A Sampling of Clips for
April 24th, 2007
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Safety Ideas for Schools:
Couriers to Messaging
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 24 -- Local colleges are looking into safety measures that are as high-tech as mass text-message alerts to students during emergencies and as low-tech as bicycle couriers with bullhorns. (Quotes UCSD spokesman Paul Mueller) More
Local Geophysicist
Examines San Diego Earthquakes
KPBS, April 24 -- It's one of those stories that makes you sit up and say, "oh, really?" KPBS reporter Alison St. John covered it last December. Word that there's a lattice work of seismic fault lines under a major redevelopment area on the San Diego waterfront. And that yes, an earthquake could happen here, too. Q& A with Jose Otero, instrumentation geophysicist at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. More
Toward a Black President
KPBS, April 19 -- Is America ready for an African-American President? Our guest says attitudes toward black political candidates and leaders have changed since the 60s. Now with the presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama catching fire, the lessons of the past have new relevance. Host Gloria Penner interviews Zoltan Hajnal, assistant professor of political science at UCSD and former research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. His research areas include minority representation, urban governance, inequality, political participation and direct democracy. He is author of "Changing White Attitudes Toward Black Political Leadership." More
Education Looks to Business Partnerships for Financial Support, Real-world Experiences
San Diego Daily Transcript, April 24 -- Partnerships between members of the business world and the education community are crucial in today's ever-changing corporate environment, according to a panel of local officials. (Quotes Parker Pike, a college professor and marketing director for UCSD Extension) More