Ucla Program

Students at Southern California universities and colleges come up winners in the Shopping Center Game, a UCLA Extension seminar. They win the coordinator's salary. Steven Soboroff, Soboroff/Moskowitz Co., Santa Monica, donates his salary to a scholarship fund he calls "Rent a Student." The fund permits students to intern at real estate development firms. Rent a Student scholarships are worth up to $500 each and about 140 interns have participated.

Thousands of notes--entire forests of hemidemisemiquavers abuzz in activity, thickets of chords and octaves, cascades of arpeggios--tumble out of the piano when Vladimir Viardo plays a recital. And that's only in the first quarter-hour. Besides technique, the Russian pianist has stamina; he can keep up his own, hyperkinetic keyboard pace for long periods.

With high intelligence and deadpan humor, the veteran California-based dance-makers who collaborated on "4 Choreographers / Southern Exposure" in Kaufman Hall at UCLA on Friday used much of their seven-part program to perform dances that doubled as lessons.

The two turtles in the center of the classroom--placidly munching lettuce on a plastic lunch tray--do not immediately appear to have anything to do with teaching literacy skills to the noisy 4-year-olds who surround them. But from the book-lined reading corner in the back of the room to the turtle tray in the front, teachers and administrators at UCLA's Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School view almost every preschool activity as a way to nurture literacy.

When Elisa Castaneda left her teaching job in Guatemala five years ago, she knew she would have to take a step back in order to move forward. So when she and her family arrived in Los Angeles, she swallowed her pride, tucked her college degree away among her other keepsakes and went to work cleaning houses. After two years, Castaneda landed a job as a teaching assistant in a church's bilingual child-care center, then worked her way up to teaching toddlers in Spanish.

Jessica Harris, who helped Woodland Hills El Camino Real High win the City Section girls' soccer title, and All-Southern Section catcher Jessica Creps of Valencia have committed to UCLA. Both will be seniors. Other college commitments include: * UC Riverside has signed six area high school baseball players: Anthony Claggett of Palm Springs, Walter Crancer of Norco, Chad Decker of Moreno Valley Valley View, Kevan Kelley of Yucaipa, Nick Salotti of Palm Desert and Brian Steinmeyer of Corona.

UCLA was reprimanded and censured today for violations of NCAA's regulations involving the school's men's basketball program. In addition, the NCAA's Committee on Infractions announced that until the end of the 1988-89 academic year, a total of no more than four new student-athletes shall be recipients of initial, athletically related financial aid in men's basketball.

Re "Plan to Dismantle 4 UCLA Schools Protested," Oct. 15: Despite the ongoing budget crisis, UCLA Chancellor Charles E. Young's intention to shut down the master's and doctoral programs in library and information sciences is shortsighted and dangerous. Now, more than ever, as business, governments and individuals need access to relevant, timely, global information, it seems ironic that Young is considering shutting down these programs. California needs a professional work force to manage its information resources, now and in the future.

Digging through household trash is usually the province of cheap private eyes and tabloid reporters. But for 70 UCLA Extension students, it's a summer job unlike any other. The students for the last three weeks have been pawing through truckloads of garbage--in 90-degree-plus heat, for no pay--at the Azusa Land Reclamation Co. dump.

The third annual Donald G. Hagman Commemorative Program Sept. 26-27 at UCLA will deal with the subject, "Rental Housing in California: Are Market Forces and Public Policies on a Collision Course?" The $135, two-day program at the UCLA Faculty Center is sponsored by UCLA Extension's Public Policy Program and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Co-sponsors are the university's School of Law and School of Architecture and Urban Planning and the UC Irvine Program in Social Ecology.