A Sampling of Clips for 
November 4 , 2005

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UCSD Student Takes Goldwyn Prize
Hollywood Report, Nov. 3—UCSD student Michael Carnick won the top writing honor Tuesday at the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills. Carnick, a theater/screenwriting major, took home $25,000 for his screenplay "Who's Driving Doug" at the 50th anniversary of the contest. More

UCSD Ranks Seventh
in Nation for Federally Funded R&D
San Diego Daily Transcript, Nov. 3—The University of California, San Diego ranked seventh among U.S. universities in receiving and spending federal research and development funding for fiscal 2002-2003, as calculated by the National Science Foundation, and announced in a UCSD release. More

Immigration Reform and the Latino Vote
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Nov. 4—No issue makes for stranger political bedfellows than immigration. Where else would one find Grover Norquist, archetype of the neoconservative movement, and the National Council of La Raza putting their heads on the same political pillow? The introduction of sweeping immigration reform in Congress and President Bush's zeal to overhaul our immigration system are making some very strange bedfellows indeed. (Article written by Tomas Jiménez, an assistant professor of sociology at UCSD.) More