Thursday, February 18, 1999
Community Briefs
BRIEFS:
USAC allocate funds
to student groups
The Undergraduate Students Association Council (USAC)
distributed its surplus funds of $40,000, left over from last
year’s council, to student groups and USAC offices at its meetings
last week and this Tuesday.
Each year, USAC counts on its surplus budget to pay for funding
requests not covered by contingency fees.
Finance Committee chair Adrian Manalang said requests for
capital funding, such as computers and monitors, receive first
priority for surplus funds, followed by programming and outstanding
balances and debts.
"After we see the requests, we decide which ones get priority,"
Manalang said.
Among the groups receiving substantial funding was the African
Student Union, with $6,000 awarded to pay for part of their Hip Hop
Explosion program.
USAC’s booklending program also received $5,000 to purchase 100
new textbooks.
Although USAC does not normally fund the purchase of copy
machines, the finance committee made an exception for the Gay and
Lesbian Association because group’s flyers are consistently torn
down and it can’t afford to keep making new copies, according to
Manalang.
Technological hospital plans to open in 2004
UCLA will create an all-digital hospital – one that will
integrate data, video and other technologies – to enhance patient
care, medical education and scientific research, replacing a
medical center in 2004.
Patients will be able to watch health-related educational
videos, check their e-mail and surf the Web.
"We envision a totally digital hospital," said Dr. J. Michael
McCoy, UCLA Medical Center’s senior associate director information
officer.
"And I think we’re building the first digital hospital in the
country, if not the world, that is designed that way from the
beginning," McCoy said.
Additionally, doctors and nurses will carry integrated
palm-sized devices that will serve as computers, telephones and
pager. These devices will allow them to view X-rays, MRI scans and
other medical images.
Though construction of the new medical center begins next
January, UCLA’s pediatric radiology department has already begun
converting the hospital to a digital environment by utilizing only
digital images that are stored on computers instead of film.
Carol Burnett directs musical theater
Alumna Carol Burnett has returned to the UCLA campus to guest
direct the Musical Theater Workshop’s production of "Once Upon a
Mattress."
"For (Burnett) to make her directing debut at UCLA and share her
gifts and insights with our students creates a wonderful, positive
atmosphere for these young performers," said John Hall, a professor
of music who directs the musical theater workshop.
Performances will run 8 p.m. Feb. 26-27 and March 5-6, and 3
p.m. Feb. 28 and Mar. 7 in Schoenberg Hall. Tickets are $15 for
reserved seats and $8 for students and seniors.
Regents to meet
at UC San Francisco
Today at the University of California at San Francisco in Laurel
Heights and the UC Board of Regents will be holding their February
meeting that will last only one day.
Topics on the agenda will include discussions of the proposed
four percent freshman eligibility plan, a review of the progress
report on the long range enrollment and a discussion of restoring
California Retirement Plan members’ benefits.
Compiled from Daily Bruin wire reports.
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