A Sampling of Clips for 
April 03 - 05, 2004

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UC President Names New San Diego Chancellor
Los Angeles Times, April 3-Marye Anne Fox, a noted chemist and the chancellor of North Carolina State University, has been chosen to take the helm of UC San Diego. Fox, 56, has led North Carolina State for six years. Before that, she was with the University of Texas at Austin, where she spent 22 years and rose from assistant professor of organic chemistry to vice president for research. UC President Robert C. Dynes, who was chancellor of UC San Diego until taking his current job in October, said Friday in a prepared statement that Fox "is widely regarded as a fine teacher and mentor, a dedicated researcher, and a seasoned administrator of a large and active public research institution."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucsd3apr03,1,3444586.story

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NBC News, April 2
http://www.nbc17.com/education/2971794/detail.html

San Francisco Chronicle, April 4
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/03/BAGTV603F91.DTL

Associated Press, April 3
* No link available online.

San Jose Mercury News, April 2
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/8342626.htm

KFMB News, April 2
http://www.kfmb.com/topstory23861.html

City News Service, April 2
* No link available online.

San Diego Daily Transcript, April 2
http://www.sddt.com/News/article.cfm?SourceCode=20040402tlb#

San Diego Union-Tribune, April 3
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040403-9999-news_1n3ucsd.html

North County Times, April 2
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/04/03/news/top_stories/21_18_144_2_04.txt

Yes, You Might Really Look Like a Dog, Study Says
Los Angeles Times, April 4-UC San Diego researchers Nicholas J.S. Christenfeld and Michael M. Roy, have concluded that dog owners frequently pick dogs that look like themselves. Researchers photographed 45 canines and owners separately and then asked reviewers -- 28 undergraduate psychology students -- to match the owners with their dogs. For the 25 purebreds, the reviewers made 16 correct matches and nine misses, but mutts were much harder to match with their owners.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dogs4apr04,1,429930.story

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Houston Chronicle, April 2
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/248344

Colleges' Budget Crunch Growing
Los Angeles Times, April 4-Facing yet another year of multimillion-dollar budget cuts, California's public colleges and universities, long renowned for their excellence and affordability, may be poised to follow the state's once-smooth highways into decline. The severe funding reductions likely to be imposed on the campuses this summer come on top of three years of cuts that have eroded the quantity and quality of offerings, in ways large and small. At UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, for instance, administrators have scrambled to replace the state money that has helped pay for such projects as the survey, used by the state Department of Fish and Game in fisheries management. Director Charles Kennel said the institution has patched together interim solutions for most of the center's jeopardized programs. "It's still tooth-grinding time," he said.
http://www.latimes.com/la-me-colleges4apr04,1,6661419.story

Kerry Doing the Math and Scaling Back Some Plans
Los Angeles Times, April 4-On his way to the top of the Democratic presidential field, Sen. John F. Kerry talked a lot about his plans for helping average Americans -- with programs like universal preschool and college tuition subsidies. Now, his advisors are working on a comprehensive federal budget to make sure proposals announced last summer still add up. And Kerry has said some of his plans will have to be scaled back. On Tuesday, he told a crowd of more than 2,000 students at UC San Diego that he would have to go slowly on the plan. Kerry said it would initially be more "modest." He did not elaborate.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-kerrybudget4apr04,1,3250782.story

Showdown in Taiwan
Business Week, April 5-It felt more like a pep rally than a revolution. In the days following President Chen Shui-bian's narrow reelection on Mar. 20, thousands of demonstrators gathered in a Taipei square to denounce what they called election fraud. Backers of Chen's rival, Lien Chan, donned campaign-issue white-and-blue baseball caps and waved flags, while lasers flashed slogans on the walls of the nearby presidential palace. In the evening, the crowds swelled as workers and their families arrived to lend support -- and snack on the corn dogs and steamed buns offered by street vendors. (Quote by Susan Shirk, a professor at the University of California at San Diego.)
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Experts Turn Focus to Heart, Strokes
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 5-Health officials from around the region gathered recently at the UCSD forum of heart disease and stroke experts. The panel was assembled to discuss creating a new Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention and Treatment master plan, mandated by a new state law, to help set policies to reduce death and disability. Locally, forum participants from Kaiser Permanente, UCSD Medical Center, Scripps and San Diego County Health and Human Services detailed dozens of other remedies to the growing epidemic of heart disease, diabetes and obesity.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/health/20040405-9999-news_1m5heart.html

Leften Stavros Stavrianos; UCSD Adjunct History Professor
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 4-For Leften Stavros Stavrianos, the key to understanding the political events of the day was to study and interpret history from a global perspective. He brought that philosophy into the classroom as an adjunct history professor at UCSD, and he expressed it profoundly in a series of books and monographs over more than three decades. Stavrianos, who taught part time at the University of California, San Diego for 18 years, died March 23 at Scripps Memorial Hospital-La Jolla of respiratory failure.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/obituaries/20040404-9999-news_1m4stavriano.html

Power Tools for San Diego's Hidden Leaders
San Diego Union-Tribune, Richard Louv, April 4-One of the least accurate rants about San Diego is that we're short on leaders. True, we're an individualistic lot, but we're far from leaderless. Our hidden leaders remain isolated in their neighborhoods; or can't locate a public space in which to lead. In July, the Consensus Organizing Institute staff members asked nonprofit organizations across the county to identify residents who might someday be leaders but lacked knowledge or resources. The result: Two-dozen San Diegans, mostly minorities, attended a 12-week UCSD Extension course in civic engagement and community organizing. UCSD not only provided the space and some of the instructors - including Michael Schudsen, author of "The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life" - but also created financial assistance in the form of Nathanson Fellowships, named for the late Chuck Nathanson, who served as director of San Diego Dialogue.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/louv/20040404-9999-mz1e4louv.html

Did We Start Warming 5,000 Years Ago?
Sacramento Bee, April 4-In the political and scientific debate about the greenhouse effect and global warming, it has long been presumed that human-induced global warming is a modern phenomenon. Now, William Ruddiman, an emeritus professor of environmental sciences from the University of Virginia, has found evidence in the ice cores that humans have also been changing the Earth's climate for thousands of years - substantially enough, he believes, that our preindustrial ancestors may have warmed the globe sufficiently to stave off an ice age. (Quote by Ralph Keeling, a geochemist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/8748267p-9675659c.html

Campaign 2004: Poll Favors Kerry on Finances
Pittsburg Post-Gazette, April 4-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 political scientist at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04095/295191.stm

Hiring Gits High Mark in March
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 3-Breaking a long-running slump, U.S. employers added 308,000 jobs last month in an unexpectedly high burst of hiring that some economists say could herald the end to the "jobless recovery." The increase in jobs -- most of which went to temporary or part-time workers -- lagged the influx of new workers into the labor force, however, producing a rise in the unemployment rate from 5.6 percent in February to 5.7 percent last month. Nevertheless, the White House seized on the jobs report as proof that President Bush's $1.7 trillion in tax cuts has finally spurred companies to hire workers. (Quote by Ross Starr, an economist at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20040403-9999-news_1n3jobless.html

Stop the Dollar's Slide
Baron's Online, April 5-President George W. Bush apparently wants to have his economic stimulus both ways: Huge increases in public spending in the tradition of John Maynard Keynes, and supply-side tax cuts to stimulate private consumption. The resulting outsized budget deficits are putting downward pressure on the dollar in the short run -- and dangerously undermining international confidence in the currency for the long haul. The faith and credit of Uncle Sam are coming into question around the world, and the greenback could become the major casualty. (Article written by Doug Ramsey, public information officer for UCSD's Supercomputer Center.)
http://online.wsj.com/barrons/article/0,,SB108094909509773155,00.html?mod=b_this_weeks_magazine_main

Rated `G
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 3-San Diego is silly for all things Seuss, and why the heck not? As many of you know, the late Theodor Geisel, author/illustrator of the vast Dr. Seuss empire, was a local (La Jolla, to be exact). His literary legacy has culminated in several recent tributes: This year's San Diego County Fair has been dubbed a "Seussentennial Celebration," and the second in a series of Dr. Seuss exhibits at the UCSD Library (this one titled "Dr. Seuss Between the Covers") is scheduled to open May 24.
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Mexico's Creel Prods U.S. on Death-Row Cases
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 3-Mexico will "do all that is within our reach" to make sure the United States complies with this week's ruling by the International Court of Justice that the sentences of 51 Mexicans on death row be reconsidered, Interior Minister Santiago Creel said yesterday. Creel was in San Diego yesterday to speak at the University of California San Diego, where he helped open a two-day conference on state reform in Mexico.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20040403-9999-news_1n3creel.html

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Copley News Service, April 4
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2004 is Wild Initiative Season
North County Times, April 3-This election year is being billed as the wildest initiative season since 1988, when California voters passed a record nine propositions, including one guaranteeing public schools roughly 40 percent of state money. Proponents of initiatives on topics ranging from gambling to workers' compensation and stem-cell research are aiming for what is sure to be a crowded November ballot. (Quote by UC San Diego political science professor Gary Jacobson.)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/04/04/election2004/19_13_184_3_04.txt