A Sampling of Clips for 
October 16, 2003

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SD UCSD Gift
City News Service, Oct. 15-UC San Diego announced today it will receive a $5 million gift to support the recently established School of Management. Robert S. Sullivan, founding dean of the school, wants to use the money for new programs and to recruit top-flight faculty members. (Quote by Marsha Chandler, UCSD Acting Chancellor.)
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T-Sector, Oct. 15
http://www.thetsector.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=5990

Group Calls Climate at UCSD Unfriendly to Chicano, Latino Students and Faculty
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 16- The UCSD Chicano/Latino Concilio charged in a recent critique subtitled "A Legacy of Institutional Neglect" that UC San Diego's atmosphere is unwelcoming to Chicano and Latino students and faculty. The group credits the university and Robert Dynes, UCSD's former chancellor and UC's new systemwide president, with successes, including admissions policy changes that weigh academic and personal accomplishments, contracts to boost community college transfer student numbers, and the creation of the Chicano and Latino arts and humanities program and minor. UCSD administrators on Monday acknowledged the concerns raised in the report and said the recommendations would be carefully considered.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20031016-9999_2m16ucsd.html

China's 'Space Hero' Returns to Earth Mission Gives a Boost to the Nation's Pride and President
USA Today, Oct. 16-The first Chinese person in space returned safely to Earth early today, landing as planned on the soft grass of Inner Mongolia. China joins the former Soviet Union and the United States as the only countries to place people in space and return them safely to the Earth. (Quote by Susan Shirk, a China specialist at the University of California-San Diego.)
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20031016/5594034s.htm

A Connection in Every Spot
Wired Magazine, Oct. 16- Engineers meeting this week at UbiComp 2003, a ubiquitous-computing conference in Seattle, believe that technology -- rather than isolating people within virtual spaces -- should be forming real-world connections amongst flesh-and-blood human beings. (Quote by William Griswold a researcher at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60831,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3

Meddling Mars Somalia Peace Talks
Toronto Star, Oct. 16-The peace conference in Kenya neither reconciles Somali factions nor does it re-establish a Somali state. Rather, it surrenders Somalia's national interests to those of its hostile neighbors. (Quote by Barbara F. Walter, a professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c= Article&cid=1066255810329

N&D Mail Bag
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 16- Robert Clark, head of the San Diego Parrot Head Club, also known as the local Jimmy Buffett Fan Club, counters negative comments the general public has made about Jimmy Buffett fans. His club has been very active in the community, including raising more than $21,000 for the UCSD Regional Burn Center.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/night_day/news_mz1w16mail.html