A Sampling of Clips for
October 23, 2002
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Increase
in enrollment at UC campuses
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 23 –
Enrollment at UC Irvine has hit record levels this fall, jumping
by the largest number of students since the university opened
in 1965. The increase was propelled by an 11.7% gain in graduate
students over last year. Adding graduate students has been a
goal of all UC campuses. UCSD increased its
graduate student population by 10.7%.
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You
were silly like us: your gift survived it all
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 23, Pg. 1
–Quincy Troupe, UCSD
literature professor and California poet laureate, informed
UCSD officials that he lied about having received
a college degree. When state officials confronted him with the
discrepancy on his resume, he resigned from the poet laureate
post.
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article appeared in:
San Diego Union Tribune, letters to
the editor, Oct. 23
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No
lie! Survey of students finds more dishonesty and less regret
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 23 –
The Josephson Institute of Ethics in Marina del Rey released
results of a survey of high school students regarding cheating,
lying and stealing behaviors. The survey found significant increases
in all three behaviors since the last survey in 1992 as well
as a diminished sense of regret over those behaviors. Article
cites the Quincy Troupe incident as an example
of lying.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/news/news_8n23lying.html
The
hunt for a sniper: the killer
New York Times, Oct. 23, Pg. 19 –
With law enforcement and the news media as his foils, the roving
sniper is playing, and so far winning, a contrary and cold-blooded
game of cat and mouse in the suburbs and exurbs of Washington.
(Quotes Reid Meloy, clinical professor of psychiatry
at UCSD).
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article appeared in:
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct 23
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/news/news_8n23dialogue.html
ABC stands for Asian brown cloud
San Diego Union Tribune, Neil Morgan,
Oct. 23 – Scientists and government people from the United
States, Asia, and the U.N. will convene at Scripps Institution
of Oceanography for a meeting of Project Asian Brown
Cloud to reach consensus on the significance of the cloud. Two
Scripps scientists have been at the apex of
this environmental investigation: Nobel laureate and professor
Paul J. Crutzen, and V. Ramanathan,
who has formed a crucial research unit at Scripps
called C4: Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate. (Quotes
Scripps director Charles Kennel).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_2m23morgan.html
Lieberman
spotlights economic troubles
San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 23,
Pg. 4 – Sen. Joseph Lieberman attacked President Bush’s
management of the economy in a San Francisco speech Tuesday,
while portraying himself as a Democrat who will be kind to business.
(Quotes UCSD political scientist Nathaniel
Beck).
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/10/23/MN55595.DTL
Mexican
power plants get positive review in report
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 23 –
A San Diego Dialogue report on border development and air quality
concludes that two power plants being built in Mexicali will
“only marginally” affect air quality in the air
basin shared with Imperial County. San Diego Dialogue, based
at UCSD, is an organization that works to advance
solutions to the cross-border region’s long-term economic,
environmental and equity challenges.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/business/news_1b23air.html
Mexican
tourist resort is site of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
forum
San Antonio Express News, Oct. 23
– Nearly 10,000 government leaders, entrepreneurs and
academics descend on Mexico’s priciest tourist resort
this week for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. Concerns
about terrorism will likely top the agenda. (Quotes Richard
Feinberg, director of the APEC Study Center at UCSD).
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Hospital
rating system could trigger larger co-pays for patients
San Diego Daily Transcript, Oct. 23
– Nine San Diego County hospitals are considered top tier
and under a new rating system based solely on cost warrant a
higher co-payment for members of Health Net’s HMO. These
include Sharp and Scripps hospitals. UCSD Medical
Center and Thornton Hospital are ranked in the low co-payment
level.
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Promoting
terrorism on UCSD servers
California Review, Oct. 22 –
The Che Café appears to be in violation of federal law
by hosting the web sites of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party
(PKK) and Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). UCSD
officials are aware that Che is hosting the PKK site on the
burn.ucsd.edu server, but the California Review has discovered
that the Che Café is also hosting the MRTA Web site.
(Quotes Nick Aguilar, director of student policies
at UCSD).
http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~calrev/fall2002/promoteterror.html
North
Korea threat re-emerges
San Diego Union Tribune, Opinion,
Oct. 23 – Stephan Haggard, the Lawrence
and Sallye Krause professor at the UCSD Graduate
School of IR/PS, reviews U.S. foreign policy toward North Korea
since the mid-1990s as well as the economic and political forces
at work in North Korea.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/opinion/news_mz1e23haggar.html
