A Sampling of Clips for February 24, 2010

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Student Media Groups at UC-San Diego
Lose Funds Amid Controversy Over Race and Speech
Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 23 -- The head of the student government at UCSD has temporarily suspended funds for all of the university's student-run media outlets after a broadcast prompted new outrage in a controversy over a party mocking Black History Month. More

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UC San Diego Teach-In Held After Offensive Party
KESQ, Palm Springs, Calif. Feb. 24 - UCSD is planning a campus teach-in in the wake of a student party that used a ghetto theme to mockingly commemorate Black History Month. More

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Happy People More Likely to Try Something New
BusinessWeek, Feb. 23 -- If you're feeling sad, you're more likely to crave your favorite comfort food than exotic fare at a restaurant you've never eaten at before, because a negative mood makes the familiar more attractive, new psychological research from UCSD suggests. More

Waiting to Inhale: Deep-Ocean Low-Oxygen
Zones Spreading to Shallower Coastal Waters
Scientific American, Feb. 23 – A plague of oxygen-deprived waters from the deep ocean is creeping up over the continental shelves off the Pacific Northwest and forcing marine species there to relocate or die. (Quotes Lisa Levin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Reserves 'Win–Win' for Fish and Fishermen
Nature, Feb. 23 -- Although fisherman routinely fight bans on fishing, studies indicate that the creation of protected marine reserves in key areas can both raise the profits of fishermen and boost fish populations. (Quotes Paul Dayton, a marine biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla) More

Toyota Chief in Trial by Fire Before Congress
The New York Times, Feb. 23 -- Now it is up to Akio Toyoda, grandson of the company’s founder, to steer his family’s battered company back on course. (Quotes Ulrike Schaede, professor of Japanese business at UCSD) More

Sleepy Heads
The Economist, Feb. 24 -- The business practices of England’s lineal descendant, America, will have you in the office from nine in the morning to five in the evening, if not longer. Much of the world, though, prefers to take a siesta. And research presented to the AAAS meeting in San Diego, including by UCSD researchers, suggests it may be right to do so. It has already been established that those who siesta are less likely to die of heart disease. More

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Should Scientists 'Sniff Out' Corporate Carbon Emissions?
Telgraph, U.K., Feb. 23 -- You don’t need an expensive, high-tech, virtual nose to smell something funny going on with the way companies measure their carbon dioxide emissions. A group of scientists from University of London and UCSD have found – surprise, surprise – that when there’s an economic value on greenhouse gas emissions, factories have a tendency to under-report what they’re spewing out. More

The Impact of California’s Biggest Tax Revolt
KPBS, Feb. 23 -- As California struggles to pinch together the funds to cover one huge budget shortfall after another, as state services are strangled to the point that entire programs are on the chopping block and state workers are furloughed, some say now may finally be the time to re-evaluate Proposition 13. These Days guests, including Isaac Martin, a professor of sociology at UCSD, author of “The Permanent Tax Revolt” about Prop 13, discuss the issue.More

Big Apple Hopes to Emulate Our High-Tech Success
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 23 -- In her annual report, the speaker of New York’s City Council, Christine Quinn, announced Thursday that among her top priorities is to grow new high-wage industries and, in particular, technology companies. (Quotes UCSD Vice Chancellor Mary Walshok, one of the founders of San Diego’s CONNECT) More

Advanced Placement’s Prominence Attracts Increased Scrutiny
San Diego News Network, Feb. 23 -- The College Board’s Advanced Placement program has seen rapid growth and significant transformation since it was first introduced more than 50 years ago as a way to offer college credit to highly gifted high school students through challenging coursework. (Mentions the Preuss School at UCSD) More

Dr. Seuss Birthday Bash Planned
Fox6, Feb. 23 -- A celebration will be held at UCSD next week to mark what would have been the late Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel's 106th birthday.  More

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