Historic Haines Hall - one of four original campus buildings and home of the Anthropology and Sociology Departments of the Division of Social Sciences - is undergoing seismic renovation as part of the College's capital plan. Seismic retrofitting will create new classrooms, teaching laboratories, a multimedia communications center, faculty offices and meeting rooms to provide what the Division needs to excel. But this plan will become reality only through private support, since the state of California is funding only the seismic work in Haines Hall. Technology-ready classrooms, adequate faculty office space, and much-needed meeting and conferencing areas call be built only through private philanthropy. And Haines Hall is only a start on what must be done m the latter half of the decade to keep the Division of Social Sciences in its position of world leadership.

Human diversity - past, present and future - comes to life intellectually in the College's Division of Social Sciences, where students and faculty join to explore behavior, culture, economics, history politics, society and other fundamentals of the human condition. The departments of the Division of Social Science, represent an extraordinarily distinguished group of academic units.

Cross-desciplinary synergy energizes the Social Sciences. Partnerships among the social, life, physical and medical sciences produce new insights about human evolution, communication and attitudes. Historians and economist, political scientist, and demographers work with neurologists, mathematicians, computer scientists and geneticists in ways unimaginable a decade ago.

As the Social Sciences have excelled at UCLA, they have also changed the paradigms of research by making interdisciplinary connections, building large research teams, utilizing information technology and dramatically increasing the scope and speed of research. In space designed and built decades ago, research at this level can no longer survive, much less grow. New research methods new technologies and new ways of teaching and learning are the academic imperatives that define the Division's very great needs for space.