A Sampling of Clips for 
April 3 ^rd, 2007

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1,000 Pay Tribute to Cesar
Chavez at Annual Breakfast
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 3 -- Some of the problems at the root of today's immigration debate parallel those that sparked CÈsar Ch·vez's campaign for farmworker rights in the 1960s, said the keynote speaker at yesterday's ninth annual breakfast to honor the late civil rights leader's legacy. Tony Valladolid, director of student policies and judicial affairs at UCSD, said many conditions affecting low-wage workers in the 1960s affect others now. More

Let's Abolish High School
Education Week, Commentary, April 3 -- Well, not quite. But while writing a new book called The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen, I explored some ideas that go almost that far. (Written by Robert Epstein, a visiting scholar at UCSD) More

Democrats Threaten
the South Korea Trade Deal
Contra Costa Times, April 2- Congressional Democrats threatened Monday to quash the Bush administration's new free-trade deal with South Korea unless the Asian tiger does more to open its market to U.S. automobiles and beef. (Quotes Stephan Haggard, a North Korea expert at UCSD) More

UC Health Workers
Union Approves New Contract
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 3 -- University of California health care professionals, including about 400 workers at UCSD, have approved a new five-year labor contract that includes a $1,000 bonus per worker, pay increases ranging from 4 percent to 15 percent and wider application of leaves to care for sick family members, the university system said yesterday. More

Eating Fish: There's a Catch
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 3 -- The confusion over which fish are safe to eat has consumers floundering. Do pollutants contaminate all nutritional benefits? Does farmed salmon offer the same health wonders as wild? Should everyone can the canned tuna? (Quotes Cheryl Rock, researcher and professor of nutrition at the UCSD School of Medicine) More