Trojans join
By Christa Hohmann
Staff Writer
About 70 demonstrators, including six university students, filled Meyerhof Park on the UCLA .campus Friday to call attention to the recent outbreak of violence in Soviet Azerbaijan.
"It's a war by the government against unarmed people," said Lousine Varpetian, a USC sophomore majoring in political science.
The fighting in Nagomo-Karabagh, a region
in Azerbaijan with an 80 percent Armenian population, broke out more than a week ago and has claimed at least 30 lives.
As the demonstrators carried placards, they chanted such phrases as "stop the killing," "guilty of massacre" and "stop violating human rights."
Greg Keosian, a UCLA graduate, addressed the protesters and identified a list of demands,
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By Bob Elston
Assistant City Editor
The university will spearhead a consortium of schools in a $12.5 million photonics research project funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.
The photonics grant will finance fundamental research into opto-electronic communications technology — specifically, technology for developing computer chips that would outperform conventional silicon chips by utilizing light to transmit information, said Tom Garrow, executive director of engineering development at the university.
"This is really a coup," said Richard Kaplan, vice provost for research and computing. "This is the biggest individual (grant) the School of Engineering has ever got."
The grant is to be dispersed over the next three years. The first installment is expected within the next few weeks, Garrow said.
The research, though it is funded by the Defense Department, is not designated as classified defense research but as "public access" research, said William Steier, professor of electrical engineering. Public access
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Retail chain opens department store at new high school
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Teenagers will have a new excuse to ask their parents for money for school — a department store is opening a branch at West Virginia’s newest high school.
Stone & Thomas, a Wheeling-based retailer, plans to open its Capital High School store Feb. 5. School officials say they believe it might be the only such shop in the country. .
Students working at the store will earn credit toward the school’s business curriculum, but they won’t be paid, school officials said. s
Company executive Scott Williams says the store won’t carry expensive designer brands.
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By Katie Sweeney
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Students who wish to appeal parking tickets may find that the process is less elusive than finding an empty parking space.
University officials said Friday that appeals are ususally processed ir. & few weeks.
Roy Heidicker, director of Parking Operations, said that if students wish to contest a ticket, they must fill out an appeals form within 14 days of feceiving the dta-. tion. Though it usually takes two to three weeks for the rorm to be processed, he said that "the office is very busy, and it might take up to 30 days for the form to be reviewed."
Students should call the parking office to find out the results of their appeal after a few weeks, Heidicker said.
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e Most often the citation remains valid, and the student must pay the fine either in person or by mail.
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Kaplan said it is university policy not to conduct on-campus research that is “classified or mission-oriented."
Public access research, such as the photonics study, is intended to be widely disseminated, Steier said.
"One of the hallmarks of university research projects is public information," Garrow said. "The mission is to build a base of knowledge."
The other four schools in the consortium are Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UCLA, Kent State University and Columbia University.
"Half of the bucks will stay here (at the university)," Kaplan said, and the rest will be divided among the other participating universities.
Leonard Silverman, dean of the engineering school, invested significant department money and building space within the school to create facilities conducive to receiving photonics research grants, Kaplan said.
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