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Orfield said that UCLA has already offered significant financial resources for the Civil Rights Project, which has relied on funding from outside sources for the past 11 years...
Though Orfield said his experiences at Harvard have been largely positive, he cited a larger number of faculty members studying civil rights issues, more financial resources for the Civil Rights Project, and a more diverse faculty as some of the advantages of moving to UCLA...
Orfield called UCLA a “more conducive atmosphere to studying civil rights” because more UCLA faculty members are involved in civil rights research, while there are “very few senior faculty members at Harvard who have real experience in civil rights litigation and research...
According to the UCLA Diversity Statistics monograph for 2005-2006, 6.9 percent of UCLA female faculty members are minorities, while 14.9 percent of male faculty members are minorities. The monograph counts African American, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American faculty members as minorities...
Researchers still don't understand why severely depressed teenagers are more likely than adults to commit suicide while taking antidepressant drugs like Paxil, but a major study out of UCLA concluded that the drugs do more good than harm. Starting in the early 1960s, the annual U.S. suicide rate held fairly steady at 12 to 14 instances per 100,000--until 1988, when the first of a new generation of antidepressants, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, was introduced. The suicide rate has been falling ever since, to around 10 per 100,000. The investigators estimate that nearly 34,000 lives...