University Senior High School (Uni) -- Home of the Wildcats (formerly the Warriors) The campus also holds Indian Springs Continuation High School.
University Senior High School, commonly known as Uni, is a secondary school located in West Los Angeles, a district in Los Angeles, California, United States near the border of Santa Monica. University High is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The school contains the Serra Springs, a sacred site of the Tongva–Gabrieleño people and a registered California Historical Landmar
k. While under construction it was known as Sawtelle High School, but it opened as Warren G. Harding High School when built in 1924, after U.S. President Warren G. Harding, who had recently died. The school was renamed in 1929 after UCLA moved its campus from East Hollywood to Westwood, and the reputation of former President Harding had declined after the Teapot Dome scandal.[citation needed] The name University is supposed to have originated because it became a site where teachers-in-training from nearby UCLA worked as assistant teachers. The original Administration building was designed by the firm Russell & Alpaugh and the construction process began in 1923. The style which was chosen recalls the Romanesque of Northern Italy. The Administration building once displayed an octagonal tower and a portico, but these features were toppled in the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake. An original cafeteria building was located where the current cafeteria and theater stand today. Although the gymnasium and a beautiful and widely admired auditorium were condemned following the 1971 Sylmar earthquake, the school's original main building from 1924 remains in use. The music building and gym (rebuilt in the early 1980s) have been scheduled to be taken down because they sit on a fault line and therefore against district policy. As of July 2010, the music building is gone. Music classes have been moved to another unused room near the top of the school. The gym was still in use while, on the south end of the campus, in what was formerly a student parking lot, a new gym facility was under construction in 2010. Uni one of very few pre-World War II high schools in Los Angeles which have been partially spared by three major earthquakes since its inception. Because the main building presents a very traditional and dignified appearance, with weathered brick and arched doorways, the campus is popular with film crews. One-third of its class of 1942 did not graduate because of the internment of Japanese-Americans. In fall 2007, some neighborhoods zoned to Hamilton High School were rezoned to University High School.
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