{"id":6066,"date":"2012-07-31T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6066"},"modified":"2012-08-02T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T21:45:00","slug":"ucla-and-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6066","title":{"rendered":"UCLA and The Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5048\" title=\"userpic=ucla-csun\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicucla-csun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"82\" height=\"80\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>It&#8217;s been a busy day, what with two appointments and splitting a 1700+ page document into a 1500+ page document and a 400+ page document&#8230;. but I still wanted to share an article with you about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybruin.com\/article\/2012\/07\/judge-halts-uclas-sale-of-hannah-carter-japanese-garden\">a judge preventing UCLA from selling the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden<\/a>. This is a garden <a href=\"http:\/\/la.curbed.com\/archives\/2012\/08\/judge_stops_uclas_sale_of_carter_japanese_garden_for_now.php\" target=\"_blank\">that was willed to UCLA; they&#8217;ve been maintaining it for years<\/a>. Now they want to sell it. Why? According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe university believes that resources are best directed toward our academic mission and not toward a garden that serves no teaching or research purpose,\u201d said university spokesman Phil Hampton in an emailed statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read that closely. They want to sell the garden because it serves no teaching or research purpose. Really now? So why are they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybruin.com\/article\/2012\/07\/uc-board-of-regents-votes-unanimously-to-approve-152-million-conference-center-and-hotel\" target=\"_blank\">building a hotel on campus<\/a>. There are plenty of hotels in the neighborhood, and I&#8217;m unaware of UCLA having a hotel management program. Building an ungodly expensive hotel serves no teaching or research purpose. Neither does the artwork that adorns the buildings. Utilitarian buildings are cheaper; why waste the money on making university buildings pretty. Why have an arts program for the public? Hell, why have an athletic program&#8211;that serves no teaching or research purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Gardens can have a research and teaching purpose if used properly. They can provide research into botany. They can be used for art classes. They can be used for history classes. Don&#8217;t use teaching and research as an excuse; use it as a challenge to make your programs better.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you are trying to rationalize selling the gardens, at least be honest about it. UCLA needs the money. But somehow, I doubt it will go towards reducing registration fees or student costs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy day, what with two appointments and splitting a 1700+ page document into a 1500+ page document and a 400+ page document&#8230;. but I still wanted to share an article with you about a judge preventing UCLA from selling the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden. This is a garden that was willed to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6066\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[150],"class_list":["post-6066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","tag-ucla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6073,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}