A Sampling of Clips for
April 09, 2004
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Chancellor
of North Carolina State U. May Pack Her Bags for U. of California
at San Diego
Chronicle of Higher Education, April
7-Marye Anne Fox, a respected chemist who ran
into controversy with faculty members as chancellor of North
Carolina State University, has been nominated to be the next
chancellor of the University of California at San Diego.
The president of the University of California system, Robert
C. Dynes, said Friday that he had chosen Ms. Fox
for the San Diego job, which he held until last October. He
has asked the system's Board of Regents to meet on April 12
to ratify her appointment. Mr. Dynes was San
Diego's chancellor for eight years, until he became the system's
president last fall.
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California
Educators, Students Sign Petition to Lower Soaring Textbook
Prices
Miami Herald-Tribune, April 8-More
than 100 UC and California State University professors around
the state signed an April 6 letter along with 400 others nationwide
calling on Thomson Learning, a giant in the textbook industry,
to lower prices and stop releasing new editions every few years.
UC students shelled out an average of $898 in 2003-04 for textbooks,
a survey by the California Student Public Interest Research
Group found. The cost is increasingly onerous for students paying
ever higher fees. (Quote by John Turk, bookstore
director at UC San Diego.)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/8387799.htm?1c
Seeds of
Knowledge
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 8-A
decorated student from Ramona will be awarded the top prize
tomorrow for her essay as part of the sixth annual César
E. Chávez Commemorative Breakfast. Cielo Villaseñor,
a 16-year-old junior at Ramona High School, won this year's
essay competition with a composition that highlighted the teachings
of tolerance and nonviolence of the late civil rights leader.
The contest was co-sponsored by UCSD's Early
Academic Outreach Program.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040408-9999-1c8cesar.html
Win Transforms
School
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 9-
At Madison High School, which has struggled academically, the
robotics team's recent win in a regional competition was cause
for celebration. Now the team is raising money to travel to
the national finals in Atlanta. The Preuss School at UC
San Diego, which recruited Madison into the league,
will also compete in Atlanta next week.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040409-9999-1m9robotics.html
