A Sampling of Clips for 
June 2, 2006

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Buying Into China
Marketplace, June 1 -- The hottest stock in the world today trades under the ticker symbol BOF. Sadly for US investors it trades in Hong Kong. Shares in the Bank of China jumped 15 percent in its first day of trading today. Brought the bank a whopping $9.7 billion. You might say Chinese banks have had some corruption problems. (Story cites UCSD professor Barry Naughton.) More

In Memoriam, but No Sadness
The Los Angeles Times, May 30 -- Kaprow, the inventor of impromptu performances known as "happenings" and a longtime faculty member at UCSD, died in April at 79. He will be remembered in a program billed as "an afternoon of food, play, performance, words and noise" at the university's Visual Arts Facility, from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday. More

Running Free
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 2 -- Generally speaking, the quickest route from Point A to Point B on the UCSD campus does not involve scaling Wall E, summiting Roof T and leaping Fountain Z. But the seven young men striding along Library Walk on a sunny Sunday are hardly concerned with conventional notions of locomotion. Instead, they're straying from the straight and narrow, checking out features of the college environment that the typical, single-minded student might never notice. More

The Political Equator:
Urbanities of Labor and Surveillance
Archinect, June 2 -- “The Political Equator” begins June 9 at 7 p.m. in San Ysidro, California. Community-based NGO Casa Familiar will be the stage for a debate on the politics of immigration, labor and surveillance in the post-9/11 city and the effects of these on both the physical environment and on arts/architectural practice. (Article mentions UCSD Visual Arts professor
Steve Fagin.) More