Facts and figures pertaining to all things Oxy
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Wingspan, in feet, of an architectural-grade mud model of an MQ-1 predator drone installed in Thorne Plaza in March by Los Angeles-based artist collective Finishing School, in collaboration with artists Nadia Afghani and Matt Fisher. The exhibit, titled We Will Show You Fear in a Handful of Dust, was designed "to trigger an investigation of this particular weapon's technics, with the aim of proposing and modeling a possible act of resistance to the authoritarian machinery that powers it," according to the artists' manifesto. The drone was deinstalled May 9.
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Faculty members awarded tenure this spring and promoted to the rank of associate professor. The group includes Michael Gasper (history), Shana Goffredi (biology), David Kasunic (music), Janet Scheel (physics), La Mont Terry '98 M'99 (education), and Andrew Udit (chemistry).
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Pages of 20th-century newspapers digitized so far through the Oxy-based Northeast Los Angeles Newspapers Project, thanks to a $35,000 grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. That's 2 percent of the approximately 341,000 pages published by 29 papers in Eagle Rock, Highland Park, Mount Washington, El Sereno, and surrounding communities.
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