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The campus's original name was UC La Jolla before it was changed to UC San Diego. UCSD includes the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Among the several research institutes near UCSD and in the nearby Torrey Pines Science Park are The Scripps Research Institute, the Burnham Institute (formerly called the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation) and the Salk Institute.

Elementary schools include The Children's School , Integral Elementary School of La Jolla, Delphi Academy, All Hallows Academy, The Gillispie School, Evans, Torrey Pines Elementary , La Jolla Elementary , and Bird Rock Elementary . The public high school, La Jolla High School, is in the San Diego City Schools district.

With palm-lined streets, large estate homes in masterplanned and gated developments, La Jolla has become one of the most expensive neighborhoods in San Diego, boasting some of the county's wealthiest people.

The location is mentioned in the legendary Beach Boys song, 'Surfin' USA,' in the final verse with the line "All over La Jolla..." Ocean swimming at La Jolla Cove is very popular year round, where a swimming channel in the underwater park is demarcated and marked with buoys.

The origin of the name is obscure. Some say it is a corruption of ahoy, called out by sailors seeking the attention of people on the shore. Promoters of La Jolla claim it is from the Spanish la joya, meaning the jewel . A more likely though less glamorous theory is that La Jolla is a corruption of the Native American word Woholle, meaning hole in the mountain , referring to the caves in the north-facing cliffs next to La Jolla Cove Park.

Antisemitic housing practices in La Jolla can be traced back all the way back to 1926, when developers began construction on La Jolla Shores. In La Jolla Shores and La Jolla Hermosa, only people with pure Caucasian blood could own property, and housing notices included racist comments against Jews and other minority groups. Housing restrictions were thought to be enough to keep "undesirable" ethnic groups from living in La Jolla, until the 1948 Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer prohibited such restrictive covenants.

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