A Sampling of Clips for 
October 2, 2003

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New UC President's Journey Began with Cold Realization
Sacramento Bee, Oct. 2-Today former UCSD chancellor Robert C. Dynes is moving into one of most influential posts in higher education, president of the University of California. An award-winning physicist, Dynes says it took some "ego busting" and long talks with his wife, also a UC San Diego physicist, before he decided to take the coveted $395,000 position. In his opening months on the job, Dynes will have nothing but tough decisions to make as UC endures a second year of deep budget cuts.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/education/story/7522190p-8464097c.html

New UC System President has Left an Innovative Mark
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 2-As UC President Robert Dynes starts one of higher education's most influential positions during a time of crisis, UCSD colleagues reflect on his past accomplishments, and commend Dynes for always managing to fashion innovative responses to complicated problems. (Quotes by UCSD acting Chancellor Marsha Chandler, director of UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography Charlie Kennel, and UC Regent John Davies of San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20031002-9999_1n2dynes.html

Physicist Marshall Rosenbluth Dies; Expert in Fusion
Washington Post, Oct. 2-Marshall N. Rosenbluth, 76, an eminent and much honored American physicist who spent most of his career working toward controlled nuclear fusion, died of pancreatic cancer Sept. 28 at a hospital in La Jolla, Calif. He was a professor emeritus and research professor at the University of California at San Diego and was regarded as perhaps the foremost physicist in the nation in the study of plasmas.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31587-2003Oct1.html

In Recall, Personality May Outweigh Policy
Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 2-Schwarzenegger's lead in the current governor recall may reflect a pattern in which issue positions aren't the top factor for voters. Although policy positions aren't irrelevant, analysts say Mr. Schwarzenegger may appeal to voters in part for hewing a relatively moderate line on California's difficult budget issues, unlike Bustamante who favors raising taxes. (Quote by Dan Hallin, a professor of communications at the University of California at San Diego.)
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Schwarzenegger's Star Rising Despite 'Governor Groper' Tag
The Toronto Star, Oct. 2-As polls reveal Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign growing, allegations arise of his past sexist megalomaniac behavior. Samuel Popkin, a political scientist at the University of California at San Diego, says past tales of crudeness involving Schwarzenegger are viewed as Arnold being brash and irreverent and may appeal to the usually apolitical young, white males, the same group that mobilized to put wrestler Jesse Ventura into the governor's office in Minnesota.
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Researchers Work to Unlock Secrets of Body's Cell 'Janitors'
Knight Ridder, Oct. 2- The cells in your body are cluttered with trash -- unneeded or abnormal stuff that can make you sick or even kill you. Fortunately, nature has provided each cell with its own garbage-disposal system to get rid of dangerous junk. Researchers at many laboratories are discovering new details about this ingenious process, in hopes that their findings will lead to new treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other diseases. (Quote by Marilyn Farquhar, a molecular biologist at the University of California San Diego.)
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Drug-Coated Coronary Stents Less Likely to Cause Scarring
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 2- Coronary stents laced with the new drug sirolimus are four times less likely to cause obstructive artery scarring than older, uncoated stents, according to a new report released today. (Quote by Dr. Daniel Blanchard, associate professor of clinical medicine at UCSD.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20031002-9999_1m2stent.html

SD UCSD Artwork
City News Service, Oct. 1-UC San Diego received nine sculptures valued at $8 million as a gift from the Stuart Foundation, it was announced today. The contemporary sculptures will be displayed throughout the university's 1,200-acre campus, said Lindsay Orth, a communications spokesperson for UCSD.
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UCSD Students Rally Against Proposition 54
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 2- A passionate political rally took place yesterday at UCSD concerning Tuesday's election, and it had nothing to do with Arnold, Cruz, Gray or Tom. This was about Proposition 54 - the recall's lesser-known but also controversial cousin, that would require state and local governments to stop gathering people's racial information on various forms and records.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20031002-9999_2m2prop54.html

Study Says Whaling is Reason for Decline of Many Ocean Species
San Jose Mercury News, Oct. 2-The slaughter of more than half a million whales in the North Pacific and Bering Sea set off an ecological chain reaction that is wiping out sea lions and kelp forests today, according to a controversial new report by researchers from Santa Cruz, Calif., Seattle and Alaska. (Quote by Jeremy B.C. Jackson, a marine ecologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/6905279.htm

Renowned Economist Shiller Speaks at UCSD
Del Mar Times, Oct. 1- One of the nation's preeminent, and most prescient, economists, Yale Professor Robert Shiller, will speak at a UCSD Economics Roundtable breakfast on Friday, Oct. 10, at 7:30 a.m. at the Faculty Club on the University of California, San Diego campus. Among his topics will be ways to temper risk in national and personal economies.
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