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Community Briefs

By Daily Bruin Staff

April 8, 1997 9:00 p.m.

Wednesday, 4/9/97

Community Briefs

Chancellor recognized for ‘strong leadership’

UCLA Chancellor Charles Young will receive a Distinguished
Service Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Council on
Education on April 15.

Young, who is retiring June 30, has served 29 years as UCLA’s
chancellor.

"Chuck Young is an outstanding example of strong, creative
leadership in American higher education," said the council’s
president, Stanley O. Ikenberry, in a statement.

"Under his guidance, UCLA has become one of the world’s premier
research universities. As a national spokesperson and leader of
American higher education, he has few peers. He leaves a powerful,
lasting legacy."

A dinner honoring Young will be hosted by Donna E. Shalala, the
U.S. secretary of health and human services. U.S. Rep. Jerry Lewis,
R-Redlands, and Roger Cossack, host of CNN’s "Burden of Proof,"
will also be present. Both Cossack and Shalala are UCLA alumni.

L.A. school chief choice nears

Finalists for Los Angeles’ top public school post will face the
community at three large open forums later this month.

The board’s decision Monday was unanimous, despite a rowdy
protest at Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters by
Latino activists and others who want to see Deputy Superintendent
Ruben Zacarias promoted.

The job opens at the end of June, when Superintendent Sid
Thompson retires.

"They keep extending the process because they want to somehow
watch him fail," said Marta Sanchez, a Mexican American Education
Commission member.

Member Mark Slavkin worried the uproar might frighten
candidates.

The superintendent finalists – three to five of them – are
expected to be presented to the board in closed session Thursday,
with public release of their names expected later in the day.

Zacarias, along with bank executive William Siart and British
educator Matt Dunkley, are the only candidates who have made their
interest public.

Locations and final dates of the forums have not been
finalized.

Animation software

to enhance film school

Alais Wavefront, a software developer, has donated almost
$300,000 worth of computer animation software to the UCLA School of
Theater, Film and Television.

The software is expected to significantly change the way UCLA
students are taught animation, school Dean Gilbert Cates said in a
statement.

"The new technology will definitely enhance our students’
storytelling skills and artistic talents as well as allow for new
content influenced by digital technology," said Celia Mercer,
assistant professor of animation in the department of film and
television in a statement.

Newborn condors raise number of rare birds

A hatching at 1 a.m. Tuesday produced the Los Angeles Zoo’s
third California condor chick of the year.

The chick’s debut and two others on Monday raised the total
population of the endangered species to 123, the zoo said. There
were only 27 of the giant birds in 1987.

The Los Angeles Zoo, one of three institutions raising
California condors, has eight more fertile eggs.

Four of 11 eggs produced this season at the San Diego Wild
Animal Park have hatched so far. Eight more eggs were incubating at
the Peregrine Fund facility in Boise, Idaho.

The condors, giant carrion-eaters with 9-foot wingspans,
disappeared from the skies as their habitat shrank and human
activities killed them off.

Compiled from Daily Bruin staff and wire reports.

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