Friday, May 15, 1998
Carnesale to lay out goals at inauguration
Traditions of grandeur, dissidence surround festivities
By Lawrence Ferchaw
Daily Bruin Contributor
It has not taken place at UCLA for 29 years, but it will happen
today.
Before an audience of regents, faculty, staff and students,
Chancellor Albert Carnesale will be inaugurated this morning at
11:30 in the Royce Hall auditorium.
During the ceremony, Carnesale will deliver his inauguration
speech. "It’s essentially a speech that outlines where I believe
UCLA can reach and why and how we might get there," Carnesale
said.
Since his selection, Carnesale has indicated his desire to
transform UCLA from a good university to one of the great
universities.
The ceremony will follow the traditions for academic ceremonies
with a procession of the academic representatives dressed in robes
and hoods. UC President Atkinson and Carnesale will be at the end
of this procession.
It will also follow a tradition of protest: students are
planning a rally to protest the end of affirmative action, just as
a previous generation interrupted Chancellor Charles Young’s
inauguration in 1969 to protest the Vietnam War.
The inauguration coincides with the UC Board of Regents meeting
Thursday and today at UCLA.
This will be followed by speeches by UC Regent Meredith
Khachigian, Mayor Richard Riordan, faculty and staff
representatives, and student government leaders.
UC President Atkinson, after a performance by UCLA’s chorale and
opera, will formally install Carnesale, and bestow upon him the
chancellors’ medal, the insignia of the office. The chancellor
wears the medal at ceremonial observances, such as
convocations.
Carnesale will then deliver his inaugural address.
The inauguration will also offer the opportunity for UCLA to
look back on its past, ahead to the future and remember the leaders
who have shaped the university’s 78-year history.
Carnesale is only the eighth chancellor of UCLA and his
appointment followed the 29-year reign of Charles Young.
Past leaders of the university include: Ernest Moore, the first
administrator in charge, Robert Sproul, president of the UC system
who simultaneously led UCLA, Earle Hedrick and Franklin Murphy.
Tickets to the inauguration were distributed randomly to
students who requested them. Those who don’t have tickets can see
it on the internet or university cable.