Charles E Young

To many students at UCLA, Charles E. Young is a building or a street, not a breathing, teaching human being. After all, two prominent features of the Westwood campus are the Charles E. Young Research Library and Charles E. Young Drive, both named for the charismatic chancellor who led UCLA for nearly 30 years until he retired in 1997.

In late November, not long after Eli Broad made his very public offer of a $30-million bailout to the cash-strapped Museum of Contemporary Art, the billionaire philanthropist also extended a behind-the-scenes offer to Charles E. Young, chancellor emeritus of UCLA, to act as the museum's first chief executive.

Former UCLA Chancellor Charles E. Young, who headed the Westwood campus for nearly 30 years, joked in an e-mail this week to family and friends that retirement seems an activity at which he is destined to fail. After UCLA, Young served as president of the University of Florida for more than four years. Now, at 72, he is launching yet another career in academia: as president of an ambitious educational and scientific foundation in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar.

For weeks, UCLA Chancellor Charles E. Young had wrestled over how to say goodbye. After 29 years at the helm of the Westwood campus, he had delivered his last commencement speech, wiping away tears after telling students that he too was finally graduating. He had attended more formal tributes and farewell dinners than he could count.

UCLA Chancellor Charles E. Young got formal approval from the UC Board of Regents on Thursday for UCLA's ongoing campaign to raise $1.2 billion, the most ambitious fund-raising drive ever attempted by a public university. The school already has raised more than a third of the money during the campaign's "private" phase, which began last July. Young said the drive is designed to give UCLA greater financial independence at a time of eroding state and federal support.

Charles E. Young, the outspoken, charismatic chancellor of UCLA who helped transform the Westwood campus into a world-class research university, announced his retirement Wednesday, effective June 30, 1997. Young's announcement comes on the heels of a bitter, public dispute between UC President Richard Atkinson and Gov. Pete Wilson over the implementation of a ban on affirmative action in UC admissions--a ban that Young has loudly opposed.

Still furious and deciding whether to pursue a lawsuit against UCLA, ousted Bruin coach Jim Harrick on Tuesday questioned whether the Bruin basketball program could recover from the controversy created by his firing a month ago. "Who are they going to hire? Who's going to take the job knowing they fired four guys in 13 years?" Harrick said from his Wilshire Boulevard condominium, arguing that Athletic Director Peter T.

Special consideration in admissions for the rich and well-connected has been part of the UCLA culture for years, extending beyond University of California regents and state politicians to include friends and relatives of local political figures, university officials and major donors, a months-long Times investigation shows. In some cases, UCLA Chancellor Charles E.

While state lawmakers called for investigations into charges of favoritism in UCLA admissions, Chancellor Charles E. Young on Saturday acknowledged his staff may have "acted improperly" by showing preferences to applicants sponsored by UC regents and other public office holders.

Publicly airing their opposition to Proposition 209 for the first time, UCLA Chancellor Charles E. Young and UC Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien together condemned the initiative Sunday, saying it would erode the quality of public higher education and send a hurtful message to California's minority residents.