<p>… for those kids who are interested… even if I am not a grammaticist (as one can probably tell)…</p>
<p>‘Neither UCLA nor Cal place…’</p>
<p>s/b</p>
<p>‘Neither UCLA nor Cal places,’ </p>
<p>because the ‘nor’ separates the two nouns in question similar to an ‘or’ to a singular reference, as well as ‘neither,’ which is also singular. Likewise, the noun ‘none,’ is singular even if it references nothing.</p>