A Sampling of Clips for 
September 27 - 29, 2003

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The Tracking System
The New York Times Magazine, Sept. 28-A study published last month by the Public Policy Institute of California concludes that students' performances are demonstrably affected by those of their peers. The study's co-author, Julian Betts, a professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego, concluded that an individual student's rate of learning appears to be stronger and positively influenced by the initial achievement of students in his or her grade, and with somewhat less consistency than that of students in his or her classroom.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/magazine/WLN104024.html

Atkinson Set to Step Down from UC Helm
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 27- During a distinguished career, first as chancellor at the University of California San Diego for 15 years, then as UC president, Richard C. Atkinson reshaped UC admissions, expanded access to the prestigious 10-campus system and shepherded UCSD through one of its greatest periods of growth. As Atkinson's steps down from UC president, cuts in state funding will be the greatest challenge facing Atkinson's successor, UCSD Chancellor Robert Dynes.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sat/news/news_1n27atkins.html

Marshall Rosenbluth, UCSD Physicist, Dies of Cancer at 76
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 29- Marshall N. Rosenbluth, a physicist at UC San Diego and pioneer in the field of fusion energy, died yesterday of cancer. He was 76. (Quote by Marvin L. Goldberger, physics professor emeritus at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/metro/news_1m29rosen.html

Scripps at 100; Institution of Oceanography Marks a Milestone
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 27- It was 100 years ago this month that E.W. Scripps, Ellen Browning Scripps and community leaders began the Marine Biological Association of San Diego, later to become Scripps Institution of Oceanography. True to the ideals of it's founders, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has become one of the largest and most critically important centers in the world, not just for marine research, but for global science research.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sat/opinion/news_mz1ed27middl.html

Osteoarthritis Gains Attention
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 28- At least 40 million Americans at one time or another suffer from arthritis, the disease that at its least can be painful and at its worst debilitating. UC San Diego, through the initiative of Dr. Edward Holmes, vice chancellor of the UCSD School of Medicine, soon will be the first institution in the country to develop a research center devoted exclusively to the treatment and care of osteoarthritis patients. (Quote by Dr. Gary Firestein, chief of the UCSD School of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/splsect/news_mz1x28arthri.html

Illness and Age: Match Makes for Restless Nights
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 28- While a restful night's sleep is tougher to achieve as we get older, age has little to do with it. Still, almost 40 percent of people over 60 have trouble sleeping. The reason in most cases is ill health. (Quotes by Barbara Parry, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Sonia Ancoli-Israel, a professor of psychiatry at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/splsect/news_mz1x28illnes.html

Depression Lurks on Road Through Midlife
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 28- An estimated 6 million people between ages 35 and 55 have some form of depression. As the baby boomer generation ages, that number is expected to double in the next 30 years. (Quote by Dr. Dilip Jeste, chief of the geriatric psychiatry division at the University of California San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/splsect/news_mz1x28depres.html

Fear Not the Midlife Checkup
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 28-Many people older than 50 don't start thinking about protecting their health until something terrible happens to one of their friends. Doctors point out that some people older than 50 may fear regular checkups because they think of them as opportunities to hear bad news they can't do anything about. (Quote by Tom McAfee, physician in chief at UCSD Medical Center.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/splsect/news_mz1x28midlif.html

Prescription Drug Awareness Crucial
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 28- While the use of illicit drugs such as marijuana, covaliumcaine and LSD declines as people age, their use of prescription drugs such as Viagra, Valium and Prozac is increasing, local researchers say. (Quote by Dr. Dilip Jeste, professor of psychiatry and chief of the geriatric psychiatry division at the University of California San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/splsect/news_mz1x28drug.html

Game-Show Contestant Takes a Spin at Politics
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 27-UCSD student Daniel Watts, who is campaigning for governor, hopes gaining enough votes will pressure prominent gubernatorial candidates to address the fee hikes that have hit students across the state.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-watts27sep27,1,2124752.story

Student Will Do His Part by Reading Comic Books
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 29- With his one-issue campaign, which he hopes will prompt the major candidates to talk about student fees, UCSD student Daniel Watts has touted himself as the students' candidate. But those shoes are hard to fill.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/currents/news_1c29recall.html

Candidate Close-ups
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 28-The race to replace Gov. Gray Davis has drawn 135 candidates, a colorful cross-section of Californians that includes a handful of veteran politicians sprinkled amid a sea of novices. The following profiles show the wide variety of candidates running in this campaign, including Daniel Watts, a junior at UC San Diego.
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Repatriation Effort Earns Border Patrol Few Fans
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 29-In what U.S. officials call a rescue mission and critics dismiss as costly folly, thousands of illegal immigrants caught in Arizona this month are being flown in handcuffs to four Texas cities for deportation to Mexico -- in the hope that they will not try again to sneak across the border in Arizona's killer desert heat. (Quote by Wayne Cornelius, director of UC San Diego's Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fg-repats29sep29000201,1,7089483.story

Distant Data at Arm's Reach
San Diego Business Journal, Sept. 29- General Atomics announced last week that UC San Diego had granted it an exclusive license to market a line of software to manage huge, dispersed silos full of data. The staff at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, on the UCSD campus, has been working on the software since 1995, using an estimated $20 million in federal grants. General Atomics has put $5 million more into the effort to commercialize it.
http://www.sdbj.com/tofilesdbj.htm?user/user.fas/s=614/fp=3/tp=45?T=notrans&P=signon

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Architect Moshe Safdie to Speak at Campus Opening
San Diego Union-Tribune, September 28-Internationally renowned architect Moshe Safdie will be in San Diego to help open UCSD's new Eleanor Roosevelt College campus, which he helped plan and design, and to give a free talk on "The Architecture of Interaction" on Oct. 10.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/homes/news_1h28safdie.html

UCSD CONNECT Director Returns to Private Sector
The T Sector, Sept. 29- Fred Cutler, the Executive Director of UCSD CONNECT for the last three years, has decided to return to the private sector, effective October 1, 2003. Subsequent to the death of Bill Otterson in the fall of 1999, UCSD CONNECT embarked on a national search for a new director, and Fred Cutler emerged as the leading candidate.
http://www.thetsector.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=5807

Moving Pictures
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 28-Whether painting with pigment or words, artist/film critic Manny Farber directs the eye from detail to detail. The retired UCSD professor has hardly changed over the years and is still as prolific a painter as many artists half his age.
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Quality Care Requires Healthy Doctor-Patient Communication
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 28-As the over-50 population has increased, and as frustrated patients have become angry consumers, the medical profession has paid more attention to doctor-patient rapport. And doctors with poor bedside skills often are enrolled in remedial classes, such as the Physician Assessment and Clinical Education Program, or PACE, at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. (Quote by Dr. David Bazzo, PACE's co-director within the UCSD Department of Family and Preventive Medicine.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/splsect/news_mz1x28care.html

Colleagues Aim Spotlight on UCSD Art
San Diego Union-Tribune, Burl Stiff, Sept. 26-The Colleagues, a support group for the Stuart Collection at UCSD, has become a community relations force for the collection rather than a fund-raising group. Their luncheon speakers have included a wide variety of speakers including Virginia Woolf.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/currents/news_1c26stiff.html

'Soul' Marries Movement and Movies
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Sept. 28-Just in time for Malashock Dance's 15th anniversary, choreographer John Malashock is unveiling "The Soul of Saturday Night," a dance film of original choreography set to songs by Tom Waits and created in conjunction with UCSD-TV filmmaker John Menier.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/arts/news_1a28depoyen.html

Opinions Strong on Racial Data Initiative
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 29- With 135 names on the recall ballot Oct. 7, there's a lot for California voters to think about. Many have probably missed Proposition 54, which amends the constitution to prohibit state and local governments from using race, ethnicity, color, or national origin to classify current or prospective students, contractors or employees in public education, contracting, or employment operations. (Quote by Takashi Fujitani, a UC San Diego history professor.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20030929-9999_1n29prop54.html

University of South Florida Plays Key Role In Region's Economic Development
Tampa Tribune, Sept. 27- The Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce's recent trip to learn about San Diego's biotechnology economic development success story provided important insights for the Tampa Bay area's business community, government officials and the University of South Florida. The group commended the fact that San Diego business community leaders realize the importance of discoveries made at UC San Diego, and how they affect the business community.
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