A Sampling of Clips for
July 12, 2002
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Barriers
students faced count in university admission process
Wall
Street Journal, July 12 – The University of California
has adopted a new admissions system, one that proponents say helps
to equalize opportunity for all. Starting this spring, all applicants
were weighed under a process known as comprehensive review, which
awards extra credit for surmounting a wide range of personal,
family or psychological obstacles. (Mentions some UCSD
applicants).
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More crew,
bigger space station urged by NASA task force
Houston
Chronicle, Pg.
4, July 11 – The U.S.-led international space station should
be enlarged to house more astronauts or risk losing its scientific
justification, a task force of physicists, biologists and medical
experts reported. (Quotes Scripps Institution of Oceanography
director and chairman of the NASA Advisory Council Charles
F. Kennel).
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Biotech
Espionage
Publicbroadcasting.net,
July 9 –
The criminal case against UCSD Division of Biological Sciences
postdoctoral fellow Jiangyu Zhu and his wife Kayoko Kimbara
illustrates a growing concern that the biotech industry has become
a target of technology pirates. (Quotes UCSD director of
science communications Kim McDonald).
Biotech
San
Diegans muse about how to place city on higher path
San Diego Union Tribune, Neil Morgan letters, July
12 – Wayne Cornelius, UCSD director of the
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies and the Center for Comparative
Immigration Studies, writes about the lack of interest of local
officials in UCSD’s expertise on Mexico and immigration
issues, while UCSD is regularly approached by state and
federal officials. Steve Erie, UCSD director of
Urban Studies and Planning Program, notes some of UCSD’s
efforts to collaborate with the community.
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/metro/morgan/20020712-9999_6m12morgan.html
