A Sampling of Clips for
March 04, 2004
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Burn Victim
Goes Home Triumphant
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 4-Rudy
Reyes is alive, and now he wants to start living. The last hospitalized
victim of the October wildfires was discharged yesterday from
the UCSD Regional Burn Center into a cool breeze
and what he said he hopes is a long life ahead. Reyes' discharge
ends a period in which UCSD's burn unit treated
more seriously burned patients than from any single fire in
recent history, said Daniel Lozano M.D., the
unit's director. UCSD spent about $2.6 million
for nearly 500 patient-days of hospital care.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/fires/20040304-9999-7m4reyes.html
Cedar Fire
Burn Victim Released From Hospital
TheSanDiegoChannel.com, March 4-A
man who suffered burns over 65 percent of his body during last
October's wildfires was released Wednesday from UCSD
Medical Center, where he underwent 18 surgeries and 130 therapy
sessions. Rudy Reyes, a 26-year-old archaeologist and small
business owner, was discharged from the burn unit after 129
days of treatment. (Quote by the UCSD medical
center's public information representative, Eileen Callahan.)
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/news/2895473/detail.html
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article appeared in:
NBCSandiego.com, March 3
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/2895632/detail.html
City News Service, March 3
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4 Fire Protection Measures Rejected
Los Angeles Times, March 4-Just four
months after the most disastrous fires in the county's history,
four of seven ballot measures to improve fire protection in
San Diego County failed to win passage Tuesday. The failure
of the four tax measures comes as debate continues over whether
the fires, which killed 16 people and destroyed more than 3,200
structures, could have been stopped sooner if the region had
had better fire protection. (Quote by Steve Erie,
a political science professor at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fire4mar04,1,5546329.story
Cultivating
'Amazing Things'
Los Angeles Times, March 4-Opened
last April by art impresario Mark Allen, the
Los Angeles art gallery, Machine occupies an unassuming storefront
with a wide, plate-glass window that surveys the stop-and-go
traffic on North Alvarado Street. It fits snugly into this bustling
block just north of Sunset Boulevard, a strip that features
a cafe, a bookstore, a filmmaking co-op and soon a new library.
Allen, who teaches at CalArts and UC
San Diego and freelances as a computer programmer,
wanted a cheap space that could double as a gallery and personal
workspace. Working with the artist and architect Fritz Haeg
and builder Beau Haggen, he constructed a series of movable
walls, creating a versatile room that changes from studio/gallery
to performance space.
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Return of
the Ratings: 'Rings' Helps Lift Academy Awards
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 3-"Opera
Spotlight," a joint production with UCSD-TV
and San Diego Opera has won a Telly Award. The awards were established
in 1978 to showcase and give recognition to outstanding, non-network
and cable commercials, film and video productions. From among
10,000 entries from five continents, San Diego Opera's "Opera
Spotlight: Therese Raquin" received a Bronze Telly. "Opera
Spotlight" is produced by John Menier and airs from January
through May on UCSD-TV.The program focuses
on individual San Diego Opera productions during the company's
season.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/tvradio/040303_briefs.html
In Focus
San
Diego City Beat, March 4- Haunani-Kai Trask, a
leader in the native Hawaiian sovereignty movement who lives
on the island of Oahu, will be the keynote speaker of "Crossing
Borders: Citizenship, Social Justice and the Crossroads of Culture,"
this Friday and Saturday at UCSD. The conference
is the second in an annual series organized by the ethnic studies
departments at UCSD, UC Berkeley and the University
of Southern California. Structured largely around the dissertation
work of graduate students at the sponsoring universities, the
conference will address issues of citizenship, social justice
and culture as they relate to physical and metaphorical border
crossings amid today's shifting political and socioeconomic
landscape.
http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=1825
Progress Seen in Survey
Probe
Modesto Bee, March 3-A judge is waiting
to decide on a request to move the trial of a man accused of
killing a Fresno County deputy until the survey results are
verified. Ebbe Ebbesen, a psychology professor
at the University of California at San Diego,
is checking the data.
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/8227131p-9076208c.html
Feds Aid
Drop-House Crackdowns
Arizona Republic, March 4-The U.S.
Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, bolstered by
dozens of additional agents temporarily assigned to Phoenix,
has rounded up nearly 750 undocumented immigrants and arrested
20 suspected smugglers from 13 drop houses in the past 23 days.
The response marks a dramatic change from just a year ago when
local police agencies, frustrated by the federal government's
inability to deal with the illicit immigrant-smuggling trade
flowing through Phoenix, frequently were forced to let undocumented
immigrants and smuggling suspects go free after encountering
drop houses. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius, director
of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University
of California, San Diego.)
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0304drophouses04.html#
Officials
Seek to Strengthen County Fire Protection
KFMB News, March 4-As officials consider
placing a new fire protection measure on the November ballot,
the city of San Diego plans to ask corporate donors to help
pay for the fire department's equipment needs, it was reported
Thursday. (Quote by Steve Erie, a political
science professor at UC San Diego.)
http://www.kfmb.com/topstory22931.html
Parents,
Kids Get a Head Start on College Planning
North County Times, March 4-About
four dozen parents and their middle school children spent Wednesday
evening listening to representatives from Cal State San Marcos
and other local colleges tell them how to get prepared for college
---- everything from what classes students need to take in high
school, to strategies for saving money and finding scholarships
to help pay for the endeavor. One of the programs the students
were encourage to enter is called Advancement Via Individual
Determination, which helps students focus on their academic
performance and teaches them to work independently. The program
also urges them to begin thinking about higher education. Along
with Cal State San Marcos, other local colleges, including UC
San Diego, MiraCosta and Palomar community colleges,
and the private Alliant International University all participate
in the program.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/03/04/news/inland/3_3_0422_42_14.txt
