A Sampling of Clips for 
April 02, 2004

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UCSD Among 'Best Value' Schools
San Diego Daily Transcript, April 1- The Princeton Review has included the University of California, San Diego on a list of "best value" universities across the country. Seventy-seven institutions were selected for the list, which is being printed in Princeton Review's first edition of "America's Best Value Colleges." Schools were chosen based on quality of academics, low-to-moderate tuition fees and student satisfaction with financial aid packages. According to UCSD, the list was based on data obtained from more than 500 colleges as well as student surveys. http://www.sddt.com/News/article.cfm?SourceCode=20040401tli#

Voters Favor Kerry on Financial Issues
Los Angeles Times, April 2-It is no secret that a lack of job creation has emerged as a pivotal election issue. But a new Los Angeles Times Poll suggests that Americans' pocketbook concerns extend well beyond the labor market, and the public thinks that Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry would better look out for their financial futures than would President Bush. (Quote by Samuel L. Popkin, a UC San Diego political scientist.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/timespoll/la-fi-bizpoll2apr02,1,369482.story

Few Take Schizophrenia Drugs As Directed
WebMD, April 1-Less than half of the more than 2 million Americans living with schizophrenia are taking their antipsychotic medications as directed, a new study conducted by the University of California, San Diego shows. Despite recent improvements in drugs available to treat the potentially devastating condition, researchers found that only 41% of people with schizophrenia take their antipsychotic medications regularly. (Quote by researcher Dilip Jeste M.D., a professor of psychiatry and neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/84/98368.htm?lastselectedguid=%7B5FE84E90-BC77-4056-A91C-9531713CA348%7D

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 1
http://www.ajc.com/health/content/shared-auto/healthnews/schz/518175.html

Copley News Service, April 1
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City News Service, April 1
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Study Finds Dogs Do Look Like Owners
Los Angeles Daily News, April 1-Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have concluded that when people pick a dog, they tend to choose one that looks like them. But while purebreds proved the closest match to their owners, mixed-breed look-alikes went to the dogs. The UCSD researchers chose three San Diego dog parks and randomly photographed 45 dogs and their owners. They then asked 28 undergraduate judges to study mug shots of dog owners and a choice of two dogs. (Quote by UCSD psychology professor Nicholas J.S. Christenfeld, who co-authored the study just published in Psychological Science.)
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2057002,00.html#

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ABC News, April 1
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/strange/040104_sn_pets.html

Rocky Mountain News, April 1
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UCSD Slips in U.S. News Rankings
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 2-UC San Diego's medical and engineering schools both slipped a couple of notches in the U.S. News and World Report graduate school rankings that will be released today. The University of California, San Diego medical school was ranked 17th for research, and seventh for primary care. It fell one slot in both categories from the previous year. UCSD's medical school was ranked just below UCLA and Vanderbilt University. UCSD medical school spokeswoman Leslie Franz said although the school fell in the rankings, certain scores considered for the rankings - average student Medical College Admission Test scores and research grants received from the National Institutes of Health - improved.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040402-9999-news_7m2rank.html

New Research Institute Will Focus on the Wonders of the Mind
La Jolla Light, March 18-On March 10, UCSD announced the creation of The Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, a new research facility that will combine multiple academic disciplines to understand how genes create the brain that gives rise to the collection of behaviors that we call the mind. The institute will be co-directed by Nicholas Spitzer, professor of biology and former chair of the neurobiology section in the Division of Biological Sciences, and Jeffrey Elman, associate dean for the Division of Social Sciences.
http://www.lajollalight.com/2004/03/18/n040318news_research.html

Accounting Board Proposal Would List Stock Options As Expense
Miami Herald-Tribune, April 1-The nation's accounting policy maker yesterday proposed a rule that would require U.S. corporations to report employee stock options as an expense -- a move that could slash billions in profits from company financial statements. The move is designed to provide shareholders with a more accurate picture, and to help curb the kind of executive compensation excesses that helped spawn corporate financial scandals at Enron, WorldCom and other companies. (Quote by Michael Willoughby, an accounting professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/8329707.htm

Venezuelan Envoy 'Resigned Eight Times' Before Quitting in March
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 2-The government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez frustrated Venezuelan diplomat Milos Alcalay so much "I resigned eight times" before doing it for good, Alcalay told an audience at the University of California, San Diego this week. Alcalay, who was the country's ambassador to the United Nations, resigned March 4, saying the government was violating democratic principles and human rights.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20040402-9999-news_1n2venez.html

UCSD Salutes Cesar Chavez
La Jolla Village News, April 1-A series of diverse events during the month of April at the University of California, San Diego will observe the birthday of labor leader and human rights activist Cesar Chavez. Although Chavez's birthday is March 31, educational activities will begin April 2 and continue until May 3.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/eclips/PDF/lajollavillagenews_chavez.pdf

Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite
The National Interest, Opinion, Spring 2004-Debates over national identity are a pervasive characteristic of our time. In part, they raise rhetorical questions, but they also have profound implications for American society and American policy at home and abroad. Different perceptions-especially between the citizenry and the more cosmopolitan elites-of what constitutes national identity generate different national interests and policy priorities. The views of the general public on issues of national identity differ significantly from those of many elites (Quote by George Lipsitz of the University of California, San Diego.)
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Paramedic: Woman Stricken With Alzheimer's Kept in 'Very Unsanitary' Room
City News Service, April 1-A woman with Alzheimer's disease was kept in "very unsanitary" conditions just days before she died, a paramedic testified today at a preliminary hearing for the patient's daughter and boyfriend. Lawrence Hansen, a professor of neuropathology at UC San Diego, testified he studied Weeks' brain, and found evidence she had been afflicted with Alzheimer's disease "for some years." It was unclear when Weeks became symptomatic with the illness, but it was likely that she had at least become forgetful, Hansen said.
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