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Serving in Africa
Arusha Project Offers Students
Opportunity to Help Fight AIDS, Teach
Rachel Keeler wanted to learn more about Africa, its peoples
and its cultures. She wanted to experience its daily way of life.
“There were a lot of things I wanted from Africa,” the
political science major said. “So I wanted to give back in return.”
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Staff, Faculty, Students Vie for Best Costume
 Hundreds of people packed the Price Center Plaza to witness this year's ghoulishly entertaining Halloween costume contest. Many of the contestants got into the spirit of their characters while on the stage, much to the delight of the audiences and judges.
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It's Raining Pumpkin
A giant hollowed out pumpkin the size of an adult
brown bear was filled with candy treats 
and then situated on top of the tallest hall on campus.
Crowds of people on the Muir quad trained their eye
on the sky, expecting the hulking pumpkin to become
the product of destruction as it is toppled more than
11 stories from the roof of Tioga Residence Hall.
The thunderous crash of the pumpkin as it met the
concrete floor was definitely a sound for all to hear.
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Link Between Ovarian Cancer,
Vitamin D Status Seen Worldwide
Using newly available data on worldwide cancer incidence,
researchers at the
Moores Cancer Center at UCSD have shown a clear association between deficiency
in exposure to sunlight, specifically ultraviolet B (UVB), and ovarian cancer.
UVB exposure triggers photosynthesis of vitamin D3 in the body. This form of
vitamin D also is available through diet and supplements.
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New Species and New Records of Marine
Species Discovered in the Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument
A three-week scientific expedition to French Frigate
Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine
National Monument returned to Honolulu with the discovery
of many new species and a better understanding of
marine biodiversity in the Hawaiian Archipelago.
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San Diego's Supercomputer Center Boosts
Storage Capacity to Mind-Boggling Numbers
UCSD Now First for Data Storage
Capacity of any Educational Institution Worldwide
If the Industrial Age relied on ore, the Digital Age
relies on storage. None 
of our now-necessary devices, from the most fearsome
research-computing arrays to run-of-the-mill office
computers to cell phones to iPods, can work without
storage. That’s why Richard Moore, director
of production systems at the San Diego Supercomputer
Center smiles as he ponders the new IBM tape drives
being added to the storage “silos” in
the center’s already crowded computer room.
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Political Scientists and Students to
Analyze Vote at Election Night Event
The campus community is invited to join an Election
Night Party and Analysis Roundtable, Tuesday, Nov.
7 at Round Table Pizza at the Price Center from 7:15
p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Leading experts from the department
of political science will review trends and results
in national, state and local elections. More
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International Think Tank to Provide
Homeland Security Training for California Officials
The UCSD-based Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
(IGCC) will train California government elected and
appointed officials to prepare for any possible terrorist
attack or natural disaster under a $500,000 grant
from the California State Office of Homeland Security.
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Women's Soccer Team Wins
Far West Region Championship
The 3rd-ranked UC San Diego women’s
soccer team defeated 18th-ranked Seattle Pacific University to capture the 2006 NCAA Division II Women’s Soccer Far West Region Championship on Saturday afternoon in front of 951 fans at Triton Soccer Field on the UCSD campus. The win avenges UCSD’s loss last year at the hands of Seattle Pacific who captured the 2005 Far West Region title by a 2-0 score in Seattle, propelling the Falcons to a National Runner-Up finish. More
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Gift to Preuss School in Support of Transportation,
Scholarships
Students attending the Preuss School don’t have
to worry as much about transportation troubles this
year thanks in large part to support from The Jack
in the Box Foundation. For the fourth year in a row,
The Jack in the Box Foundation is providing $25,000
for busses to transport students to and from Preuss,
an innovative public charter school for low-income
middle and high school students.
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What's New: Rady School of Management
What’s new this academic year? This Week@UCSD is
taking a
quick look at what’s in store for different areas of campus.
Here’s what the Rady School of Management is up to for 2006-07.
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Journalist Juan Williams to
Speak Nov. 17 at Mandeville Theatre
 Emmy
award-winning writer, radio and television correspondent
and author Juan Williams will speak on Enough:The
Culture of Failure Undermining Black America
from 5-6 p.m. Nov. 17 in Mandeville Auditorium. Sponsored
by Thurgood Marshall College and the African American
Studies minor, the lecture is free and open to the
public. More
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Back to Basics in Beijing
Charlie
Oates, chair of the theatre and dance department,
is a well-traveled movement coach. He has trained
actors in the grammar of expressive body language
around the world – in Australia and New Zealand,
in Sweden, Ireland, Hong Kong, Switzerland and Senegal.
But he has never had an experience quite like his
latest, in China. (And this is not only, he says,
because he braved Beijing rush hour on a bike.) More
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Open Enrollment opens!
Open Enrollment, when you can make changes to your benefits, will be Nov. 1–21.
The At Your Service Web site
has helpful information to help you choose and compare plans, find out about HCRA, and more.
* Find out more at the Benefits Fair, set for Tuesday, Nov. 7, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. in Price Center Ballroom;
or Monday, Nov. 6, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. in Medical Center Cafeteria (Hillcrest).
Time off for voting
General elections will be held Tuesday, Nov. 7.
UCSD can provide paid time off for voting in local, state, and federal elections.
Non-exempt employees can receive up to two hours leave with pay to vote in a local,
state, or federal election if they do not have time to vote outside of working hours.
Any additional time off is without pay.
Find out how it works.
Park for less
Transportation and Parking Services is offering reduced-price parking at $55 per month in east-campus lots
P704, P705 and P782
only. The Gilman Parking Office
will sell a limited number of the permits.
Upcoming Staff
Education and
Development Courses
UC San Diego Foundation Financial Statements
11/13/06
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Emotional Intelligence
and Peak Performance
11/8/06
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint 2003
11/14/06 and 11/16/2006
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Social Security
11/13/06
2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan
by Nancy Guy
When Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalists retreated to Taiwan in 1949, they brought Peking opera performers with them to strengthen their authority through a symbolically important art. Nancy Guy, an associate professor of music at UCSD, investigates the mechanisms through which Peking Opera was perpetuated, controlled, and ultimately disempowered, and explores the artistic and political consequences of the state's involvement as its primary patron. Her study provides a unique perspective on the interplay between ideology and power within Taiwan's dynamic society.
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