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Chancellor Gene Block issued a statement today in response to a lawsuit filed against the UC Board of Regents that claimed the university failed to prevent discrimination, harassment and retaliation against a faculty member in the David Geffen School of Medicine.

Dr. Christian Head, a head and neck surgeon, said in the complaint filed April 17 in the Los Angeles County Superior Court that he has been subject to routine public humiliation by colleagues.

Former UCLA chancellor Charles E. Young asked the UC Board of Regents to formally consider a proposal for increased independence for individual UC campuses in an email sent last week.

“Real delegation or devolution from the center to the campuses has been needed for a long time, and that rationale has grown ever stronger in recent years, as UC grew ever bigger and more complicated,” Young wrote in an email sent to former UC chancellors and other officials and

In April, UC Berkeley officials including chancellor Robert Birgeneau , titled “Modernizing Governance at the University of California,” which proposed taking some governing powers away from the UC Board of Regents and giving them to individual campuses.

Campus boards, created under the new structure, would then make “quicker and more locally attuned” decisions, the report states.

UC President Mark Yudof in response to the report saying he disagrees with the proposal “in current form.” No formal review of the report has been conducted since its release.

In his email, Young said that while he does not agree with all of the details in the proposal, he supports further discussion, and has asked for a formal appointment from the UC President to help lead that discourse.

Compiled by Emily Suh, Bruin contributor.

Three men tried to rob a UCLA student at gunpoint late Wednesday night on Strathmore Avenue, police said.