A Sampling of Clips for 
October 15, 2003

* UCSD faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the University Communications Office

Chasing the Wild Past
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 15-Analyzing fossilized scales found in sediment in the Santa Barbara Basin, scientists have found that over the last 1,700 years sardines have regularly disappeared from the sea and just as regularly returned. In that span there have been nine major cycles of population collapse and recovery. Tim Baumgartner, the lead researcher, now at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, found that this current recovery is not unlike those of the past in its rate, magnitude and overall evolution.
http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-sardine15oct15,1,3588476.story

China Launches Man into Orbit Communist Government Heralds the Mission as a Symbol of Progress
USA Today, Oct. 15-China became only the third nation to send a person into space as its Long March rocket soared aloft today from a launching pad in the country's remote western desert. The launch comes more than four decades after the feat was accomplished by the United States and the former Soviet Union. (Quote by Susan Shirk, an expert in Chinese politics and economics at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-10-14-china-space_x.htm

Local Scientists Among World's Most Cited
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 14- Six UC and La Jolla researchers are among the world's most-cited scientists in the past 20 years, according to the current issue of Science Watch, a publication that tracks scientific publishing. The researchers, all of whom hail from either UC San Diego, the Salk Institute or the Burnham Institute, all placed in the top 50 of the publication's list.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20031014-1436-citedscientists.html

UC Standards
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 15- A report on UC Berkeley's admissions data, containing an extensive analysis by UC Board of Regents Chairman John Moores, found that 381 incoming students last year, or 3.5 percent, had scores on the Scholastic Assessment Test ranging from 600 to 1,000. That's far below the average SAT score of Berkeley students in 2002, which was 1337. Now people are starting to wonder if UCs are admitting scholastically underachieving students at the expense of far better qualified applicants. (Quote by Mae Brown, UCSD's director of admissions.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/editorial2/20031015-9999_mz1ed15botto.html

Health Tips... from UPI
United Press International, Oct. 15- To help a child who suffers from social anxiety, most parents will turn to counseling over medication. A survey of 190 parents at the University of California, San Diego, determined that, as in cases of children with depression or attention deficit disorder, a majority of parents will try counseling first for children suffering from social anxiety disorder.
* No link available online.

Mapping a Better World
Art in America, October 2003-Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison's first solo show in New York in 10 years, at Ronald Feldman Fin Arts, opened with a circular map of the earth, installed on a wall facing the entrance. During the three-and-a-half-decade career of this husband-and-wife team, both professors emeritus at UCSD, maps have loomed large.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/eclips/PDF/Mapping.pdf

Governor's Office is Like Box Office: Fame Only Goes so Far
San Jose Mercury News, Oct. 15-Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie career may be on hold, but the fame he gained from years as a Hollywood superstar should continue paying dividends for him as governor-at least for a while. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California-San Diego.)
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/7001918.htm

More of the Same, but Not Much
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 15- If it doesn't rain today or tomorrow at Lindbergh Field, 2003 will set a record for most consecutive days without measurable precipitation: 166. Does that mean we're in for a sixth straight year of below-average rainfall? (Quote by Dan Cayan, director of the Climate Research Division of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c15weather.html

Chinese Underground Film Festival
KPBS, Oct. 9-The University of California at San Diego is home to what might be the world's most extensive collection of Chinese underground films. This week, the university showcases 13 of these films and offers an opportunity to meet one of the filmmakers.
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kpbs/arts.artsmain?action=viewArticle&pid=31&sid=8&id=555443

Board Honors Dr. Seuss with 2004 Theme
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 15- The Fair Board will team with Dr. Seuss Enterprises to present next year's San Diego County Fair, and it will be called "A Seussentennial Celebration." Ted Geisel, who wrote children's books under the pen name "Dr. Seuss" and lived in La Jolla until his death in 1991, would have been 100 years old next year. For 2003, the fairgrounds teamed with UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Birch Aquarium to present a fair with an aquatic theme, "Commotion by the Ocean."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_1mi15fair.html

In her Element British Designer Brings Flamboyant Flair to Projects
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 15- Fashion designer Zandra Rhodes was in town the first week of October, working on costumes and set designs for the San Diego Opera's production of "The Pearl Fishers," which opens in February. Among her favorite charitable causes, Rhodes has volunteered for six years as co-chairman of the annual Heart of San Diego event, which has raised more than $1.5 million for the University of California San Diego Cardiovascular Center.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_m1m15tfdmar.html