A Sampling of Clips for 
June 24, 2003

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State Finds Itself Hemmed In
Los Angeles Times, June 24—California, among the most ethnically diverse states in the nation and long a bellwether on affirmative action, now finds itself with fewer options for diversifying its public universities than nearly all other states. The predicament stems from Proposition 209, the 1996 ballot initiative that banned racial and ethnic preferences in state institutions. The U.S. Supreme Court decisions Monday affirming limited consideration of race in college admissions do not directly apply here.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-affirm24jun24,1,6573080.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Similar article(s) appeared in:
Chronicle for Higher Education, June 24
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/06/2003062305n.htm

Los Angeles Times, June 24
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-062303scotus_wr,1,1308417.story

San Diego Union-Tribune, June 24
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/news/news_1n24race.html

UCSD Campus Speaks Out About Ruling
San Diego Channel, June 24—There is a mixed reaction in San Diego about the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action -- especially since California voters passed Proposition 209, which eliminated affirmative action at public schools and universities. (Quote by UCSD Professor John Skrentny, one of the nation's premiere historians on affirmative action.)
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/education/2289033/detail.html

Council prepares for tough fund cuts
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 24—Since May 5, when City Manager Michael Uberuaga presented a $739 million general fund proposal, and through six weeks of public hearings that began May 12, the council has been loath to make cuts Uberuaga has said are needed to balance the budget. (Quote by Steve Erie, political scientist at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030623-9999_1m23sdbud.html

Florida agrees to pay FAU $10 million for developmental project
Sun-Sentinel, June 23—Scientists at Florida Atlantic University were overjoyed this month when the state announced it would release $10 million in July for an ambitious project to develop drugs from the sea and train young researchers who could become the core of a burgeoning, local biotechnology industry. (Quote by William Fenical, director of the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-sbcenter22jun22,0,7058595.story?coll=sfla-business-front

Livermore’s Linux cluster is world’s third speediest system
GCN, June 23— An international committee of researchers from the United States and Germany released the Top 500 list of federal supercomputers that assist cutting-edge research today. Thirteen in the Top 500 are at research facilities that get significant federal grant money, including the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/22548-1.html

Astronaut Sally Ride enters hall of fame
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 22—Sally Ride, a physicist at UC San Diego and America's first woman in space, was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame yesterday, almost 20 years to the day that she rocketed into history. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/news/news_1n22nation.html

Sweet dreams: A new study says a nap can be as refreshing as a full night's sleep
The London Guardian, June 24—Is a quick "power nap" really as good for you as a full night's sleep? Researchers at Harvard University in Massachusetts tested volunteers with a visual learning task - and those who stayed awake all day performed less well at the end of the day. (Refers to sleep study conducted by the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,3605,983656,00.html

Good morning
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 24—Dust and debris: Call it industrial archaeology. Things that were once mundane can take on vintage status. A modest exhibition on the lower level of the Geisel Library at UCSD makes this point pleasurably. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/currents/news_mz1c24tuesda.html