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New board members allowed to vote

By Daily Bruin Staff

May 18, 1997 9:00 p.m.

Monday, 5/19/97 New board members allowed to vote MEETING:
Fund-raising campaign led by Young also formally approved

By Brooke Olson Daily Bruin Senior Staff The UC student regent
and other regents-designate will see their impact on the Board
increase next year. Members of the Board of Regents voted last
Thursday to extend committee participation rights and various
funding benefits to regents-designate. Regents-designate are
individuals who are appointed to the board but are not yet voting
members. Student regents serve for three months after their
appointment before becoming voting members in July, while alumni
regents wait one year before achieving voting rights. Thursday’s
vote allows the regents-designate to benefit from some of the
privileges offered to full members of the board. Student and alumni
regents will now receive funding for travel and other expenses
incurred during their time on the Board. In addition, the
regents-designate will be able to serve as advisory members of two
or three of the special regents committees. Regents commended the
policy, noting that it would allow the students and alumni to
quickly ease into the regents position. Noting that the student and
alumni regents play an important role in providing the Board with
outside perspectives, Regent Tirso del Junco noted that the policy
would offer increased access to regents’ discussions and
deliberations. The policy also secured funding for student regents’
office space and materials – a move student regent Jess Bravin
commended. "This additional funding will enable the student regent
to work more efficiently," Bravin said, noting that he worked for
months as a student regent-designate without an office. Student
regents will also receive a personal computer, fax machine and
access to e-mail and the Internet in their office. In other news,
UCLA Chancellor Charles Young got formal approval from the regents
Thursday for the university’s ongoing campaign to raise $1.2
billion. UCLA already has raised more than a third of the money
during the campaign’s "private" phase, which began last July. The
drive is designed to give UCLA greater financial independence at a
time of eroding state and federal support, administrators said. "We
have raised in excess of $440 million," Young told the regents
Thursday, predicting that the university total may have reached
$450 million before the public phase was to be formerly announced
Saturday. UCLA officials said the university’s 285,000 alumni –
only 12 percent of whom now give to the school – will be among
those tapped for donations in the next five years. About half of
the $1.2 billion will go to the UCLA Medical Center. The rest will
augment the university’s $709-million endowment for student
scholarships, fellowships, faculty salaries and assorted
construction projects. The public phase of the fundraising campaign
begins just as UCLA undergoes a major transition in leadership.
Harvard provost Albert Carnesale will replace Young in July. Staff
and faculty are anticipating that Carnesale will be able transfer
his Ivy League ties to aid in UCLA’s upcoming $1.2 billion private
fund-raising campaign. In the 1995-96 fiscal year, UCLA
fund-raisers collected nearly $191 million in donations, compared
to the $110.1 million in private support during the 1994-95 year.
The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education lists
UCLA’s campaign as the largest of any public university. UC
Berkeley falls second; last fall that university sought the
regents’ approval for a $1.1-billion campaign. The regents are also
currently negotiating whether to renew management contracts for the
three national labs run by the University of California. The
five-year contracts between UC and the Department of Energy are due
to expire at the end of September. UC Senior Vice President V.
Wayne Kennedy told the UC board of regents Thursday that the two
sides have yet to reach agreement on the fee structure and some
special provisions for the Los Alamos National Laboratories. "There
continue to be wide differences, which must be reconciled,”
Kennedy said in prepared remarks. Fee structure is the amount the
university gets for running the labs. Current compensation is $25
million a year for all three laboratories, Lawrence Livermore, Los
Alamos and Lawrence Berkeley. That covers fixed costs and provides
a fund of $14 million to cover any unallowable costs such as fines
or errors. UC administrators are not releasing specifics of the
disagreements while negotiations are ongoing, but some UC officials
speculated that decreasing interest in nuclear technology has
impacted the labs’ prestige. Discussions are expected to be
continued in a few weeks. Previous Daily Bruin stories: Donor-bias
admissions proposal deferred ,May 16, 1997

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