Friday, February 5, 1999
Community Briefs
BRIEFS:
Dual gates in use at
De Neve work site
Because of a dispute between the local iron workers’ union and
one of the subcontractors on the De Neve Plaza construction
project, the construction site must maintain two gates.
The gate on Charles E. Young Drive, near the entrance to Dykstra
Hall, is to be used only by workers and suppliers of Sampson Steel,
the structural steel subcontractor on the project. The other gate,
on Gayley Avenue, is to be used by all other contractors.
The two gates must remain out of sight from one another, which
allows for picketers to line the gate where the disputed
subcontractor enters without forcing other employees to cross a
picket line.
The two-gate system is required in cases where there is a
dispute between a union and a contractor, according to Ed Lloyd,
the university’s representative for the De Neve project.
Lloyd added picketing occurred on the first couple of days after
Sampson Steel arrived at the site, but has not occurred
recently.
Suspicious package found at law school
Students and faculty at the UCLA School of Law were forced to
evacuate parts of the Law Building after an employee reported a
suspicious package to university police Thursday.
UCPD received the call at 2:15 p.m.; the first officer who
responded examined the package that had no return address and
called for the Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad.
The first floor of the building was evacuated, and the whole
building was evacuated for a short time, while the bomb squad
examined the package.
Officers determined it was not a bomb, but rather a package
containing audio and video tapes. Officials declared the scene safe
and opened the entire building at 4:10 p.m.
Pebley appointed population chair
Abdelmonem Afifi, dean of the UCLA School of Public Health,
announced the appointment of Anne Pebley, a sociologist and
demographer, as the Fred H. Bixby Professor of Population, Family
and International Health.
"It’s a tremendous opportunity to appoint a scholar of Anne
Pebley’s stature to the Bixby chair," Afifi said in a
statement.
"We look forward to her strengthening the school’s academic and
community activities in several key areas."
Pebley has focused on children’s welfare, family organization
and the organization and effectiveness of social and health
programs.
Pebley, who is currently in charge of the population studies
center for the RAND Corporation, has done studies in population
abroad and served as a professor at Princeton University.
The chair was established in 1975 through an endowment from the
Fred H. Bixby Foundation.
Finding complicates AIDS treatment
Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology
at UC San Francisco have found that some HIV patients have two
distinct forms of the virus in their body.
The discovery, which could make treatment more difficult,
revealed that patients with AIDS-related dementia have a different
strain of the virus in their cerebrospinal fluid than in their
blood. Two types of drug treatment may be necessary for these
patients, scientists said.
Compiled from Daily Bruin staff reports.
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