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Kerckhoff meeting room named for Young

At various times, it has been the Alumni Lounge, the Men's Smoking Room and most recently, the old offices of the Daily Bruin.

Pending completion of renovation in late March, Kerckhoff Hall Room 248 will be dedicated as the Charles E. Young Grand Salon, and will bear the distinction of being the first area on campus to bear the retiring chancellor's name.

Once renovations are complete, the students' association intends to use the room to host conferences and special events. According to Executive Director Patricia Eastman, the new meeting room will be one of the nicest venues on campus.

The students' association voted unanimously last Friday to adopt a resolution to name the meeting room after Young.

The resolution reads: "The Board of Directors for the Associated Students of UCLA appreciates the continued commitment of Chancellor Young and in tribute for his exemplary service to the association and the UCLA organization, hereby honors him by dedicating, in perpetuity, Kerckhoff Hall Room 248 as the Charles E. Young Grand Salon."

The first event in the Grand Salon is expected to take place in April.

Rumors about Tien's replacement abound

A committee charged with selecting a successor to UC Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien met in Oakland on Wednesday to interview possible replacements, UC administrators said.

Four candidates have been named in media reports, including Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a professor at the Haas School of Business and former economic adviser to President Clinton; Stanford University Provost Condoleezza Rice; UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor and Provost Carol Christ; and UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Henry Yang.

Tyson, 49, joined the UC Berkeley faculty following four years with the Clinton administration. She now teaches economics at Haas.

When asked if Tyson was interviewed yesterday, committee member and UC Regent Ward Connerly declined to comment, adding that, "We don't want to hurt anyone's feelings."

A finalist for president of the University of Michigan last year, Christ, 57, is well-known among the UC Regents.

She has been at the Berkeley campus since 1970 and is believed to be a favorite for the chancellorship within some circles on campus.

A representative of Christ's office said that she was in meetings all day yesterday and could not be reached for comment.

Rice, 42, is a political science professor and served as George Bush's national security advisor. She was not interviewed by the selection committee yesterday, according to Stanford officials.

Rice said yesterday that she was happy with her position at Stanford and was not interested in becoming head administrator of UC Berkeley.

Yang, 56, was a dean of engineering at Purdue University and served with NASA before taking the helm at UCSB. Reportedly quite popular among some committee members, reports indicate that Asian American groups have lobbied in support of Yang.

"The (selection) process has worked a lot better than I thought it would going in," said Charles Bertsch, graduate student representative on the committee.

Final recommendations from Atkinson must be approved by the UC Board of Regents. The board is scheduled to convene a meeting on March 20, but appointing a chancellor is not on the agenda for that date, said UC Office of the President spokesman Rick Malaspans.

Malaspans added that there may be a special meeting to confirm the candidate. These interviews follow an extensive search for a candidate to fill the open Berkeley and UCLA positions.

Compiled from Daily Bruin staff and wire reports