La Jolla Village News, September 30th, 2010

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La Jolla has most car prowls in the city BY CLAIRE HARLIN | VILLAGE NEWS It usually happens in less than a minute: Crook approaches vehicle. Crook shatters window, often with the porcelain from an everyday sparkplug. Crook quietly makes off with valuables in broad daylight. This event is known in police-speak as a car prowl and recent police statistics show the La Jolla area has more

instances of this crime than any other neighborhood in San Diego. A report of all crimes by neighborhood between January and July shows that the police beat stretching from Turquoise Street to Torrey Pines State Park west of Interstate 5 had 268 instances of car prowling. Close behind La Jolla was University City, with 261 instances of car prowling, followed by Pacif-

ic Beach with 246. “The main reason it happens is because people use their vehicles as storage lockers,” said Alan Alvarez, a public information officer for the San Diego Police Department’s Northern Division. “Whatever is there is whatever they’re going to take.” Alvarez said it is common for people

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UCSD’s 50-year journey to architectural awe hen Stanley Chodorow came to teach history at the University of California, San Diego in 1968, the campus area consisted of grass, bushes and fields of, well, nothing. “It was just snakes and rabbits up there in UTC,” said the emeritus professor, who still teaches at the university. “When it rained, it was just a big mud field.” UCSD celebrates its 50th birthday this year, and the institution has come a long way in terms of visual appearance. What began as a compact, bucolic research institution in 1960 has developed into a nearly 30,000-strong university with not only a repertoire of scientific achievements, but an adventurous architectural style that has gained the atten-

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A sign at the La Jolla Shores beach parking lot warns beach-goers to lock their vehicles. This parking lot on Camino del Oro is a car-prowling hot spot, according to police reports. CLAIRE HARLIN | Village News

UCSD 50th anniversary upcoming events

Architectural landmarks on the University of California, San Diego campus include the the Samuel H. Scripps Auditorium (top), Atkinson Hall (above) and Geisel Library (right).

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tion of a leading design book publisher. The Princeton Architectural Press recently released “University of California, San Diego: The Campus Guide,” a photography-driven book that details the evolution of UCSD’s look over the years. “The book is a compendium of UCSD’s history, architecture and legacy,” said Boone Hellmann, UCSD’s head architect. “It’s a nice way to put everything into a box and tie a book around it. It’s like a photo album of the university’s life.” UCSD is also kicking off “UCSD by Design,” a yearlong series of lectures and discussions, on Sept. 30. Hellmann is, in large part, the man behind the bricks and mortar. He came to work at UCSD 25 years ago, when the campus was getting ready for its first SEE UCSD, Page 2

UCSD head architect Boone Hellmann stands in front of the Computer Sciences Building in the Jacobs School of Engineering. Hellmann has steered the development of UCSD for 25 years.

• Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. — UCSD by Design lecture: Kurt W. Forster, founder of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Sherwood Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary Art, 700 Prospect St., free • Oct. 1 at 10 a.m. — UCSD by Design moderated discussion: Kurt W. Forster, UCSD Student Services Center Multipurpose Room, corner of Rupertus Way and Myers Drive, free • Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. — Bay Area Alumni 50th anniversary Night in Napa, Castello di Amorosa Castle and Winery in Calistoga, information at ssterner@ucsd.edu, $50 • Oct. 11 at 7:30 a.m. — Institute for Genomic Medicine Inaugural Symposium: Keynote Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., National Human Genome Research Institute director, Atkinson Hall, corner of Voigt Drive and Equality Lane • Oct. 22 at 12:15 p.m. — $50K for 50 years: 15th annual 5K Run/Walk for Scholars, UCSD North Campus Field near RIMAC, more info at http://5k.ucsd.edu/ • Oct. 23 at noon — Homecoming and Family Weekend Barbeque and Beer Garden, UCSD Warren Field, $10 (free for athletes) • Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. — Helen Edison lecture: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of the Harvard University W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, UCSD Price Center Ballroom West, 9500 Gilman Drive, free • Oct. 28 at 5:30 p.m. — Physical Sciences 50th Anniversary Lecture: Apollo Legacy, physicist Tom Murphy, UCSD Natural Sciences Auditorium, corner of Scholars Drive and La Jolla Shores Drive, free • Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. — UCSD by Design lecture: art historian John Walsh, Sherwood Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary Art, 700 Prospect St., free • Nov. 5 at 10 a.m. — UCSD by Design moderated discussion: art historian John Walsh, UCSD Student Services Center Multipurpose Room, corner of Rupertus Way and Myers Drive, free


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