Tuesday, November 3, 1998
Community briefs
UCLA Extension hosts tourism conference
UCLA Extension will host the 10th Annual Southern California
Visitor Industry Outlook Conference on Nov. 6 to discuss
California’s tourism industry.
Industry experts, including economists and tour operators, will
evaluate the local impact of the global economy crisis.
There will be no negative effect on California said Tiffany
Urness, research manager of the California Trade and Commerce
Agency’s Division of Tourism.
According to Urness’ research, 80 percent of California’s
tourist trade comes from residents. International tourism will be
represented by Gloria Lan, president of Tour America, a company
focusing on Chinese and Japanese tours.
The conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the
Disneyland Hotel and will include a luncheon and a tour of Tinsel
Town Studios, at a cost of $150. For further information call (310)
825-9971.
More applicants expected for UCs
The University of California is anticipating a record-breaking
number of applicants for the second year in a row. Applications are
being accepted during the month of November.
UC offices said 61,500 students applied last year and this year,
there are nearly 20,000 more high school seniors according to the
state Department of Education. This could mean over 2,000 more
applicants.
About 27,000 openings will be available for incoming freshman,
said UC President Richard Atkinson. Though competition will be
stiff, the UC guarantees admission to every student who fulfills
the minimum requirements.
However, transfer student applications have been declining since
1993, said UC officials, with 10,000 enrolled this fall, most from
the state’s community colleges. Hoping to counter that trend, the
UC and community colleges entered into an agreement last year to
increase transfers by more than a third by 2005.
Administrator, researcher dies
UCLA researcher and policy director Antonio Serrata died of
kidney cancer on Oct. 6. He was 54.
Serrata spent 14 years as part of the UCLA community. He earned
a masters’ degree in sociology at UCLA in 1987. Soon thereafter, he
began working full-time at the Chicano Studies Research Center.
In his 11 years at the center, Serrata held numerous position,
including director of the policy unit, management services officer
and staff researcher.
One of Serrata’s most significant accomplishments was helping to
formulate a statewide initiative to institutionalize research on
Latino communities throughout the UC system.
Serrata is survived by his wife, Vilma Ortiz (an associate
professor of sociology), his parents, six siblings, and son and
daughter. A memorial service will be held for Serrata on Nov. 5 in
the Charles E. Young Grand Salon.
Doctor named head
of kidney foundation
Joel D. Kopple, MD, chief of the division of nephrology and
hypertension at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, was elected president
of the National Kidney Foundation on Friday.
Kopple, a professor of medicine and public health at the UCLA
School of Medicine, had served as chairman of the National Kidney
Foundation’s Advisory Board and was a member of the Research
Endowment Board.
As president, Kopple hopes he can expand the foundation’s
research funding and enhance its professional education
programs.
His focus also includes finalizing the publication and
distribution of practice guidelines for nutritional therapy of
maintenance dialysis patients.
Compiled from Daily Bruin staff reports.
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