Make UCLA the biggest Ron Paul Rally ever (Graphic Resources)

[justinpagewood]

We've got a huge audience of people from the greater Los Angeles area. If you're from Southern California, spread the word as much as you can. People really change their minds when they hear Ron Paul speak in person.

Here are some visual resources to help spread the word:

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[socal]

Does anybody who lives in the area know where a good place to park nearby is ?

[sailingaway]

Does anybody who lives in the area know where a good place to park nearby is ?

I've been thinking about that. Parking in Westwood is always an issue. There is paid parking on campus (they will tell you at the kiosk as you enter where to go, if you ask at most UCLA entrances, but I haven't been to that entrance since I was a kid and we used to go swimming there. Back THEN there was parking.) but with a lot of people at once.... at least it is a weeknight. I'll think about it and if I have a good idea I'll put it into the California forum.

[tsai3904]

Does anybody who lives in the area know where a good place to park nearby is ?

Here's a map of UCLA:
http://www.ucla.edu/map/ucla-campus-map.pdf

The event will be held at the Sunset Canyon Rec Center, which is in B2.

There's a parking structure right next to it (the PRC in a circle). I think it's $3/hour. It's not a huge parking lot so if that gets filled up, you can park in Lot 11, which is in B3. I think for Lot 11, you can only pay for a full day and it's $11.

There are other structures further away (probably a 10-15 min walk up hill to get to the event) or you can try your luck finding street parking on Veteran Ave.

[sailingaway]

This says there is $8 parking at the center itself for the water polo games: http://www.uclabruins.com/genrel/062200aad.html

another post for the recreation center said the lot there is for recreational vehicles (probably why there is an 'R' on the map after the p for parking garage) and seems to think it is adequate for water polo viewing, so it might be big enough, given this will be at night. You can't park on Sunset there, though if people think there may be street parking, and BelAir is across the street on Sunset, at that part, so it is either ucla lots or walk a fair distance.

[Christopher David]

Does anybody who lives in the area know where a good place to park nearby is ?

Living nearby my best advice is to get there EARLY. Parking is difficult enough as it is. Typical UCLA school night + thousands of Ron Paul folks = parking nightmare.

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School is IN session. What TIME is the event?

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Best bets for parking are gonna be "Lot 32" in Westwood (a.k.a. THE VETERAN LOT) between Gayley & Veteran and, ironically, the Federal Building at Wilshire & Veteran, with entrances on both Veteran & Sepulveda.

Take that with salt all the way around the rim, tho, 'cuz G-Wohl sez he is "convinced" that I am "somehow a troll attempting to make the rest of us look completely batshit insane. He's been at it for so long that he can't possibly be in this for the right reasons... "

[evilfunnystuff]

I don't think this will top 5,200. :(

http://www.studentactivities.ucla.edu/facilities.htm

SUNSET CANYON RECREATION CENTER
Buenos Ayres Room (capacity 125), Santa Fe Room (capacity 30), Vista Room (capacity 90), Outside Amphitheater (capacity 1200), and picnic area.

[sailingaway]

I don't think this will top 5,200. :(

http://www.studentactivities.ucla.edu/facilities.htm

it isn't wait listed yet. They won't think of moving it somewhere bigger unless they run out of space by enough of a margin that they know they would fill a bigger venue. It just went up yesterday, though. Berkeley is waitlisted at this point, and it went up on Friday.

However, the ampitheater itself may fit 1200 but there is a grassy area behind it that might be the 'picnic area' which would fit a couple thousand, I would think, standing. Problem is, they report it at the stated capacity as if that is all that were there.

http://cra.smugmug.com/photos/577554225_eTGoZ-M.jpg
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I don't think this will top 5,200. :(

http://www.studentactivities.ucla.edu/facilities.htm


UCLA has well over 25,000 undergraduate and well over 10,000 graduate students.

UCLA is a State (formerly inexpensive, now expensive) rather than Private (formerly expensive, now prohibitively expensive) University.

If Ron Paul can't pull FIFTEEN PERCENT of a non-elite student body, then what're we TALKING about?

We're talking about April FOURTH on April SECOND, I know that. Does HE make his plans last-minute, or do his people drop the ball?

"Batshit insane" as this sounds, UCLA students are perhaps MOST likely to line up behind Ron Paul if Mitt Romney is presented as the USC candidate. Unless you have experience with another INTENSE RIVALRY, you just can't appreciate how LOADED it is to say: MITT ROMNEY IS FINE FOR USC PEOPLE, BUT HE IS NOT FINE FOR UCLA PEOPLE.

[InTradePro]

With 18,000 people and together chant "President Paul" for 2 mins solid, by the end a Paul presidency will be assured.

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It's LOS ANGELES.

Perchance Ron Paul has a Celebrity who will INTRODUCE him?

Has an AD been placed in tomorrow's and Wednesday's campus paper, "Daily Bruin", with other notices placed in the Personals?

I trust SIGNS about the event have sprung up all over the campus AND Westwood...or will tonight and tomorrow?

[sailingaway]

This is specifically about parking for the recreation center --> https://www.postdoc.ucla.edu/Location_and_Parking_at_SunsetRec

that's a good question about the Bruin, though. I would think the Bruin would have an article on it, but there should be an ad. I have no idea what Youth For Ron Paul has already done, though.

[sailingaway]

UCLA has well over 25,000 undergraduate and well over 10,000 graduate students.

UCLA is a State (formerly inexpensive, now expensive) rather than Private (formerly expensive, now prohibitively expensive) University.

If Ron Paul can't pull FIFTEEN PERCENT of a non-elite student body, then what're we TALKING about?

We're talking about April FOURTH on April SECOND, I know that. Does HE make his plans last-minute, or do his people drop the ball?

"Batshit insane" as this sounds, UCLA students are perhaps MOST likely to line up behind Ron Paul if Mitt Romney is presented as the USC candidate. Unless you have experience with another INTENSE RIVALRY, you just can't appreciate how LOADED it is to say: MITT ROMNEY IS FINE FOR USC PEOPLE, BUT HE IS NOT FINE FOR UCLA PEOPLE.

re highlighted, I wondered about that. They could have just formulated their california strategy and are looking for volunteers hence those who would drop everything and go -- OR they could be sending a signal that Romney may fill a place where his organization can track people down with weeks of planning, but all Ron has to do is show up....

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This is specifically about parking for the recreation center --> https://www.postdoc.ucla.edu/Location_and_Parking_at_SunsetRec

that's a good question about the Bruin, though. I would think the Bruin would have an article on it, but there should be an ad. I have no idea what Youth For Ron Paul has already done, though.


Rec Center parking is the best/closest. If the rally is little, perhaps it is enough. If the rally is BIG, remember Westwood & the Federal Building for parking. Perhaps most Attendees are local enough to be familiar with the IN's & OUT's of parking in this neck o' the woods. Only know that UCLA & Westwood do NOT constitute easy-breezy oh-that-didn't-work-I'll-just-do-this parking propositions. The Rec Center is on the SUNSET side of the campus; Westwood is on the OPPOSITE side. Some one-way streets. Some LOT FULL signs.

ALLOW AMPLE TIME FOR PARKING is a common refrain.

[sailingaway]

Rec Center parking is the best/closest. If the rally is little, perhaps it is enough. If the rally is BIG, remember Westwood & the Federal Building for parking.

Yeah, but it is on the other side of campus. I like it too, though.

[tsai3904]

Rec Center parking is the best/closest. If the rally is little, perhaps it is enough. If the rally is BIG, remember Westwood & the Federal Building for parking.

The Rec Center parking is best/closest but it probably holds 200 cars max.

If that lot fills up, you can try Lot 11, 4, 6, or 8 or look for street parking on Veteran or Gayley.

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The Rec Center parking is best/closest but it probably holds 200 cars max.

If that lot fills up, you can try Lot 11, 4, 6, or 8 or look for street parking on Veteran or Gayley.


Street parking on Veteran and Gayley is likelier than winning the lottery, but it's not a PARKING PLAN if you have an appointed time by which to "win" a space.

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Westwood Village on the south, Sunset Boulevard on the North, Gayley on the West, Hilgard on the East.

GAYLEY = FRATERNITY ROW

HILGARD = SORORITY ROW

Not the ENTIRE boulevards, but it's pretty easy to tell where Sorority Houses end and residential houses begin. It's REAL easy to tell where FRATERNITY Row begins and ends.

It would probably take longer to CROSS THE CAMPUS, than it would take to drop flyers at every door of UCLA's quite active GREEK "System".

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I can easily imagine Morning DeeJays MARK & BRIAN giving Ron Paul a plug on KLOS.

Do they KNOW about it?

[Carson]

Need to line up a band to play before he comes on.

P.S. I thought about it some more in another thread on the tour topic.

Need bands to open with.


Sure that might draw in a lot of people that aren't already hep to Ron Paul but isn't that the whole point?

Music is the message of love for the young. Once the band has gotten everyone in the mood...Ron Paul comes out and wins those that haven't found out about how it feels being part of what's happening.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?369948-Ron-Paul-California-campus-tour!-UCBerkeley-UCLA-amp-CSU-Chico-State-back-2-back-2-back!

[Drex]

I'm getting excited and I don't even live in Cali! lol!

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Need to line up a band to play before he comes on.


And AFTER, so they stay.

[anaconda]

It's LOS ANGELES.

Perchance Ron Paul has a Celebrity who will INTRODUCE him?

Has an AD been placed in tomorrow's and Wednesday's campus paper, "Daily Bruin", with other notices placed in the Personals?

I trust SIGNS about the event have sprung up all over the campus AND Westwood...or will tonight and tomorrow?

Why not Vince Vaugn?

[anaconda]

Here's a map of UCLA:
http://www.ucla.edu/map/ucla-campus-map.pdf

The event will be held at the Sunset Canyon Rec Center, which is in B2.

There's a parking structure right next to it (the PRC in a circle). I think it's $3/hour. It's not a huge parking lot so if that gets filled up, you can park in Lot 11, which is in B3. I think for Lot 11, you can only pay for a full day and it's $11.

There are other structures further away (probably a 10-15 min walk up hill to get to the event) or you can try your luck finding street parking on Veteran Ave.

This says it seats 500. Maybe I've got the wrong place..

http://www.recreation.ucla.edu/insidepage.aspx?uid=aff34498-33e7-473a-9e86-6da88659f7de

[sailingaway]

Why not Vince Vaugn?

RON is the celebrity at a Ron Paul rally. the kids might not know who Vaugn is, imho

[sailingaway]

Why not Vince Vaugn?

There is a big grassy area behind the bleacher/benches. I put the pictures in other threads.

http://cra.smugmug.com/photos/577554225_eTGoZ-M.jpg
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This is so corny, I can't even believe I'm posting it, but I'm also pretty sure it will really RESONATE.

UCLA has a "cheer" called the UCLA 8-CLAP.

EIGHT CLAPS at the beginning, mainly to give people who might be watching the game instead of the cheerleaders time to realize it's HAPPENING.

Eight claps, to gather the assembly.

U! clap, clap, clap (4 counts)
C! clap, clap, clap
L! clap, clap, clap
A! clap, clap, clap

U-C-L-A-fight-fight-fight!

Sounds silly, I know, but it's a BIG THING at UCLA, and NO student at that school doesn't recognize it.

Too, you have to realize that Babe Cheerleaders thrust up one pompon with each letter as it is chanted individually, then "box" BOTH pompons rapidly into the air on U-C-L-A!

P-A-U-L works with the UCLA 8-Clap.

What would be HILARIOUS is big, burly GUYS being the cheerleaders. Or yeah, failing that, a MIX of the supporters I am routinely told come from from "all walks of life"...tho ALL WALKS seem not to make it into many Ron Paul campaign photos.


Demo, lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kVKKMcHVLs

DRESS FOR SUCCESS: Blue & Gold. Not the navy blue of Cal. Not royal blue. Not baby blue...toddler blue? Robin's egg blue? Hell, you've seen the jerseys.

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P-A-U-L works with the UCLA 8-Clap.

What would be HILARIOUS is big, burly GUYS being the cheerleaders. Or yeah, failing that, a MIX of the supporters I am routinely told come from from "all walks of life"...tho ALL WALKS seem not to make it into many Ron Paul campaign photos.


Demo, lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kVKKMcHVLs

DRESS FOR SUCCESS: Blue & Gold. Not the navy blue of Cal. Not royal blue. Not baby blue...toddler blue? Robin's egg blue? Hell, you've seen the jerseys.


UCLA = UBER DIVERSE = UBER PHOTO OP.

It is completely understandable that adoring fans would go for THE SHOT OF THEIR MAN...a keepsake, maybe make the front page of RPF, maybe go VIRAL. But what Ron Paul needs are CROWD SHOTSS, and lots of 'em. (Helpful too, should charges of Electoral Fraud be formalized.) Ron Paul ESPECIALLY needs crowd photos that don't look conspicuously WHITE & MALE.

It will almost certainly be a "better mix than usual." Picture, thousand words, you know the drill. More pictures of PEOPLE IN THE CROWD, rather than more pictures of Ron Paul.

[socal]

They just changed the venue,

Due to the overwhelming RSVPs for this event, we've moved to a larger location.
The town hall with Ron Paul will now take place at Straus Stadium at the Los Angeles Tennis Center (LATC).

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=420+Charles+E.+Young+Drive+West+Los+Angeles ,+CA+90095

[cheapseats]

They just changed the venue,

Due to the overwhelming RSVPs for this event, we've moved to a larger location.
The town hall with Ron Paul will now take place at Straus Stadium at the Los Angeles Tennis Center (LATC).

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=420+Charles+E.+Young+Drive+West+Los+Angeles ,+CA+90095


Closer to off-campus parking.

For kicks, call RIGHT now and ask whether DRAKE Stadium is available...just in case. People talk.

[socal]

Closer to off-campus parking.

For kicks, call RIGHT now and ask whether DRAKE Stadium is available...just in case. People talk.
Capacity of Strauss Stadium = 5,800. I bet they can fill that easily, need more like 10K imo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Tennis_Center

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Tennis_Center.jpg

[evilfunnystuff]

They just changed the venue,

Due to the overwhelming RSVPs for this event, we've moved to a larger location.
The town hall with Ron Paul will now take place at Straus Stadium at the Los Angeles Tennis Center (LATC).

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=420+Charles+E.+Young+Drive+West+Los+Angeles ,+CA+90095

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Tennis_Center

The main grandstand surrounds three courts, and has a capacity of 5,800 spectators. There are eight lighted, hard-surface courts at the center, which can hold 10,000 spectators

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p4sJLCUl4Ag/TsaqW0E0FdI/AAAAAAAADlA/YpwKso2pTrQ/s1600/awesomo.jpg

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If you find yourself at a loss for words for how great Ron Paul is, tell 'em that YOU feel about Ron Paul the same way UCLA felt and will always feel about John Wooden.

[Substitute other beloved Coaches/Players on other campuses...skipping fuckin' Joe Paterno.]

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In Westwood, the intersection of WEYBURN & BROXTON, between Westwood Blvd. & Gayley, is a HAPPENING PLACE.

If anyone has the time and the flyers, or the time and the WORD OF MOUTH, people stream steadily in and out of the Fox Theater, the Bruin Theater, California Pizza Kitchen and Jerry's Deli.

[DBJl4l4]

Ron Paul at UCLA with 12,000 friends.

[DBJl4l4]

Tonight

[DBJl4l4]

Rocked

[DBJl4l4]

Ron Paul at UCLA with 12,000 friends.
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[DBJl4l4]

Ron Paul at UCLA with 12,000 friends.
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[Carson]

Ron Paul at UCLA with 12,000 friends.

Nothing quite like a man with a plan. Good job and picture DBJl4l4.

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UCLA graduate, right here, and I most certainly DID do some work on this event that EXCEEDED EVEN RAISED EXPECTATIONS.

Not a LOT, not as much as I COULD have, but then this one-of-several threads WAS launched TWO DAYS before the event.