Community Briefs

Thursday, December 10, 1998

Community Briefs

State won’t pay

for holiday cheer

In a memo to department heads and directors, Susan Abeles,
assistant vice chancellor of finance, reminded departments that
state and federal funds should not be used for holiday parties or
employee gifts.

Departments are allowed to use university funds for parties, but
these must be unrestricted funds and departments are encouraged to
question the necessity of such parties.

"As with all university entertainment events, departments are to
evaluate the importance of the event in terms of the costs that
will be incurred and the benefits to be derived from it," Abeles’
memo said.

The memo also stated that university funds cannot be used to buy
gifts for employees or suppliers. Employees are also discouraged
from accepting gifts from suppliers to avoid the appearance of a
conflict of interest.

"Gifts in the form of edible goods or promotional items may be
accepted on behalf of a campus department from an existing
supplier," Abeles said.

These gifts become property of the university to be consumed on
campus, Abeles added.

Toledo shaken up,

OK after car accident

UCLA head football coach Bob Toledo and offensive line coach
Mark Weber were involved in a minor car accident Tuesday afternoon.
Neither went to the hospital, although according to his
self-diagnosis, Toledo suffered a mild shoulder separation.

The accident, in Norcross, Ga., occurred when the rental car
that Weber was driving was broadsided by another motorist.

"All I remember is that we were spinning around and around,
everything in slow motion," Toledo said. "We’re just lucky to be
alive. It puts that Miami game in perspective."

Toledo and Weber had been on a recruiting trip, and decided
despite the accident to remain on the East coast and finish their
recruitment visits. According to Marc Dellins, of UCLA sports
information, the two felt it would be detrimental to the program if
they missed out on recruits because of the accident.

Students to attend court over protest

Seven of the students involved in last spring’s Royce Hall
protests will be in court Friday to have their cases heard.

Most of the 88 students arrested on May 20 were not required to
go to court, and were given infractions.

The protest was part of a coordinated effort on the part of many
student groups on campus. The "Days of Defiance" protests began
when Chancellor Albert Carnesale was inaugurated on May 19, and
culminated in the protest the following day, when students took
over Royce Hall, occupying the building until they were ousted by
LAPD officers.

UC receives money

for humanities research

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $300,000
challenge grant to the University of California Humanities Research
Institute (HRI).

The grant requires that $900,000 be raised by the Institute
during the next five years. The funds will be used to establish an
endowment of $1.2 million for HRI. The institute, based at UC
Irvine, is a unit of the UC Office of the President and serves the
nine-campus University of California system.

As the humanities center for the University of California
system, the institute promotes interdisciplinary scholarship in the
humanities and fosters intellectual community across campus and
international borders. "There is a compelling need for different
fields of knowledge to inform one another as fully as possible,"
said institute director Patricia O’Brien.

Compiled from Daily Bruin wire reports

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