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Vandalism at the Ronald Reagan Medical Center

Fri Jul 02, 2004 at 10:57:22 AM PDT

I work at UCLA and the old medical center was damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake and a new hospital is being built.    It will be named the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.  There hasn't been a whole lot of publicity about the name because Reagan was neither a friend to the University of California as governor or to health care in general.  There is an article in the Daily Bruin that explains why it was named after Reagan (basically, friends gave the UC $150m)

http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=29642

Right after Reagan died, two of these signs were erected in front of the construction site, one on the Westwood Plaza side (in the middle of campus) and the other on Gayley Ave, which faces a public street.  

I drove down Gayley this morning (not part of my normal driving route) and the sign had been turned around to show bare plywood.  I don't know why, I imagine it was either the bad press about the name or it had been vandalized.  There are frat houses across the street, after all.

But spraypainted on the plywood in huge letters was:
"Future home of the Bill Clinton Medical Center"

Ah, a vandal with a political bent :-)

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