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University creates faculty position

The university is accepting applications and nominations for a new associate vice chancellor for faculty diversity. Applications should be sent to the AVC Faculty Diversity Search Committee by Aug. 1.

According to the AVC Faculty Diversity Search Committee, creation of the new position reaffirms UCLA’s dedication to faculty diversity.

The person who holds the new position is expected to pursue faculty diversity as a part of academic excellence at UCLA. They will report to the vice chancellor for academic personnel and advise the chancellor and the executive vice chancellor.

Candidates must have the academic credentials necessary to be hired for a UCLA tenured position. The position will go into effect in winter 2002.

Spring Midnight Yell uneventful

Burning couches, firecrackers and water balloon fights at midnight during finals week may have been a short-lived tradition for UCLA students spring quarter.

“You could describe this quarter’s Midnight Yell as uneventful,” said Lt. Manny Garza of university police.

According to Garza, UCPD issued fewer than one dozen citations. Most citations they issued involved noise complaints.

“Five or 10 minutes and it was over. We were out of the area in 20 minutes,” he said. “A few fireworks were the highlight of it.”

Midnight Yell is the tradition where students scream for several minutes outside their apartments or on rooftops to alleviate the stress of finals week.

During Midnight Yell in fall 1999, officers from the Los Angeles Police Department arrested 19 students for arson and/or failure to disperse.

But by fall 2000, Midnight Yell activities had subsided due to increased university regulations. UCPD entered into an agreement with LAPD to patrol Midnight Yell, because they felt students would respond better to campus police.

“I commend them for using UCPD instead of LAPD,” said Ryan McManus, a fourth-year business economics student.

But McManus also thought the UCPD’s presence was more than it needed to be.

“They’re not needed in full force. They had like 50 cops in two hours, geared up at 6 or 7 p.m.,” he said.

Both UCPD and other university administrators say they are satisfied that they have reached their goals .

“We’ve brought it back to where we’d like it to be,” Garza said.

UC vice president receives award

Cornelius L. Hopper, vice president for health affairs emeritus of the University of California, is the recipient of the first National Medical Fellowships Founder’s Award.

The National Medical Fellowships, a private nonprofit organization, was founded in 1946 to provide financial aid to African-American medical students.

“Hopper is a medical statesman of the very first rank,” UC President Richard C. Atkinson said in a statement. “National Medical Fellowships could not have chosen a more appropriate person to honor with its first Founder’s Award.”

Hopper retired in October 1999 after 20 years with the UC. As vice president for health affairs, he presided over long-range planning and policy development for a statewide health sciences academic establishment that is the nation’s largest, encompassing 14 health professions schools that enroll 13,000 students and provide clinical training in UC’s major medical centers and affiliated hospitals throughout the state.

Before joining the UC, Hopper brought together a network of physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners and administrators to create a multi-county primary care network in rural south central Alabama.

Shortly after his formal retirement, Hopper, at Atkinson’s request, took on the job of chairing a 14-member Medical Student Diversity Task Force. Hopper currently serves as chair of the Board of Regents at Samuel Merritt College in Oakland.

Reports from Daily Bruin staff and wire services.