Source: A UCLA PR release at https://newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/8-things-never-knew-ucla-chancellor-gene-block.
For no particular reason, yours truly wondered whatever happened to former UCLA Chancellor Block who left office very quietly for reasons well known to blog readers. I found the above item in searching including his featured "advice to live by."
Merriam-Webster gives various definitions of irony. Here's one:
Incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result.
Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony.
Block is currently listed as a faculty member of the UCLA Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior and as Chancellor-Emeritus in the UCLA directory. A Google search for news about him stops with items shortly before he stepped down at the end of July 2024. Basically, he is now remembered for paralysis in the face of the events that started around the time his profile was being prepared for the UCLA Magazine.
A very sad career ending. Had he stepped down a year earlier, history would have been much kinder. Timing is (almost) everything. But decision making is also important.
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