A Sampling of Clips for March 2, 2010

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San Diego City Attorney to Investigate Noose Case
Associated Press, March 2 — The San Diego city attorney's office will determine if the hanging of a noose in a UCSD library was a hate crime. UCSD police say they've completed their investigation into the incident, and they turned over their results to the city attorney Tuesday. More

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White Hood Prompts Inquiry on San Diego Campus
The New York Times, March 3 -- The police at UCSD are investigating the discovery Monday night of what appeared to be a Ku Klux Klan-style hood on a statue outside the main campus library. More

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Local NAACP Leaders to Participate in Town Hall Meeting
North County Times, March 2 -- Leaders of the North County branch of the NAACP will join civil rights advocates from throughout the state and county at a community forum in San Diego on Wednesday to explore ways to improve race relations at UCSD in the wake of recent racial incidents. More

China Parliament Examines Growth, Living Standards
The New York Times, March 3 - The Chinese leadership's efforts to engineer a trouble-free succession and push both economic growth and improved living standards in coming years move to the national parliament from Friday. (Quotes Barry Naughton of UCSD) More

Richard Wyatt's Reunion With His Youthful Art at UCLA Fowler Museum
Los Angeles Times, March 2 -- The artists behind a vibrant mural depicting community protection of black youth were a mystery to the folks at UCLA. An image of the work, part of the school's archive, would eventually grace university publications, including an edition of the museum's newsletter Fowler Now, but they didn't know who had painted it. (Mentions Rubén Ortiz Torres, who is on the UCSD faculty) More

Field Poll: More California Voters Prefer
Spending Cuts, Not Taxes, to Close Deficit
Sacramento Bee, March 2 -- Half of California voters believe the state should close its $19.9 billion deficit mostly or entirely through spending cuts rather than tax increases, according to a Field Poll released Tuesday. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Thad Kousser) More

Can Jerry Brown Shed 'Gov. Moonbeam' Label?
San Francisco Chronicle, March 2 -- With four decades in public service and a reputation as a political chameleon, Attorney General Jerry Brown, a gubernatorial hopeful, must try to shake the one word that critics have aimed at him for the past 35 years: "Moonbeam." (Quotes UCSD political scientist Thad Kousser) More

High Hormone Level Linked to Cancer Death in Older Men
KYTX, Jecksonville, Texas, March 3 -- High levels of a hormone called insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) are associated with an increased risk of cancer death in older men, a new UCSD study has found. More

California Readies for Day of Action
The Huffington Post, March 2 -- University of California students are gearing up for Thursday, Mar. 4, the state's designated Student Day of Action to protest higher education budget cuts. (Mentiosn UCSD) More

The California Stem Cell Program: It Works, Why Mess With It?
The Huffington Post, March 2 -- Having brought in roughly one billion dollars in new money for the state, (more on that later) the California stem cell program is already a spectacular success.But there are other and more personal ways to judge the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. (Mentions research by Catriona Jamieson of UCSD) More

Mysteries of Stem Cells Explained
KPBS, March 2 – Larry Goldstein, the director of UCSD’s Stem Cell Initiative has just co-written a book that can answer just about anybody's stem cell questions. It’s called "Stem Cells For Dummies," part of that great ‘For Dummies’ line of easy-to-read instruction books. More

Building Earthquake-Proof in Chile
Voice of San Diego, March 2 -- The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday was estimated to be about 500 times stronger than the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, but initial reports show that Chile's death toll will be much lower than the estimated 220,000 people killed in Haiti. José Restrepo, a professor of structural engineering at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering, said Chileans have their buildings to thank. More

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