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87-592: In March 1881, at the request of state senator Reginaldo Francisco del Valle , the California State Legislature authorized the creation of 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 . On March 14, 1881, Governor George C. Perkins signed the bill into state law . On March 24,

174-727: A State of Emergency and summoned the LAPD on campus; 74 arrests were made and 12 people reported injuries. This demonstration and many others at UC campuses throughout the state caused then-Governor Ronald Reagan to shut down the state's colleges and universities for the first time in California's history. ARPANET , the world's first electronic computer network, was deployed on the UCLA campus by student programmer Charley Kline , at 10:30 p.m, on October 29, 1969 from Boelter Hall 3420. Supervised by Prof. Leonard Kleinrock , Kline transmitted from

261-617: A Committee of Seventeen, which entertained proposals that ranged from Ventura County to San Diego. The group selected the Letts' Estate (later called the Beverly-Westwood site) as its recommendation to the Regents. On March 21, 1925, the Regents announced their selection of the so-called "Beverly Site"—an undeveloped 383-acre area just west of Beverly Hills —edging out the panoramic hills of the still-empty Palos Verdes Peninsula . As

348-696: A dispute over the leadership of the new African American Studies Center. Federal agents working under the FBI 's COINTELPRO program infiltrated both organizations and provoked the conflict between them. Later in 1969, the UC Regents fired Angela Davis , a radical feminist and lecturer in the Philosophy Department, for openly identifying as a member of the Communist Party USA . Outraged faculty threatened to withhold grades if Davis

435-614: A full "login". The first permanent ARPANET link was established on November 21, 1969, between the IMP at UCLA and the IMP at the Stanford Research Institute. By December 5, 1969, the entire four-node network was established. Turing Award laureate Vinton Cerf was a doctoral student in the computer science department under Kleinrock in the early 1970s and also worked on the ARPANET. He would later team with Bob Kahn in

522-482: A full professor in that department at UCLA. At 36, Young was the youngest-ever chief executive officer of a UC campus and the first graduate of UCLA to become chancellor of the campus. The year before Murphy resigned, student unrest against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War began to be felt at UCLA, when over 500 students, as part of a nationwide protest organized by Students for a Democratic Society , protested

609-617: A history of the Los Angeles State Normal School written twenty-five years later, "Mr. Del Valle became a target for the Workingman's Delegation of San Francisco, some members of which in the heat of the debate made use of sharp personalities." This bill established a branch normal school in Los Angeles; it was considered to be a branch of the original State Normal School at San Jose and was governed by

696-414: A letter from former Governor John G. Downey , dated February 22, 1879, encouraging him to "push for a Los Angeles location" for a new state normal school , which would specialize in teacher training. Del Valle introduced such a bill within two weeks, but after months of wrangling, this and other bills submitted by other assemblymen on behalf of their counties were either defeated, withdrawn or killed. In

783-466: A more modern tone, although elements of Alison's architecture, the brick walls, tile roofs, and stone trim, were retained throughout. In conjunction with the building boom, the UCLA Medical and Law Schools were established in 1946 and 1947, respectively. The department of Theater Arts was also established in 1947. By 1950, the number of veterans began to decline, but total student enrollment reached

870-493: A name offered by the student council at Berkeley. That same year, the Regents renamed the school itself the "University of California at Los Angeles." (The word "at" was officially replaced by a comma in 1958.) 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 appointed

957-611: A new high of 14,318 students. With the rise of the anti-Communist Red Scare in the late 1940s, the UC system became suspected of harboring un-American activities. The Regents on March 25, 1949 had adopted a policy which required all faculty and staff to swear a loyalty oath that disavowed membership in the Communist Party. At a special session of the UC Academic Senate's Northern Section, Edward C. Tolman argued that

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1044-681: A quadrangular courtyard. George W. Kelham of San Francisco was the supervising architect, assisted by David Allison of the Los Angeles firm Allison & Allison . Allison, who was also the designer of the Vermont Avenue campus, envisioned the Romanesque style of the Westwood campus. The neighboring communities of Westwood Village and Bel Air were developed alongside the university. (The original Vermont campus became home to Los Angeles City College .) The first undergraduate classes on

1131-624: A radical reputation. In 1934, Provost Ernest Moore declared UCLA "the worst hotbed of communism in the U.S", and suspended five members of the ASUCLA student government for allegedly "using their offices to assist the revolutionary activities of the National Student League, a Communist organization which has bedeviled the University for some months." The incident leading to this action was the student government's negotiation of

1218-595: A request by Celeste Strack , student member of the NSL, to hold a student forum on issues pertaining to the upcoming gubernatorial contest , after Moore had already refused her and requested ASCULA not to entertain her request. Over 3,000 students gathered to protest in Royce Quad, and a campus police officer, attempting to silence the speakers, was thrown into some bushes. The crowd dispersed before any arrests were made, and University President Robert Sproul later reinstated

1305-515: A research institution coincided with its upgrade to co-equal status with UC Berkeley. Before 1951, even with its dramatic growth, it was reckoned as an off-site department of the main campus in Berkeley, and it was headed by a provost who reported to Berkeley's president. In 1951, however, the Regents transferred day-to-day leadership responsibilities for the Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses to chancellors . Both chancellors now reported as equals to

1392-476: A row, the scheduled commencement keynote speaker had canceled the engagement. Bill Clinton canceled in 2008 for not wanting to cross a picket line. Actor and alumnus James Franco canceled in 2009 because of his filming scheduling conflicts. Rock band Linkin Park 's Brad Delson accepted the last minute invitation to speak at the 2009 commencement ceremony. Mayim Bialik cancelled in 2016 for not wanting to cross

1479-521: A senator, del Valle fought to establish the new Los Angeles institution as a school in its own right, with a separate board of trustees and separate governance from the statewide institution, which was headquartered in San Jose and dominated by Northern California members. Although he left the Senate in 1887, his proposal was eventually put into law, and del Valle was noted as the "intellectual author" of

1566-637: A sister, Josefa del Valle Forster. Requiem mass was in the Old Plaza Church , and interment was in Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles . A Democrat , del Valle was a California State Assemblyman from 1880 to 1883. In that position, he unsuccessfully opposed a bill that required all state offices to keep their records only in English , instead of in both Spanish and English moving forward. While an Assemblyman, del Valle received

1653-596: A way to be patriotic and relieve scarcity. A service banner hung for 4 years in Kerckhoff Hall. By the end of the war on Tuesday, August 15, 1945, it held 5,702 stars, of which 151 were gold for the Bruins who lost their lives. (These totals, however, were inaccurate. Actual totals were higher.) Before the war ended, veteran students on the G.I. Bill began to trickle in at UCLA. President Sproul created an Office of Veteran's Affairs at UCLA in 1945, which helped ease

1740-411: Is the parliamentarian par excellence in the upper House. Since his school days at Santa Clara College, he is generally accredited with having adopted Cushing's unabridged , so to say, as his Bible. ... He never hesitates for an instant, and is even a little arrogant in the promptness with which he decides every point and rushes the work along. No one ever thinks of appealing from his decisions . As

1827-598: Is the largest academic unit at UCLA and the largest in the entire UC system. The bulk of UCLA's student body belongs to the College, which includes 50 academic departments, 99 majors, 25,000 undergraduate students, 2,700 graduate students and 900 faculty members. Virtually all of the academic programs in the College are ranked very highly and 11 were ranked in the top ten nationally by the National Research Council. The College originated on May 23, 1919,

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1914-778: The Los Angeles Daily Times , and adopted the Caystiles' daughter, Helen. The new couple had another daughter, Lucretia del Valle , who married Henry F. Grady of San Francisco. Del Valle was a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club , La Junta Patriotica de Juárez, the Original Young Spanish Americans and the Club Cura Hidalgo. He died on September 20, 1938, leaving daughter Lucretia Grady and

2001-495: The Great Depression slowed down but did not halt UCLA's development. A Southern section of the UC faculty Academic Senate was voted on in 1931 and organized in 1932. In 1933, after intense lobbying by alumni, faculty, administration and community leaders, UCLA was permitted to award the master's degree , and in 1936, the doctorate , against continued resistance from Berkeley. The UCLA student body in those years gained

2088-483: The Korean War . After those surpluses ran out, further construction was financed on state bond issues. However, the state at that time would not finance student housing, and UCLA comprised 17,000 students with only Hershey Hall (originally constructed in 1930 as a 129-bed women's dorm) accommodating any students on campus. So the Regents floated a loan from the federal government to build Dykstra Hall and Sproul Hall on

2175-720: The Plaza in Los Angeles , the son of Ygnacio del Valle of Compostela, Jalisco, Mexico and Ysabel Varela , who was born in California. In 1861, the family moved to Rancho Camulos in today's Ventura and Los Angeles counties. A 2006 study of del Valle headed by David E. Hayes-Bautista reported that: "Young Reginaldo was tutored at home, becoming fluent in English and French as well as Spanish." He went to St. Vincent's College in Los Angeles for high school (1867–71) and, after graduating with honors , attended Santa Clara University , where he graduated in 1873. He read law with

2262-588: The San Fernando Mission and the mark El Camino Real with bells." In 1892 del Valle was a lecturer in parliamentary law in the newly opened Southern California College of Law, and later he "formed a number of law partnerships." UCLA College of Letters and Science The UCLA College of Letters and Science (or simply UCLA College ) is the arts and sciences college of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It encompasses

2349-522: The Times Mirror Company. Under his tenure, enrollment had increased to 29,000, $ 150,000,000 in new buildings were constructed, 1000 new faculty were hired, and UCLA's annual operating budget increased from $ 14,000,000 to $ 95,000,000. The Regents selected Murphy's right-hand man, Charles E. Young , as the next UCLA Chancellor. Young was a graduate of UC Riverside who had earned his doctorate in political science at UCLA and ultimately became

2436-516: The 1881 Assembly session, del Valle was nominated for the speakership but lost by three votes. On January 4, 1881, he introduced another bill to establish a branch normal school in Los Angeles, and, after parliamentary maneuvering, a similar bill that had already passed the State Senate was adopted in the Assembly and signed into law by Governor George C. Perkins . As a result, according to

2523-666: The Architecture building, Bunche Hall, and the Murphy Sculpture Garden were eventually built. The last Allison-designed building constructed was the Business and Economics building, which later became the Social Welfare building. In 1948, Walter Wurdeman and Welton Becket succeeded Allison as chief architects, and as Italian Romanesque was considered too expensive, further construction on campus took on

2610-528: The Bruin football team to its first Rose Bowl victory, against Michigan State, in 1966. Quarterback Gary Beban became the first UCLA player to win the Heisman Trophy in 1967. One hundred national championships have been won including tennis (1965), track (1966), and volleyball (1965 & 1967); numerous conference titles were won in other sports. Chancellor Murphy resigned in 1968 to take over as head of

2697-619: The California State Normal School opened its doors for its first classes on August 29, 1882. This was followed by a formal dedication ceremony on September 9, 1882, with Governor Perkins, Governor-elect George Stoneman , and State Superintendent Frederick M. Campbell in attendance. In coordination with the city's existing elementary school system , the new facility included a demonstration school with 150 pupils where teachers-in-training could practice their techniques with children. That elementary school would become

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2784-436: The College awarded its first Bachelor of Arts degrees to 98 women and 30 men. According to UC President Clark Kerr , the political science department at UCLA College in his experience was the second-strongest program in the entire UC system after the chemistry program at Berkeley . To date, three faculty members of the UCLA political science department have become UC chancellors (as listed below). The main disadvantage of

2871-516: The College of Letters and Science (named after its northern counterpart at Berkeley ) and was expressly authorized to award the Bachelor of Arts degree. Charles H. Rieber, a philosophy professor, was named the first dean of the new four-year college. The College's original departments in 1923 were chemistry, economics, English, French, history, mathematics, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, Spanish, and zoology. On June 12, 1925,

2958-770: The Jules Stein Eye Institute were some of the additions made. Murphy suggested the idea of a sculpture garden in North Campus while this construction was being planned; Jacques Lipchitz 's "Song of the Vowels" was the first object acquired in 1965, for $ 75,000 raised by Regent Norton Simon and the UCLA Art Council. In 1964, Coach John Wooden won the first of what would become a nearly uninterrupted series of 10 NCAA basketball championships before he eventually retired in 1975. Tommy Prothro coached

3045-609: The Junior College into the College of Letters and Science . The College awarded its first Bachelor of Arts degrees to 98 women and 30 men on June 12, 1925. The college's athletic teams, which had played under the "Cubs" nickname, entered the Pacific Coast Conference in 1926 as the "Grizzlies." With the nickname already taken by the University of Montana , the student council adopted the nickname "Bruins,"

3132-462: The Life and Physical Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Honors Program and other programs for both undergraduate and graduate students. It is often called UCLA College or the College, which is not ambiguous because the College is the only educational unit at UCLA to be currently denominated as a "college." All other educational units at UCLA are currently labeled as schools or institutes. The College

3219-875: The Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for peace-keeping efforts in the Middle East, and Glenn Seaborg won in 1951 for the discovery of plutonium at Berkeley.) Bond-financed construction boomed through the 1960s, the biggest building era in UCLA's history; Boelter Hall, the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute , Marion Davies Children's Clinic, Dickson Art Center, Engineering Reactor, Pauley Pavilion, Rieber and Hedrick residence halls, Knudsen Hall, Life Science Research Units No. 1 and No. 2., Melnitz Hall, six parking structures, Bunche Hall, Slichter Hall, Ackerman Union, University Research Library, Warren Hall, Rehabilitation, Dentistry, Public Health, and

3306-797: The Olympic games and served as an "Olympic village." Also in 1984, the Alumni Association celebrated its 50th anniversary by donating the "Bruin Bear" statue, located at Bruin Plaza, and the " Mighty Bruins " fight song , composed by Academy Award winner Bill Conti , to the university. In 1987, Professor Donald Cram received the Nobel Prize in chemistry, for host–guest chemistry . Reginaldo Francisco del Valle Reginaldo Francisco del Valle (December 15, 1854 – September 20, 1938)

3393-485: The Pacific Coast universities involved remained hostile for at least a decade. Allen himself resigned as Chancellor in 1959, after he was passed over for the position of President. The Board of Regents had brought Allen from Washington to UCLA with the expectation that he would succeed Sproul in due course, but turned against him because of the Pacific Coast scandal, poor campus planning during his chancellorship, and

3480-472: The Regents again dismissed Davis from the UCLA faculty. Student unrest at UCLA was further exacerbated when President Richard Nixon ordered the invasion of Cambodia and the National Guard fired upon student protesters at Kent State . Hundreds of student protesters marched through campus and vandalized several buildings, including an ROTC building, and part of Murphy Hall. Chancellor Young declared

3567-545: The Regents decreed the new site must be a gift or come without cost, the owners of the estate, the Janss brothers , agreed to sell the property for approximately $ 1 million, less than one-third the land's value. Municipal bond measures passed by Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and Venice provided for that amount. Proposition 10, a state bond measure passed that year with active campaigning by university students, provided $ 3 million for new campus construction. A dedication of

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3654-521: The Regents to increase UCLA's library holdings at a faster pace than Berkeley's library so the two would reach parity. A School of Library Service was instituted in 1960, followed by the School of Architecture and Urban Planning in 1966. The quarter system was implemented in 1965. In 1960, Willard F. Libby, professor of Chemistry, won the first Nobel Prize for science given to a UCLA faculty member, for developing radiocarbon dating . (Alums Ralph Bunche won

3741-495: The San Francisco firm of Winans and Belknap, and he passed the state bar examination in 1877. Del Valle opened his law office at 38 Temple Block , just a few steps from the Plaza. He was noted as a "logical and concise speaker" in an accent "with just a suave hint of Castilian ." On September 2, 1890, in San Francisco, he married Helen M. Caystile, widowed six years previously from T. J. Caystile , co-owner of

3828-653: 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, 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

3915-607: 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 the University of California in 1919, did not share Wheeler's objections. On May 23, 1919,

4002-656: The Teachers College, under Moore's continued direction. By 1923, enrollment had risen to 4,723 students and Southern Californians were furious that their so-called "branch" provided only a junior college program (mocked at the time by University of Southern California students as "the twig"). Regent Dickson proposed a third year of instruction in February 1923 and the UC Regents went on to approve third- and fourth-year instruction in separate votes, transforming

4089-578: The UC president, and were vested with considerable autonomy. Henry Russell Sanders , football coach from 1949–57, led UCLA to 66 victories and a national championship in 1954 until his death in 1958, of a heart attack. John Wooden 's basketball teams began to become known. They won four Southern Division titles and were PCC champions three times. "Ducky" Drake's track teams won the PCC and NCAA championships in 1956. Bill Ackerman and J.D. Morgan's tennis teams won five national championships between 1950 and 1956, and

4176-561: The UCLA College of Engineering was established in 1943. Enrollment in ROTC , which had been established early in UCLA's history (1920) and accommodated for more the one third of the male student body by 1940, actually tapered off through the 1940s, in favor of development of special units. These were: Male enrollment at UCLA dropped from 5107 before the war to 2407 the year after. When Provost Earl Hedrick, UCLA's chief executive officer at

4263-580: The board of trustees of that institution. In 1887, the branch school became a separate institution with its own board of trustees. In 1919, the Los Angeles State Normal School joined the University of California and evolved into the University of California, Los Angeles . Del Valle was elected to the California State Senate in 1882, serving from 1883 to 1887. In the latter year, the Los Angeles Times noted that del Valle:

4350-467: The campus chancellors; although the Regents had attempted to authorize such reforms back in 1951, the process had been repeatedly stalled by Sproul and his closest allies. To replace Allen, UCLA Vice Chancellor Vern Knudsen was appointed full Chancellor in the year before his retirement, after 38 years of service, after which Franklin David Murphy, dean of the University of Kansas Medical School,

4437-548: The campus on a wartime basis. Faculty adjusted the curriculum and academic schedule to assist students entering military service. A student defense committee, later called the Student War Board, was organized to coordinate emergency services. Japanese-American students issued a statement that read, "None of us have known loyalty to any country than America. We stand ready with other Americans to act in whatever capacity we may be called upon to perform in order to carry out

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4524-406: The columns of the Daily Bruin , distribute literature, file charges of racial discrimination, organize picket lines and incite riots. Worden estimated that one out of each 400 UCLA students were involved in such practices, but the only faculty member the California Un-American Activities Committee said was a member of the Communist party was a woman who played piano for physical education classes in

4611-416: The conference, but President Sproul apparently kept him from doing this. Some alumni seriously wanted UCLA to break away from the Northern California Regents and the UC president entirely. The conflict continued until a 1957 UCLA Alumni Association proposal to the Regents was ultimately successful in moving both UCLA and Berkeley out of the PCC by 1959, effectively breaking up the conference. Relations between

4698-407: The day when the Governor of California (William D. Stephens) signed a bill into law which officially established the Southern Branch of the University of California . At that time, a two-year Junior College was established as the university's general undergraduate program. The Junior College held its first classes on September 15, 1919 for 260 undergraduates. At its inception, the Junior College

4785-452: The first ever NCAA national championship in volleyball was awarded to UCLA in 1956. In the Winter and Spring of 1956, the unfolding of a huge scandal involving payment of student athletes by booster clubs at Pacific Coast Conference universities threatened to break up the UC system. UCLA was fined $ 93,000 for its involvement and its football team was placed on a three-year probation. Chancellor Allen wanted UCLA to independently break off from

4872-474: The gigantic size of the College (as with its counterpart at Berkeley) is a coldly impersonal undergraduate experience, especially in large lower-division survey courses (before students declare specific majors, begin to work more closely with department advisers and faculty members in their chosen major, and switch to smaller upper-division courses). It is because of this specific issue that UC President Clark Kerr experimented with residential college systems at

4959-446: The hill west of the athletic fields. They opened in 1959 and 1960, respectively. The UCLA Faculty Club assessed their membership $ 100 apiece and floated a loan from the Regents to build the Faculty Center, which was completed in 1959. Ackerman Union was also built from a Regents loan paid for by fees self-assessed by students in this period. For the first two decades of its existence, UCLA was oriented towards training educators and toward

5046-438: The late 1940s. He said that academic freedom: consists of something more than merely an absence of restraints placed upon the teacher by the institution that employs him. It demands as well an absence of restraints placed upon him by his political affiliations, by dogmas that stand in the way of a free search for truth or by rigid adherence to a "party line" that sacrifices dignity, honor and integrity to ... political ends. Allen

5133-403: The legislation that authorized it. Del Valle served on the city Public Services Commission for twenty-one years, beginning in 1908. He was the one who brokered peace in the "water wars" when irate ranchers dynamited the Los Angeles Aqueduct , which brought water to the city from the Owens River valley . "To him, as much as to anyone, Los Angeles owes the mighty aqueduct that was built to tap

5220-494: The liberal arts. With the establishment of graduate studies and professional schools, the school gradually became more oriented toward scientific research. The School of Medicine was developed primarily as a research institution, the first of its kind on the West Coast. SWAC , one of the nation's first large computers, powered by vacuum tubes , was built at UCLA in 1950. IBM established the Western Data Processing Center at UCLA in 1956, an early support and regional training center for

5307-429: The library and development of graduate studies allowed for additional colleges and professional schools at UCLA. The College of Commerce (later the graduate School of Business Administration) was established in 1935. In 1939 the School of Education replaced the Teachers College, and the College of Applied Arts (later the College of Fine Arts) was established. The December 7, 1941 airstrike on Pearl Harbor immediately put

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5394-415: The new campus took place near Founders Rock on October 25, 1926. Moore broke ground on the new campus in Westwood in September 1927. Construction officially began May 7, 1928, on four buildings: the University Library, Josiah Royce Hall , the Physics-Biology Building and the Chemistry Building (presently Powell Library , Royce Hall, Renee and David Kaplan Hall, and Haines Hall, respectively), arrayed around

5481-400: The new campus were held in 1929 with 5,500 students. ( Glenn T. Seaborg was a member.) Also in 1929, the Bruin and Trojan football teams met for the first time, with the Bruins losing 76–0. The first building dedicated to housing was built in the early 1930s. Titled Hershey Hall, the building was named after Almira Hershey , who willed $ 300,000 to UCLA to have the dorm built. The emergence of

5568-436: The newer UC campuses at San Diego and Santa Cruz . The College encompasses five divisions — Humanities, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences, as well as the Division of Undergraduate Education, which includes 83% of UCLA's undergraduate students. The main graduation commencement ceremony for the College of Letters and Science is held annually on a Friday night in June in Pauley Pavilion . For two years in

5655-411: The perception among the southern Regents that Allen had not put up sufficient resistance to Sproul's stubborn refusals to delegate power to the chancellors. Therefore, when Sproul finally announced his retirement in 1957, Allen was passed over in favor of the chancellor of the Berkeley campus, Clark Kerr . From 1957 to 1960, Kerr decentralized the UC bureaucracy and pushed power and responsibility down to

5742-400: The policy violated academic freedom and should be rescinded. The Senate, however, voted to request that the controversial oath be "deleted or revised." By August 1950, 36 faculty of Senate rank and 62 non-Senate UC employees were dismissed for refusing to sign the loyalty oath, including three from UCLA: John Caughey , History; Charles L. Mowat , History; and David S. Saxon , Physics. (While

5829-408: The present day UCLA Lab School . In 1887, the branch campus became independent of the original State Normal School, in the sense that it would now be governed by its own board of trustees, and changed its name to Los Angeles State Normal School. In October 1912, the Normal School trustees sold the original campus in downtown. The city of Los Angeles, which was looking to build a public library, bought

5916-420: The property and constructed what is now the Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library system. In 1914, the teaching college 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 the Normal School, began to lobby

6003-410: The recruitment of graduates on campus by Dow Chemicals , which produced napalm , an incendiary chemical used in the war. The protests escalated as the war continued. On January 17, 1969, UCLA students and Black Panther Party members John Huggins , 23, and Bunchy Carter , 26, were slain in Campbell Hall by members of US Organization , a rival black power organization headed by Maulana Karenga , in

6090-459: The resolution of our government." . President Sproul immediately established a University War Council, and with the year an "Engineering, Science and Management War Training" program in industrial sciences was established at UCLA, which trained workers in defense industries. UCLA became responsible for Project 36 of the Manhattan Project , that of purchasing and inspecting equipment for the scientists at Los Alamos. In conjunction with these projects,

6177-399: The southern branch. They vigorously lobbied the Regents of the University of California for a third year of instruction at the southern branch, which was promptly followed by demands for a fourth year. The Southern Californians finally prevailed on December 11, 1923, when the UC Board of Regents approved a fourth year of instruction. At that time, the Junior College was transformed into

6264-692: The state Supreme Court, in 1952's Tolman vs. Underhill , decided that the Regents did not have the power to compel loyalty oaths, in a separate case decided the same day it affirmed the power of the Legislature to require loyalty oaths of all state employees, and ordered the faculty non-signers to be reinstated only on the condition they sign the state's oath.) On Oct 21, 1950, the magazine Saturday Evening Post published "UCLA's Red Cell: Case History of College Communism," an article by free-lance writer William Worden, which asserted that leftist student activists had tried to control meetings, propagandize within

6351-564: The students, but not before a vigilante group of 150 athletes calling themselves "UCLA Americans" had formed, pledging to "purge the campus of radicals." In 1934, UCLA received its first major bequest—still one of the most generous in its history—the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library . The rare books and manuscripts collection includes some of the world's largest collections of English literature, history, and fine printing. The enrichment of

6438-479: The time, resigned in 1942, no new provost was appointed to replace him, and UCLA was administered by an interim faculty committee until 1945. Fraternity houses became cadets quarters. Athletic programs continued but were curtailed. Gasoline was rationed, and many drove to and from campus in car pools. Blood drives, scrap collections, War bond sales, and fruit harvesting became normal extracurricular activities. Students and faculty planted vegetable " Victory Gardens " as

6525-434: The transition from military life to academic existence. By 1947, veterans accounted for 43% of the total student body. The end of the war lead to a building boom on campus. A deep arroyo , once spanned by an elegant bridge between Royce quad and the administration building, was filled in with 400,000 cubic yards (310,000 m) of earth to create 26 acres (110,000 m) additional of usable land, upon which Schoenberg Hall,

6612-617: The trustees of the existing normal school in San Jose arrived in Los Angeles, where they were given lodging in the Pico House , and received offers of twenty potential sites. They toured proposed sites in Los Angeles, Pasadena, Santa Monica, and Aliso Grove (part of the Arroyo Seco area) before voting on March 25, 1881 to select a small orange grove called Bellevue Terrace in what is now downtown Los Angeles. The Los Angeles branch of

6699-538: The university's SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to Douglas Engelbart 's lab at Stanford Research Institute , in Menlo Park , California. SDS 940 Host computer. The message text was the word "login"; the "l" and the "o" letters were transmitted, but the system then crashed. Hence, the literal first message over the ARPANET was "lo". About an hour later, having recovered from the crash, the SDS Sigma 7 computer effected

6786-525: The use of computers for quantitative research. Other primitive computers obtained by the Center for Health Sciences and Department of Engineering were linked with SWAC to form an early Campus Computing Network. The library was also built up to 1,500,000 volumes, twelfth largest in the United States, and specialized branch libraries began to be established in major buildings on campus. UCLA's growth as

6873-623: The water of the Sierra ," the Los Angeles Times noted, and the Los Angeles Examiner said, "The city's present water system is a monument to his energetic leadership." Del Valle ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1884 and for Lieutenant Governor in 1890 . He was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1893, and he was chairman of the Democratic State Conventions in 1888 and 1894. He

6960-577: The women's gym. In response to these controversies, when Provost Dykstra died in 1950, the Regents sought to install someone who would dispel the "hotbed of Communism" stigma at UCLA. After an 18-month search, they selected Raymond B. Allen , head of the Psychological Strategy Board in Washington, D.C. Formerly the president of University of Washington , he was noted for having purged three Communists from employment there in

7047-587: The writing of the seminal 1974 paper A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication . This work proved foundational for their later development of the Transmission Control Protocol - TCP/IP protocol. In 1981, the UCLA Medical Center made history when assistant professor Michael S. Gottlieb first diagnosed an unknown affliction later to be called AIDS . In 1984, UCLA hosted the gymnastics and tennis competitions for

7134-590: Was a Californio statesman, lawyer and politician who served as a member of the California State Assembly from 1880 to 1883, and the California State Senate from 1883 to 1887. He was the youngest ever President pro tempore of the California Senate and was instrumental in the foundation of the institution today known as the University of California, Los Angeles . Del Valle was born on December 15, 1854, in an adobe house facing

7221-689: Was a delegate to the 1900 Democratic National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. With his friend Charles Lummis , del Valle was a founding member of the Landmarks Club of Southern California, formed in 1887 to advocate for the restoration of the California missions . He also was "one of the forty founding members of the Southern California Historical Society and spearheaded the committee to restore

7308-488: Was also selected because he held an MD and had organized the schools of medicine and dentistry at UW. As the UCLA Medical Center , the largest single building project in UC history at that time, was being constructed, three allied schools of Nursing, Dentistry, and Public Health were also initiated. Up until the mid-50s, postwar construction had been financed on tax surpluses accumulated during World War II and

7395-430: Was chosen to be UCLA's next Chancellor. Within the framework of the new California Master Plan for Higher Education , signed into state law in 1959, Chancellor Murphy worked to develop a long-range plan for further development and increased autonomy for UCLA. He rapidly increased the number of interdisciplinary institutes and specialized research centers, including various international area studies centers. He worked with

7482-432: Was not reinstated, and nearly 2,000 students crammed into Royce Hall's auditorium when Davis delivered her first lecture despite the Regents' decision to remove credit for the class. The overflowing audience gave the 25-year-old professor a standing ovation. On October 22, Chancellor Young complied with a State Superior Court order overruling the Regents' decision by restoring course credit to Davis's class. Eight months later,

7569-401: Was truly a junior college in both name and fact, because it offered only a two-year lower-division program. Young people interested in earning bachelor's degrees were required to proceed to the Berkeley campus or other universities to attend upper-division third- and fourth-year courses. The inferior two-year program was intolerable to the many Southern Californians who had fought to establish

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