Community Briefs

Faculty remembers deceased UCLA law
professor

More than 100 friends and family members crowded the Faculty
Center Wednesday to remember former UCLA law professor and Vice
Chancellor Harold W. Horowitz, who passed away July 28.

Horowitz was remembered for his fairness and integrity.

“His life, manner and way were just, true and
right,” said John Varat, dean of the UCLA Law School, as he
introduced friends and colleagues who recalled Horowitz’s
accomplishments in civil rights legislation.

Norm Abrams, current vice chancellor of faculty relations at the
UCLA School of Law commented on his lasting impact on the promotion
process.

“He designed a form of academic due process,” Abrams
said, as he noted that Horowitz remained true to his principles
throughout his administrative duties.

Horowitz received his undergraduate degree from UCLA and
returned as a law professor and administrator in 1964. After
serving 11 years as a vice chancellor, he retired in 1991.

His wife, Elizabeth, spoke about her husband’s commitment
to justice when he took on the Angela Davis case.

“It’s not about gratitude, it’s about doing
the right thing,” she remembers him saying.

Predicted demand for affordable L.A.
housing

Stephen Cauley, associate director of the Real Estate Center at
The Anderson School at UCLA, spoke at the second annual
Multi-Family Housing Conference on Wednesday about a rapidly
growing demand for multi-family housing in Los Angeles County in
the coming decade.

Projected population growth, the high price of single-family
dwellings and restrictions on growth that limit new construction
contribute to the housing crisis.

L.A. County, expected to grow 1 percent per year over the next
decade, is increasingly divided into two groups ““ those who
can afford to own homes and those who cannot, Cauley said.

One of the fastest growing segments of the county’s
population is generally blue-collar, younger, with less education
and lower incomes and largely Hispanic.

The economist sees the largest increases in demand for rental
housing as likely to occur in the blue-collar neighborhoods of East
L.A. and the northeastern San Fernando Valley.

The half-day conference ended with a keynote from Mayor Richard
Riordan, who emphasized the importance of available multi-family
housing to Southern California’s economic growth.

As a long-term solution to the housing-affordability crisis,
Cauley urged government leaders to adopt policies that provide
owners with incentives to rehabilitate existing properties and
provide developers with incentives to build new properties.

UCLA student awarded first prize for
writing

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate
screenwriting student Kelly Kennemer won first prize in the Samuel
Goldwyn Writing Awards for his drama “Rewind.” The 45th
annual awards were announced today by Samuel Goldwyn Jr., president
of the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, in a ceremony on the UCLA
Westwood campus.

Judging this year’s screenplays were Academy Award-winning
writer/director Frank Pierson, producer/author Lynda Obst and
former Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award-winner and novelist Carolyn
See. See is also a UCLA professor of English. Other winners
included J.L. Chang and Ryan Bradley. Bradley is a recent graduate
of UCLA School of Law.

Compiled by Daily Bruin Staff and wire reports.