected from Expendables ) The Expendables may refer to: Films [ edit ] The Expendables (1962 film), a made-for-TV film starring Mike Connors The Expendables (1989 film) , by Cirio H. Santiago The Expendables (2000 film) , a made-for-TV film starring Brett Cullen The Expendables (franchise) , an American ensemble action film series co-written and developed by Sylvester Stallone The Expendables (2010 film) ,

190-479: A "good all-American name." Connors later stated he hated the name "from day one" and considered not using his real name the only big regret of his career. After getting the starring role in Tightrope! , Connors wanted to be credited as Ohanian, but Columbia Pictures told him that he had already done too much work as Connors, though he was allowed to change his first name to Mike. Connors's film career started in

285-556: A German villager played by Alec Guinness . Connors played the card sharp in the remake of Stagecoach (1966). Connors was strongly considered to play Matt Helm in The Silencers (1966), but that role had eventually gone to Dean Martin . However, his audition had impressed Columbia Pictures, so Connors was instead cast in the similar James Bond spoof film Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966). Connors himself performed

380-545: A branch of the UC system. On June 1, 2016, two men were killed in a murder-suicide at an engineering building in the university. School officials put the campus on lockdown as Los Angeles Police Department officers, including SWAT , cleared the campus. In February 2022, Matthew Harris, a former lecturer and postdoctoral fellow at UCLA, was arrested after allegedly making numerous threats of violence against students and faculty members of UCLA's Philosophy Department. In 2018,

475-439: A cross-promotion episode of her Here's Lucy series in 1971. The episode, which opened Lucy's fourth season, is titled "Lucy and Mannix are Held Hostage". This was notable as the first episode shot at Universal Studios, after Ball ceased producing her program at Paramount Studios. Mannix remained a hit show through its final season. The show was taken off the air due to a dispute between CBS and Paramount. Paramount had sold

570-501: A doctor from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center revealing, “One patient had a heart injury from the severity of the hits they sustained to the chest, while another would require surgery because of the damage done to part of a bone in their hand.” Yet another student “was left with stitches on his forehead and 14 staples in the back of his head.” The next day, UC administration sent a representative into

665-414: A large Los Angeles detective agency run by his superior Lew Wickersham ( Joseph Campanella ). From the second season onward, Mannix opened his own detective agency and is assisted by his secretary Peggy Fair ( Gail Fisher ). Mannix was originally produced by Desilu Productions (later absorbed by Paramount Television ). Then-president Lucille Ball pushed for CBS to keep the show on the air by removing

760-402: A plan to ensure Jewish students have equal access to campus” as a result of the lawsuit. The new UCLA campus in 1929 had four buildings: Royce Hall and Haines Hall on the north, and Powell Library and Kinsey Hall (now called Renee And David Kaplan Hall) on the south. The Janss Steps were the original 87-step entrance to the university that lead to the quad of these four buildings. Today,

855-541: A series of system overhauls and modifications, and in 1959, was named Dean of the School of Library Service. More libraries were added as previous ones filled. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), UCLA supplies the most undergraduate applicants to U.S. medical schools among all American universities. In 2015, UCLA supplied 961 medical school applicants, followed by UC Berkeley with 819 and

950-507: A son, Matthew Gunnar Ohanian, and a daughter, Dana Lee Connors. Matthew was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 15. Matthew predeceased his father, dying of heart failure in 2007. Through his daughter Dana, he had one granddaughter. After his son's diagnosis, Connors became active in charitable organizations for patients diagnosed with mental disorders. He was a spokesperson for the National Alliance on Mental Illness . In 1998,

1045-835: A southern branch of the California State Normal School (now San José State University) in downtown Los Angeles to train teachers for the growing population of Southern California . The Los Angeles branch of the California State Normal School opened on August 29, 1882, on what is now the site of the Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library system. The facility included a demonstration school where teachers-in-training could practice their techniques with children. That elementary school would become

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1140-485: A student-led community coalition known as "Westwood Forward" successfully led an effort to break UCLA and Westwood Village away from the existing Westwood Neighborhood Council and form a new North Westwood Neighborhood Council, with over 2,000 out of 3,521 stakeholders voting in favor of the split. Westwood Forward's campaign focused on making housing more affordable and encouraging nightlife in Westwood by opposing many of

1235-480: A tabletop role-playing game Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Expendables . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Expendables&oldid=1257185680 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1330-507: Is need-blind for domestic applicants. Enrolled freshman for Fall 2019 had an unweighted GPA of 3.90, an SAT interquartile range of 1280–1510, and an ACT interquartile range of 27–34. The SAT interquartile ranges were 640–740 for reading/writing and 640–790 for math. Among the admitted freshman applicants for the Fall 2019 term, 43.1% chose to enroll at UCLA. UCLA's freshman admission rate varies drastically across colleges. For Fall 2016,

1425-591: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mike Connors Connors was born Krekor Ohanian Jr. ( Armenian : կրեկոր ոհանիան ) on August 15, 1925, in Fresno, California , to Armenian parents Krekor and Alice ( née Surabian) Ohanian. His father had escaped the Armenian genocide . They married in 1915 and had six children: Paul I (died in childhood), Paul II, Dorothy M., Arpesri A., Krekor, and Eugene. His father

1520-618: The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) in 2017. In 2017, the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranked the university 15th in the world based on quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, publications, influence, citations, broad impact, and patents. The 2017 U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Rankings report ranked UCLA 10th in the world. The CWTS Leiden ranking of universities based on scientific impact for 2017 ranks UCLA 14th in

1615-620: The Bruins in the Big Ten Conference . They won 123 NCAA team championships while in the Pac-12 Conference , second only to Stanford University 's 128 team titles. 410 Bruins have made Olympic teams, winning 270 Olympic medals : 136 gold , 71 silver and 63 bronze . UCLA has been represented in every Olympics since the university's founding (except in 1924 ) and has had a gold medalist in every Olympics in which

1710-693: The Center for Measuring University Performance ranks UCLA 11th in power, 12th in resources, faculty, and education, 14th in resources and education and 9th in education. The 2015 Princeton Review College Hopes & Worries Survey ranked UCLA as the No. 5 "Dream College" among students and the No. 10 "Dream College" among parents. The National Science Foundation ranked UCLA 6th among American universities for research and development expenditures in 2021 with $ 1.45 billion. In 2017 The New York Times ranked UCLA 1st for economic upward-mobility among 65 "elite" colleges in

1805-619: The Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden . He was the first individual of non-European background and the first UCLA alumnus to be honored with the Prize. The Hannah Carter Japanese Garden is located a mile north of campus, in the community of Bel Air . The garden was designed by landscape architect Nagao Sakurai of Tokyo and garden designer Kazuo Nakamura of Kyoto in 1959. The garden was donated to UCLA by former UC regent and UCLA alumnus Edward W. Carter and his wife Hannah Carter in 1964 with

1900-632: The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Drama . He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award six times from 1970 to 1975 and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times from 1970 to 1973. When discussing the success of the series in an interview, Connors stated: "The show itself started a whole new era of detective shows, because this wasn't

1995-659: The Israel–Hamas war . On April 28, clashes occurred between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters as Stand With Us rallied on the campus, in a protest organised by the Israeli American Council . As part of the pro-Palestinian protests, students set up encampments on UCLA grounds. The university provided the encampment with private security and metal barricades “to prevent violent confrontations between... protesters.” The pro-Palestinian protestors did not allow students who refused to denounce Zionism into

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2090-707: The National Academy of Sciences , 17 to the American Philosophical Society , 32 to the National Academy of Engineering , 42 to the National Academy of Medicine , 10 to the National Academy of Inventors , and 167 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In March 1881, at the request of state senator Reginaldo Francisco del Valle , the California State Legislature authorized the creation of

2185-653: The School of Law 15th among American law schools. In 2015, financial community website QuantNet ranked the Anderson School of Management 's Master of Financial Engineering program 12th among North American financial engineering programs. The U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs report for 2016 ranked the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) 1st among online graduate engineering programs. Departments ranked in

2280-700: The U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools report ranked the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSEIS) 3rd, the Anderson School of Management 18th, the David Geffen School of Medicine tied for 12th for Primary Care and 21st for Research, the School of Law 14th, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) 16th, the Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health 10th, and

2375-786: The UC Irvine College of Medicine 's Brain Imaging Center Committee awarded Connors the Silver Ribbon Award for his contributions. Connors made a public service announcement for the Armenian Eye Care Project. Connors was a Republican . He endorsed Ronald Reagan for President in 1980 and 1984 and endorsed George Deukmejian for Governor of California in 1982 and 1986 . Connors died in Tarzana, California , at

2470-730: The United States Navy ; Sheriff of Cochise , a Western series; Whirlybirds , an aviation adventure series; and Rescue 8 , based on stories of the Los Angeles County Fire Department . An episode of Studio 57 starring Connors and titled "Getaway Car" was proposed as a pilot for a series about the CHP to be called Motorcycle Cop . Connors starred as an undercover police officer who infiltrated organized crime in Tightrope! (1959–1960). Despite

2565-481: The University of Florida with 802. Among first-time medical school applicants who received their bachelor's degree from UCLA in 2014, 51% were admitted to at least one U.S. medical school. U.S. News & World Report rates UCLA "Most Selective" and The Princeton Review rates its admissions selectivity of 98 out of 99. 149,815 prospective freshmen applied for Fall 2021, the most of any four-year university in

2660-552: The Anderson School of Management 11th in the United States. The 2014 Business Insider ranking of the world's best business schools ranks the Anderson School of Management 20th in the world. The 2014 Eduniversal Business Schools Ranking ranks the Anderson School of Management 15th in the United States. In 2015, career website Vault ranked the Anderson School of Management 16th among American business schools, and

2755-455: The April 30 attack. In June 2024, three Jewish students filed a lawsuit against UCLA, alleging “that the university played a role in preventing them from accessing the campus freely during protests, when they were blocked from entering the pro-Palestinian encampment erected by protesters.” The students were represented by Becket Law . In July 2024, a federal judge ordered that UCLA must “create

2850-704: The Board of Regents authorized a fourth year of instruction and transformed the Junior College into the College of Letters and Science, which awarded its first bachelor's degrees in June 1925. Under UC President William Wallace Campbell , 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 announced

2945-573: The College of Letters and Science had an admission rate of 21.2%, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) had an admission rate of 12.4%, the Herb Alpert School of Music had an admission rate of 23.5%, the School of the Arts and Architecture had an admission rate of 10.3%, the School of Nursing had an admission rate of 2.2%, and the School of Theater, Film and Television had an admission rate of 4.4%. One of

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3040-626: The Cougar" on the NBC modern Western series, Redigo , starring Richard Egan . In 1964, Connors appeared in a pinch-hit role for Raymond Burr as attorney Joe Kelly in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Bullied Bowler". Connors was invited to take on a lead role in the series on an ongoing basis, but the producers had actually wanted to pressure Burr into resigning his contract with

3135-422: The David Geffen School of Medicine admitted 2.9% of its applicants, making it the 8th most selective U.S. medical school. The School of Law had a median undergraduate GPA of 3.82 and median Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score of 170 for the enrolled class of 2024. The Anderson School of Management had a middle-80% GPA range of 3.1–3.8 and an average Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) score of 711 for

3230-842: The Janss Steps are named. The campus in Westwood opened to students in 1929. The original four buildings were the College Library (now Powell Library ), Royce Hall , the Physics-Biology Building (which became the Humanities Building and is now the Renee and David Kaplan Hall), and the Chemistry Building (now Haines Hall), arrayed around a quadrangular courtyard on the 400 acre (1.6 km ) campus. The first undergraduate classes on

3325-502: The Junior College. The Southern Branch campus opened on September 15 of that year, offering two-year undergraduate programs to 250 Junior College students and 1,250 students in the Teachers College. While University of Southern California students criticized the "branch" as a mere "twig", Southern Californians continued to fight Northern Californians for the right to three and then four years of instruction. In December 1923,

3420-610: The Normal School, began to lobby the State Legislature to enable the school to become the second University of California campus, after UC Berkeley . They met resistance from UC Berkeley alumni, Northern California members of the state legislature and then-UC President Benjamin Ide Wheeler , who were all vigorously opposed to the idea of a southern campus. However, David Prescott Barrows , the new President of

3515-445: The School of Nursing 16th. The QS Global 200 MBA Rankings report for 2015 ranks the Anderson School of Management 9th among North American business schools. The 2014 Economist ranking of Full-time MBA programs ranks the Anderson School of Management 13th in the world. The 2014 Financial Times ranking of MBA programs ranks the Anderson School 26th in the world. The 2014 Bloomberg Businessweek ranking of Full-time MBA programs ranks

3610-455: The U.S. has participated since 1932. As of March 2024 , 16 Nobel laureates , 11 Rhodes scholars , two Turing Award winners, two Chief Scientists of the U.S. Air Force , one Pritzker prize winner, 7 Pulitzer prize winners, two U.S. Poet laureates , one Gauss prize winner, and one Fields Medalist have been affiliated with it as faculty, researchers and alumni. As of March 2024 , 59 associated faculty members have been elected to

3705-610: The UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine uses two Los Angeles County public hospitals as teaching hospitals— Harbor–UCLA Medical Center and Olive View–UCLA Medical Center —as well as the largest private nonprofit hospital on the west coast, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center . The Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center is also a major teaching and training site for the university. The UCLA Medical Center made history in 1981 when Assistant Professor Michael Gottlieb first diagnosed AIDS . UCLA medical researchers also pioneered

3800-746: The United States and 1st in the West. UCLA Medical Center was ranked within the top 20 in the United States for 15 out of 16 medical specialty areas examined. UCLA is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and had $ 1.32 billion in research expenditures in 2018. The 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges report ranked UCLA first among public universities and tied for 15th among national universities. The Washington Monthly ranked UCLA 22nd among national universities in 2021, with criteria based on research, community service, and social mobility. The Money Magazine Best Colleges ranking for 2015 ranked UCLA 26th in

3895-461: The United States, based on educational quality, affordability and alumni earnings. In 2014, The Daily Beast ' s Best Colleges report ranked UCLA 10th in the country. The Kiplinger Best College Values report for 2015 ranked UCLA 6th for value among American public universities. The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education ranked UCLA 26th among national universities in 2016. The 2013 Top American Research Universities report by

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3990-864: The United States. Admission rates vary according to the residency of applicants. For Fall 2019, California residents had an admission rate of 12.0%, while out-of-state U.S. residents had an admission rate of 16.4% and internationals had an admission rate of 8.4%. UCLA's overall freshman admit rate for the Fall 2019 term was 12.3%. As of 2020, the basis for selection at UCLA includes several academic and nonacademic factors. Those considered "very important" are all academic; they are rigor of secondary school record, academic GPA , standardized test scores, and application essay(s). Those considered "important" are talent/ability, character/personal qualities, volunteer work, work experience, and extracurricular activities. Factors that are not considered at all include class rank, interviews, alumni relation, and racial/ethnic status. UCLA

4085-578: The United States. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2017–2018 ranks UCLA 15th in the world for academics, No.1 US Public University for academics, and 13th in the world for reputation. In 2020, it ranked 16th among the universities around the world by SCImago Institutions Rankings . UCLA was ranked 33rd in the QS World University Rankings in 2017 and 12th in the world (10th in North America) by

4180-693: The University of California in 1919, did not share Wheeler's objections. On May 23, 1919, the Southern Californians' efforts were rewarded when Governor William D. Stephens signed Assembly Bill 626 into law, which acquired the land and buildings and transformed the Los Angeles Normal School into the Southern Branch of the University of California . The same legislation added its general undergraduate program,

4275-672: The World Ended (1955), Swamp Women (1956), and The Oklahoma Woman (1956). Connors starred in and was the executive producer of Flesh and the Spur (1956). He raised $ 117,000 for the film. In 1958, Connors appeared in the title role of the episode "Simon Pitt", the series finale of the NBC Western Jefferson Drum , starring Jeff Richards as a frontier newspaper editor. He appeared in another NBC Western series, The Californians . That same year, Connors

4370-631: The age of 91 on January 26, 2017, a week after being diagnosed with leukemia . University of California at Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA ) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles , California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School which later evolved into San José State University . The branch

4465-453: The attack began, but refused to come until hours after the first firework went off, telling multiple 911 callers: “You can’t continue calling unless you have an emergency.” This attack continued for four more hours before police arrived to disperse the crowd of counter-protestors at around 3:00 AM, making no arrests. Over 20 students had to be hospitalized due to injuries inflicted by counter-protesters. Some of these injuries were severe, with

4560-515: The campus includes 163 buildings across 419 acres (1.7 km ) in the western part of Los Angeles , north of the Westwood shopping district and just south of Sunset Boulevard . In terms of acreage, it is the second-smallest of the ten UC campuses. The Channel Islands are visible from the UCLA campus. The first buildings were designed by the local firm Allison & Allison . The Romanesque Revival style of these first four structures remained

4655-542: The campus, UCLA has instated a policy to regulate filming and professional photography. "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." College and schools of

4750-522: The early sitcoms , Hey, Jeannie! and The People's Choice and in two Rod Cameron syndicated crime dramas , City Detective and the Western-themed State Trooper , and played the villain in the first episode filmed (but second one aired) of ABC's smash hit Maverick , opposite James Garner in 1957. Connors had roles in several of the earliest films Roger Corman directed: Five Guns West (1955), The Day

4845-399: The early 1950s, when he made his acting debut in a supporting role opposite Joan Crawford and Jack Palance in the thriller Sudden Fear (1952). He had initially been rejected for an audition by producer Joseph Kaufman due to his lack of experience, but after sneaking into Republic Pictures and meeting director David Miller , Connors was given a chance to read the script and was offered

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4940-591: The encampment to attempt negotiations, but refused to concede to any of the protestor’s demands—including the crucial demand for amnesty—and thus, this conversation proved fruitless. On the night of May 1, police swept the Palestine Solidarity Encampment and arrested more than 200 pro-Palestinian student protestors. During the sweep, at least one student was shot in the head with a rubber bullet, requiring hospitalization. Several months later, two counterprotestors were arrested for their role in

5035-406: The encampment to be referred to as a “Jew Exclusion Zone” by some students on campus. However, many Jewish students, including those affiliated with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), were active within the encampment. UCLA did not prevent the misuse of their resources that were used to deny students who did not want to be involved in pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist protest access to Royce Quad. From

5130-466: The encampment. On April 30, violent clashes were reported on the UCLA campus between pro-Palestinian protesters and groups of counter-demonstrators supporting Israel. After engaging in sound/ music torture for several hours, counterprotestors began physically assaulting the students inside the encampment by throwing fireworks and wooden planks at them, pepper- and bear-spraying them, and beating them with planks and pipes. Police were called shortly after

5225-417: The encampment. As a safety measure, several days after the establishment of the encampment, students put into place a voucher system for entry whereby one could only enter the encampment if they knew someone already inside who could vouch that they would not incite violence or undermine the encampment's safety. This austerity measure, which also saw periods in which no one was let in (even with a voucher), caused

5320-439: The enrolled MBA class of 2024. The School of Dentistry had an average overall GPA of 3.65, an average science GPA of 3.6 and an average Dental Admissions Test (DAT) score of 22.8 for the enrolled class of 2025. The Graduate School of Nursing has an acceptance rate of 33% as of 2022 . For Fall 2020, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) had a graduate acceptance rate of 27%. The university has

5415-409: The establishment of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on April 25 to the night of April 30, many non-students mobilized counter-protests in support of Israel, which aimed to dismantle the encampment via intimidation and physical aggression. Over $ 50,000 was raised via GoFundMe to assist these efforts, enabling counterprotestors to purchase speakers and a Jumbotron, on which they played videos showcasing

5510-534: The events of October 7 on a loop in Royce Quad. During the nights, counter-protestors played an Israeli children’s song known to be used to torture Palestinian prisoners, overlaid with recordings of a baby’s cry, on repeat. Counter-protestors also placed or attempted to place biohazards in and around the encampment, including a backpack filled with mice. In the days immediately proceeding the April 30 attack, counter-protestors made multiple attempts to break into

5605-487: The first film in the series The Expendables 2 , the sequel to the 2010 film The Expendables 3 , the sequel to the 2012 film Expend4bles , the sequel to the 2014 film Other uses [ edit ] The Expendables Go to Hell , a comic/graphic novel based on the film franchise The Expendables (American band) The Expendables (New Zealand band) See also [ edit ] Expendable (disambiguation) Expendables (role-playing game) ,

5700-441: The first full-length features on the Armenian genocide . The documentary was nominated for two Emmys . In 1995, Connors narrated another Armenian documentary by Hagopian, Ararat Beckons . In 1976, Connors played Karl Ohanian in the television film The Killer Who Wouldn't Die . Producers and writers Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts , who were also producers for Mannix , wanted the character to have Connors' real last name. The film

5795-636: The global top ten according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for 2015 are Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy (10th). Academic field rankings in the global top ten according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2014–2015 include Arts & Humanities (10th), Clinical, Pre-clinical and Health (9th), Engineering and Technology (9th), Physical Sciences (9th), and Social Sciences (9th). Academic field rankings in

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5890-538: The global top ten according to the QS World University Rankings for 2015 are Arts & Humanities (10th) and Life Sciences and Medicine (10th). The Institute of International Education ranked UCLA the American university with the seventh-most international students in 2016 (behind NYU , USC , Arizona State , Columbia University , The University of Illinois , and Northeastern University ). In 2014, Business Insider ranked UCLA 5th in

5985-503: The global top ten by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for 2015 are Mathematics (8th) and Computer Science (9th). Departments ranked in the global top ten by the QS World University Rankings for 2020 are English Language & Literature (9th), Linguistics (10th), Modern Languages (7th), Medicine (7th), Psychology (6th), Mathematics (9th), Geography (5th), Communications & Media Studies (13th), Education (11th) and Sociology (7th). Academic field rankings in

6080-436: The high-tech computers and making Mannix an independent detective. This move enabled the show to become a long-running hit for the network. Connors performed his own stunts on the series. During the filming of the pilot episode, he broke his wrist and dislocated his shoulder. Joe Mannix was an Armenian-American, like Connors. He spoke Armenian in a number of episodes and often quoted Armenian proverbs. In 1970, Connors won

6175-663: The independent horror film Too Scared to Scream (1985). He played Colonel Harrison "Hack" Peters in the 1988 miniseries War and Remembrance . Connors hosted the 1989 series Crimes of the Century . He voiced the character Chipacles in the Disney animated series Hercules from 1998 to 1999. Connors' final appearance was in a 2007 Two and a Half Men episode, as a love interest of Evelyn Harper ( Holland Taylor ). Connors married Mary Lou Willey on September 10, 1949, when they were both UCLA students. They had two children,

6270-518: The life sciences and engineering research complexes. This continuous construction gives UCLA the nickname "Under Construction Like Always". One notable building on campus is named after African-American alumnus Ralph Bunche , who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an armistice agreement between the Jews and Arabs in Israel. The entrance of Bunche Hall features a bust of him overlooking

6365-510: The major issues is the decreased admission of African-Americans since the passage of Proposition 209 in 1996, prohibiting state governmental institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity, specifically in the areas of public employment, public contracting, and public education. UCLA responded by shifting to a holistic admissions process in Fall 2007, which evaluates applicants based on their opportunities in high school, personal hardships, and unusual circumstances at home. For Fall 2020,

6460-450: The most MBA graduate alumni who are entrepreneurs backed by venture capital. UCLA's library system has over nine million books and 70,000 serials in over twelve libraries and eleven other archives, reading rooms, and research centers. It is the United States' 12th largest library in number of volumes. The first library, University Library (presently Powell Library ), was founded in 1884. Lawrence Powell became librarian in 1944, and began

6555-594: The most applied-to university in the United States . The university is organized into the College of Letters and Science and twelve professional schools. Six of the schools offer undergraduate degree programs: Arts and Architecture , Engineering and Applied Science , Music , Nursing , Public Affairs , and Theater, Film and Television . Three others are graduate-level professional health science schools: Medicine , Dentistry , and Public Health . Its three remaining schools are Education & Information Studies , Management and Law . UCLA student-athletes compete as

6650-706: The national top ten by the 2016 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools report are Clinical Psychology (1st), Fine Arts (2nd), Psychology (2nd), Medical School: Primary Care (6th), Math (7th), History (9th), Sociology (9th), English (10th), Political Science (10th), and Public Health (10th). Departments ranked in the global top ten by the 2016 U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities report are Arts and Humanities (7th), Biology and Biochemistry (10th), Chemistry (6th), Clinical Medicine (10th), Materials Science (10th), Mathematics (7th), Neuroscience and Behavior (7th), Psychiatry/Psychology (3rd) and Social Sciences and Public Health (8th). Departments ranked in

6745-546: The new "Beverly Site" — just west of Beverly Hills — in 1925. After the athletic teams entered the Pacific Coast conference in 1926, the Southern Branch student council adopted the nickname "Bruins", a name offered by the student council at UC Berkeley. On February 1, 1927, the Regents renamed the Southern Branch the University of California at Los Angeles . In the same year, 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

6840-520: The new campus were held in 1929 with 5,500 students. UCLA was permitted to award the master's degree in 1933, and the doctorate in 1936, against continued resistance from UC Berkeley. During its first 32 years, UCLA was treated as an off-site department of the main campus in Berkeley. As such, its presiding officer was called a "provost." In 1951, UCLA was formally elevated to coequal status with UC Berkeley, and its presiding officer Raymond B. Allen

6935-631: The part. Connors was cast in the John Wayne film, Island in the Sky in which he played a crewman on one of the search-and-rescue planes. In 1956, he played an Amalekite herder in Cecil B. DeMille 's The Ten Commandments . Connors appeared in numerous television series, including the co-starring role in the 1955 episode "Tomas and the Widow" of the anthology series Frontier . He guest-starred on

7030-532: The predominant building style until the 1950s, when architect Welton Becket was hired to supervise the expansion of the campus over the next two decades. Romanesque Revival was chosen as an alternative to Collegiate Gothic to parallel the climate of Southern California to the warm, sunny weather of the Southern Mediterranean. Becket greatly streamlined its general appearance, adding several rows of minimalist , slab–shaped brick buildings to

7125-532: The present day UCLA Lab School . In 1887, the branch campus became independent and changed its name to Los Angeles State Normal School. In 1914, the school moved to a new campus on Vermont Avenue (now the site of Los Angeles City College ) in East Hollywood . In 1917, UC Regent Edward Augustus Dickson , the only regent representing the Southland at the time, and Ernest Carroll Moore , Director of

7220-407: The program would lose the suspense element, "Because the whole premise was this guy, all by himself, 'on a tightrope.' ... When he gets a sidekick, it loses the threat and the danger, and the whole premise is in the toilet." Later, he was cast in the episode "The Aerialist" of the anthology series, Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond . In 1963, he guest-starred as Jack Marson in the episode "Shadow of

7315-636: The restrictions on housing developments and restaurants the Westwood Neighborhood Council had promoted. In 2022, UCLA signed an agreement to partner with the Tongva for the caretaking and landscaping of various areas of the campus. This included land use for ceremonial events and educational workshops and outreach events. On April 25, 2024, an occupation protest began at UCLA to protest the administration's investments in Israel amid

7410-450: The rights to air Mannix reruns to rival network ABC without informing CBS. When CBS discovered the deal, the executives quickly decided to cancel Mannix to avoid losing viewership for new episodes to the reruns. He later reprised the role of Joe Mannix in a 1997 episode of Diagnosis: Murder and in the 2003 comedy film Nobody Knows Anything! He narrated J. Michael Hagopian 's 1975 documentary film The Forgotten Genocide , one of

7505-593: The series. In 1964, Connors had a role in the Jack Lemmon comedy Good Neighbor Sam and was the leading man to Susan Hayward and Bette Davis in Where Love Has Gone . He co-starred with Robert Redford in one of his earliest film roles, the World War II black comedy Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965), in which Connors and Redford played American soldiers taken prisoner by

7600-442: The show's popularity, it was canceled after only one season. Connors stated in an interview that the show's primary sponsor, J.B. Williams, refused CBS president James Aubrey 's request to move it to a later time slot on a different day. The sponsor dropped Tightrope! and underwrote another program on another network. Connors also did not agree with the suggested change to add a sidekick , to be played by Don Sullivan. He thought

7695-611: The southern half, the largest of these being the UCLA Medical Center . Architects such as A. Quincy Jones , William Pereira , and Paul Williams designed many subsequent structures on the campus during the mid-20th century. More recent additions include buildings designed by architects I.M. Pei , Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates , Richard Meier , Cesar Pelli , and Rafael Vinoly . To accommodate UCLA's rapidly growing student population, multiple construction and renovation projects are in progress, including expansions of

7790-531: The stipulation that it remains open to the public. After the garden was damaged by heavy rains in 1968, UCLA Professor of Art and Campus Architect Koichi Kawana took on the task of its reconstruction. The property was sold in 2016 and public access is no longer required. UCLA has attracted filmmakers for decades with its proximity to Hollywood . It was used to represent fictional Windsor College in Scream 2 (1997). In response to frequent requests for filming at

7885-570: The stuntwork of dangling from a rope ladder attached to a helicopter flying off the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro when the local stuntman refused to do it. Connors became best known for playing the private investigator Joe Mannix in the detective series Mannix . The series ran for eight seasons from 1967 to 1975. During the first season of the series, Joe Mannix worked for Intertect,

7980-573: The university - with the year of their founding - include: The David Geffen School of Medicine , School of Nursing , School of Dentistry and Fielding School of Public Health constitute the professional schools of health science. The UCLA Health System operates the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center , a hospital in Santa Monica and twelve primary care clinics throughout Los Angeles County . In addition,

8075-484: The use of positron emission tomography (PET) scanning to study brain function. Professor of Pharmacology Louis Ignarro was one of the recipients of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the signaling cascade of nitric oxide , one of the most important molecules in cardiopulmonary physiology. The U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals ranking for 2021 ranks UCLA Medical Center 3rd in

8170-410: The usual cynical private eye à la Humphrey Bogart . It was more a show about an all-round normal human being. The character of Joe Mannix could be taken advantage of by a pretty face, he could shed a tear on an emotional level, he was very close to his father and his family, so he was more a normal personality with normal behavior." Connors was able to work with his boss Lucille Ball on-screen during

8265-541: The war, he attended the University of California at Los Angeles on both a basketball scholarship and the G.I. Bill , where he played under coach John Wooden . Connors went to law school, where he studied to become an attorney, taking after his father. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. After a basketball game, coach Wilbur Johns introduced Connors to his friend, director William A. Wellman , who liked Connors' voice and expressive face while he

8360-402: The world for the number of alumni working at Google (behind Stanford , Berkeley , Carnegie Mellon , and MIT ). In 2015, Business Insider ranked UCLA 10th among American universities with the most students hired by Silicon Valley companies. In 2015, research firm PitchBook ranked UCLA 9th in the world for venture capital raised by undergraduate alumni, and 11th in the world for producing

8455-435: The world. The University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) conducted by Middle East Technical University for 2016–2017 ranked UCLA 12th in the world based on the quantity, quality and impact of research articles and citations. The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities for 2017 ranked UCLA 11th in the world based on the presence, impact, openness and excellence of its research publications. As of March 2021 ,

8550-510: Was an attorney and represented many Armenians who had little money and could not speak English. Connors spoke three languages: Armenian , English , and French . Connors was a cousin of French-Armenian singer Charles Aznavour . Connors was an avid basketball player in high school, nicknamed "Touch" by his teammates. During World War II , he served as an enlisted man in the United States Army Air Forces . After

8645-407: Was cast as Miles Borden, a corrupt US Army lieutenant bitter over his $ 54 monthly pay, on NBC's Wagon Train in the episode "The Dora Gray Story" with Linda Darnell in the title role. About this time, he also appeared on an episode of NBC's Western series Cimarron City . Other syndicated series in which he appeared were The Silent Service , based on true stories of the submarine section of

8740-510: Was intended to be the pilot for a new ABC series titled Ohanian , about an Armenian-American former homicide detective who is now a charter-boat skipper. However, the series was not picked up. Connors had roles in the thriller films Avalanche Express (1979) and Nightkill (1980). He starred as a bureau veteran who mentors a team of agents in Today's FBI (1981–1982). The series only lasted one season. Connors both starred in and produced

8835-416: Was playing basketball, and encouraged him to consider acting. He was considered for the role of Tarzan by casting director Ruth Burch, who found him an acting coach. After Connors became an actor, his agent Henry Willson thought the name "Ohanian" was too similar to the actor George O'Hanlon and gave him the stage name "Touch Connors" based on his basketball nickname. Willson considered "Connors" to be

8930-490: Was the first chief executive to be granted the title of chancellor. In November 1958, the "at" in UCLA's name was replaced with a comma, a symbol of its independence from Berkeley. The appointment of Franklin David Murphy to the position of chancellor in 1960 helped spark an era of tremendous growth of facilities and faculty honors. This era secured UCLA's position as a proper university in its own right and not simply

9025-522: Was transferred to the University of California to become the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919, making it the second-oldest of the ten-campus University of California system after the University of California, Berkeley . UCLA offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a range of disciplines, enrolling about 31,600 undergraduate and 14,300 graduate and professional students annually. It received 174,914 undergraduate applications for Fall 2022, including transfers, making it

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