California has done a lot better job retaining The Axe than they have secrets from the ChiComs.
Posted on 12/22/2005 3:54:55 PM PST by anymouse
In a surprise finish to months of battle, the University of California prevailed yesterday in its bid to run Los Alamos National Laboratory, the storied weapons research center in the mountains of New Mexico and the birthplace of the atomic bomb.
The university teamed with the Bechtel Corporation, the world's largest construction and engineering company, and two other industrial giants to win the contract. It is the first time the laboratory's management has been put up for bidding. Federal officials announced the winner in Washington yesterday.
Most analysts expected that the contract would be wrenched away from the University of California, which has run Los Alamos since it opened more than 62 years ago, by a rival team headed by Lockheed Martin, the world's largest arms maker, and the University of Texas. Both Lockheed and the University of Texas have close ties to the White House.
But the University of California overcame not only whatever advantages its competitors offered but also the government's longstanding discontent with its management.
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More x42 legacy.
Good news for the ChiComs...
Surprising indeed. The University of California has shown a complete inability to manage the labs or keep secrets, and probably is among those most responsible for giving most of our nuclear secrets to the Communist Chinese.
Is this Gerald Parsky's work, maybe? He heads the California Board of Regents, has contributed large sums to the Republican party, and seems to have a close connection to Bush and Rove.
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regbios/parsky.html
Since when do we trust California with anything?
I think they are only slightly better than France, but only on account of Arnold.
Makes me think this was given to them 'cause of some kinda deal with Arnold....rats...I wanted it to come to Texas. Texans can be trusted to keep secrets.
How can we allow a left wing organization from a left wing state run anything. We should move all government work out of their state.
you can blast our politics but not our scientific community....UC Berkelely just itself is the number ranked public university in the world and even beats out MIT, Stanford and Harvard with the most top ten rated grad programs... where do you think most of nuclear weapons were designed and conceieved????.at Lawrence Livermore or Los Alamos run by the UC system since WWII........or would you like to give them back????....don't generalize TV politics to the entire state as most do here anyway...it is unnecessary.....and the mgmt problems have been addressed with the knucklehead mostly exonerated for alot it....just a wake up call....no more confused then let's say.....Congress.......
Works for me if you include federal taxes for providing border security that doesn't exist.
UC has done just fine for the last 62 years with some hiccups in the past few years....Univerisity of Texas is a fine University but can't hold a candle to let's say UC Berkelely in the scientific front....and if you don't believe me, go look at top ranked grad programs rated on US World News and Reports....their annual ratings.....the better system won.....ok, not withstanding the politics of Calif which ARE crazy
Our skullduggery is the only thing you Texans can be jealous about! :)
Merry Christmas neighbor!
Surprised it's not outsourced to China. /s
if you don't believe me, go look at top ranked grad programs rated on US World News and Reports
I've learned NOT TO TRUST most of what I read...especially a liberal rag.
haha....you mean you dont' trust what you read either...hey, maybe I'm biased but I have facts to back me up....you are siting opinion just as much saying secrets aren't safe here....yeah.....good old Berkelely who actually discovered MOST Of the transuranium elements including Plutonium..and yes, most of the Manhatten Project discussion prior to development occured at Berkeley's Lawarence labs....you just don't like Calif for what ever reason, most likely what you see on the news....that is not representative of the entire state....sorry
Sorry Texas.
Oh geez. More DNC moles. This time in the Los Alamos National Laboratory. No telling what kind of leaks will be coming out of this joint now.
California has done a lot better job retaining The Axe than they have secrets from the ChiComs.
I've got family close to San Jose...and I do understand most of California isn't like Hollyweirdo. I was just giving you are hard time. In fact, California is more red than blue. But don't you know they call California the land of the fruits and nuts. LOL... ;o)
haha.....yup, we call it that here too....SF has the fruits and LA has the nuts....thank god they don't get out much......have a great xmas
THE STANFORD AXE
EARLY CALIFORNIA TRADITIONS AND THE AXE CAPTURE
By Brick Morse, California, '96
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A university without traditions is poor indeed.
Traditions have come and gone at the University of California. The college still has its traditions which have survived the best of years, but it seems to me that the most interesting traditions have gone the way of all flesh.
Three California traditions of the past stand out in my memory, the Burial of Bourdon, the Mortarboard Rush and the Stanford Axe. The first named was a grand spectacle and a free-for-all scramble between the two lower classes. Such a rough-house affair could not survive as the University became larger. The Mortarboard Rush was kayoed by a faculty edict and the Axe tradition came to a sudden and violent end recently when Stanford regained the lost emblem.
The Axe tradition is the most important to the younger generation, but first let us hear something about the older traditions. The Burial of Bourdon was a solemn ceremonial staged by the Freshman class at the end of their college year.
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