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Category Archives: UCLA
UCLA and the Logic of the Three-Organism Machine
Deans, department chairs, and senior faculty at UCLA do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking languages of Serving the Public Good, Equity and Excellence, World-Class Research for California, Health Equity for Los Angeles, … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power at UCLA Medical School
High-status actors at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine do not compete for authority by openly saying they want power. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as protecting patients, widening access to care, advancing medical excellence, … Continue reading
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Decoding Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller
Written with AI: Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller is best understood as a boundary negotiator in a hostile environment whose power came from credibility under pressure rather than institutional control. Campus Judaism is a weak alliance space. Membership is transient. Authority is … Continue reading
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Decoding UCLA’s Economics Department
I took two Micro-Economics classes at UCLA in 1988-89 from Russell Roberts and one class in European economic history from Earlene Craver, the wife of Axel Leijonhufvud (he substituted for her once, and wow!). To understand this department, you have … Continue reading
LAT: Cedars-Sinai didn’t act on four decades of complaints about gynecologist’s sexual abuse, lawsuits allege
The Los Angeles Times reports: Hundreds of former patients have accused Barry Brock of sexually abusing them while they were in his care. More than a dozen say that Cedars-Sinai personnel ignored their complaints, according to lawsuits. Cedars-Sinai terminated Brock’s … Continue reading
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Decoding UCLA
To decode UCLA through the lens of David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory, one must view the university not as a neutral site of education or “abstract values,” but as a massive network of strategic coalitions. Pinsof, who earned his Ph.D. from … Continue reading
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Decoding UCLA Basketball Coach John Wooden
John Wooden serves as a high-status prestige anchor for a specific alliance of American leadership and traditionalist values. In David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory framework, the “Pyramid of Success” is not just a coaching manual; it is a “sacred” vocabulary used … Continue reading
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Israel’s stunning success blowing up Hezbollah terrorist leaders through their pagers (9-17-24)
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Report: ‘A Failed Medical School’: How Racial Preferences, Supposedly Outlawed in California, Have Persisted at UCLA
Washington Free Beacon: Up to half of UCLA medical students now fail basic tests of medical competence. Whistleblowers say affirmative action, illegal in California since 1996, is to blame. Long considered one of the best medical schools in the world, … Continue reading
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UCLA Pro-Palestine Protests (5-23-24)
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