A Sampling of Clips for Aug. 26, 2010

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China Banks Cut Back on Loans to Local-Government Entities
The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 26 -- China's big banks are starting to cut back lending to local-government projects, walking a delicate line between addressing risks to the financial system and keeping up the flow of money to the infrastructure boom that supports the nation's economy.  (Quotes Barry Naughton, a professor at UC San Diego’s School of International Relations and Pacific Studies). More

The Humanities for Love, Not Money
The New York Times, Aug. 25 -- When the renowned educators Mortimer J. Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins first decided to expand their Great Books course beyond the University of Chicago’s walls, they recruited some of Chicago’s most prominent businessmen. In what was called the Fat Men’s Great Books Course, the executives and their wives started meeting every other Friday evening in the fall of 1943 to discuss Plato, Shakespeare and Goethe.  The course eventually evolved into the Basic Program in Liberal Education and is now run out of the Graham School of General Studies, the university’s continuing education arm. And despite the recent recession, enrollment has increased in recent years, said Daniel Shannon, dean of the school.  (Quotes Mary Walshok, associate vice chancellor of UC San Diego’s Extended Studies and Public Programs) More

A Liberal's Legacy
The Washington Post, Aug. 26 -- He stayed true to his liberal ideals throughout the post-war era and fought against the anti-communist demagogy of the 1950s, battled for workers rights and racial justice and opposed the Vietnam War. Lawyer Joseph L. Rauh left his stamp on the nation’s law and politics, as Michael E. Parrish describes in “Citizen Rauh,” published this month by the University of Michigan Press. Here, Parrish, a professor of history at the UC San Diego, outlines Rauh’s progressive vision and its continuing legacy. More

Sign of the Times: Deaf Find Their Voices via Mobile Video and Apps
Scientific American, Aug. 26 -- Wireless gadgets have changed the way nearly everyone communicates, but one group has benefited more than others: the deaf.  For those who cannot make a voice call, texting and video, in particular, have not only opened them up to the hearing world and to each other, but also allowed them to use American Sign Language (ASL), often their native language.  (Quotes Tom Humphries, associate professor in education studies at UC San Diego) More

Kayakers Training for Trip to London
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 26 -- At the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, the U.S. women’s kayak team is preparing for the 2012 Games in London.  Carrie Johnson, Maggie Hogan, Ariel Farrar-Wellman and Emily Vinson are locked in the challenge to get there.  They can qualify at this week’s World Championships in Poznan, Poland.  (Carrie Johnson is a UC San Diego alumna). More

Group Grants Funds for Arts Project
La Jolla Light, Aug. 26 -- The La Jolla Community Foundation is launching a community art program this week with a work by Kim MacConnel being installed on a Girard Avenue office building. (MacConnel is a professor of art at UC San Diego). More

Emergence by Fanny Howe
The Litterateur Magazine, Aug. 24 -- Boston-born Fanny Howe is read as an experimental poet; she is located on the far side of the tracks in English language poetry’s continuing divide between the establishment and progressive poetry worlds. Emergence may not be a collection of new poems but it will be gratefully received by both long-time admirers and newcomers eager to find out more. It comprises of nine poems of varying lengths from the 1970s to the 1990s, which are for one reason or another, undeservedly out-of-print (mostly). In any case the poems that make up this volume are not included in the one widely available Selected Poems (2000). (Fanny Howe is professor emerita in literature at UC San Diego). More

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