9 Faculty and alumni 10 References 11 External links History[edit]

4.2 Graduate
5 Crime
6 Economic impact
6.1 Trademarks and licensing
7 Athletics
7.1 USC rivalry
8 Student life
8.1 Traditions
8.2 Student government
8.3 Media publications
8.4 Housing
8.5 Hospitality
8.6 Chabad House
9 Faculty and alumni
10 References
11 External links
History[edit]

Main article: History of the University of California, Los Angeles
In March 1881, after heavy lobbying by Los Angeles residents, the California State Legislature authorized the creation of a southern branch of the California State Normal School (which later became San Jose State University) in downtown Los Angeles to train teachers for the growing population of Southern California. The State Normal School at Los Angeles opened on August 29, 1882, on what is now the site of the Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library system. The new facility included an elementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their teaching technique on children. That elementary school is related to the present day version, UCLA Lab School. In 1887, the school became known as the Los Angeles State Normal School.[27]


The Los Angeles branch of California State Normal School, 1881.
In 1914, the school moved to a new campus on Vermont Avenue (now the site of Los Angeles City College) in East Hollywood. In 1917, UC Regent Edward Augustus Dickson, the only regent representing the Southland at the time, and Ernest Carroll Moore, Director of the Normal School, began working together to lobby the State Legislature to enable the school to become the second University of California campus, after UC Berkeley. They met resistance from UC Berkeley alumni, Northern California members of the state legislature, and Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California from 1899 to 1919, who were all vigorously opposed to the idea of a sout

Provost Scott L. Waugh[3] Academic staff 4,016[4] Admin. staff 26,139

n. The presence of a U-M flag on the moon is a long-held campus myth.[171]University of California, Los Angeles
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"UCLA", "Ucla", and "U.C.L.A." redirect here. For other uses, see UCLA (disambiguation).
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California UCLA.svg
Motto    Fiat lux (Latin)
Motto in English    Let there be light
Established    1882/1919 (became the second UC campus)
Type    Public
Endowment    US $2.59 billion [1]
Chancellor    Gene D. Block[2]
Provost    Scott L. Waugh[3]
Academic staff    4,016[4]
Admin. staff    26,139
Students    41,812 (2013)[5]
Undergraduates    28,674 (2013)[5]
Postgraduates    13,138 (2013)[5]
Location    Los Angeles, California, United States
34°04′20.00″N 118°26′38.75″WCoordinates: 34°04′20.00″N 118°26′38.75″W
Campus    Urban
419 acres (1.7 km²)[6]
Former names    University of California Southern Branch (1919–1927)
University of California at Los Angeles (1927–1958)
Newspaper    Daily Bruin
Colors         UCLA Blue[7]
     UCLA Gold[7]
Athletics    22 Varsity Teams
NCAA Division I
Nickname    UCLA Bruins
Mascot    Joe & Josephine Bruin [8]
Affiliations    AAU
Pacific Rim
Pacific-12
University of California
Website    ucla.edu
UCLA Logo.svg
The University of California, Los A

rict judge in California who overturned the controversial California Proposition 8 in 2010 and ruled it unconstitutional, received his undergraduate degree from U-M in 1966.[182] Some more notorious graduates of the University are 1910 convicted murderer (though perhaps wrongfully so)[183] Dr. Harvey

 Productions, also graduated from the University of Michigan. A member of Starkid, actor and singer Darren Criss, is a series regular on the television series Glee.
Musical graduates include operatic soprano Jessye Norman,[167] singer Joe Dassin, jazz guitarist Randy Napoleon, and Mannheim Steamroller founder Chip Davis.[167] Classical composer Frank Ticheli and Broadway composer Andrew Lippa attended. Pop Superstar Madonna[167] and rock legend Iggy Pop[167] attended but did not graduate.
Other U-M graduates include Donald Kohn (past Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Temel Kotil (president and CEO of Turkish Airlines), current Dean of Harvard Law School Martha Minow, assisted-suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian,[167] Weather Underground radical activist Bill Ayers,[177] activist Tom Hayden,[167] architect Charles Moore,[178] Rensis Likert (a sociologist who specialized in management styles and developed the Likert scale), the Swedish Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg,[179] and Benjamin D. Pritchard (the Civil War general who captured Jefferson Davis).[180] Neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta attended both college and medical school at U-M.[181] Clarence Darrow attended law school at U-M at a time when many lawyers did not receive any formal education.[167] Frank Murphy, who was mayor of Detroit, governor of Michigan, attorney general of the United States, and Supreme Court justice was also a graduate of the Law School.[167] Conservative pundit Ann Coulter is another U-M law school graduate (J.D. 1988).[167]
Vaughn R. Walker, a federal district judge in California who overturned the controversial California Proposition 8 in 2010 and ruled it unconstitutional, received his undergraduate degree from U-M in 1966.[182]
Some more notorious graduates of the University are 1910 convicted murderer (though perhaps wrongfully so)[183] Dr. Harvey Crippen,[167] late 19th-century American serial killer Herman Mudgett,[167] and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski.[167]
U-M athletes have starred in Major League Baseball, the National Football League and National Basketball Association as well as other professional sports. Notable among recent players is Tom Brady of the New England Patriots.[167] Three players have won college football's Heisman Trophy, awarded to the player considered the best in the nation: Tom Harmon (1940), Desmond Howard (1991) and Charles Woodson (1997).[150] Professional golfer John Schroeder and Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps also attended the University of Michigan, with the latter studying Sports Marketing and Management. Phelps also swam competitively for Club Wolverine, a swimming club associated with the university.[184] NHL players Marty Turco, Chris Summers, Max Pacioretty, Carl Hagelin, Brendan Morrison,[167] Jack Johnson, and Michael Cammalleri[167] all played for U-M's ice hockey team. Baseball Hall of Famer, George Sisler played baseball at the university, also Barry Larkin of the Cincinnati Reds.[167]
The university claims the only alumni association with a chapter on the moon, established in 1971 when the crew of Apollo 15 placed a charter plaque for a new U-M Alumni Association on the lunar surface.[167] The plaque reads: "The Alumni Association of The University of Michigan. Charter Number One. This is to certify that The University of Michigan Club of The Moon is a duly constituted unit of the Alumni Association and entitled to all the rights and privileges under the Association's Constitution." According to the Apollo 15 astronauts, several small U-M flags were brought on the missio