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How UCSD Spent Over $500,000 on a Home Remodel That Never Happened

Cover Story | UCSD
Published April 30, 2008

Perhaps the most prized piece of real estate throughout the University of California, San Diego, is the seven-acre site of University House, home to the UCSD chancellor. The rambling adobe home, with its row of south-facing ...

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What recession?

Breaking News | UCSD
Published April 16, 2008

More UCSD spending: recently appointed UCSD health sciences counsel Anthony Perez is being paid an annual base salary of $210,000 and will be eligible for a mortgage loan not to exceed $1.33 million made by the ...

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Do You Feel Safe At School?

City College | Cover Story | Mesa College | SDSU | UCSD | USD
Published Aug. 30, 2007

On April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia, a sullen, troubled, twisted young man killed 32 people, injured 25 more, and then took his own life in the deadliest shooting ...

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The Bourgeois Marxist

Calendar Highlight | UCSD
Published Aug. 23, 2007

Herbert Marcuse was the single most famous person who ever taught at [University of California San Diego], and there was no living connection to him, no evidence of Marcuse having been there," says Professor Andrew Feenberg. ...

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Let Him Eat Cake

Crasher | UCSD
Published Feb. 8, 2007

I heard about a party near the UCSD campus, but because of other things I had going on that night, I didn't make it there until 11:00 p.m. I found the street easily enough, but parking ...

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Purge and Rally

Crasher | La Jolla | UCSD
Published May 4, 2006

March was an active month for parties -- St. Patrick's Day, March Madness, National Corn Dog Day. You didn't know there was a Corn Dog Day? Neither did I. A group of UCSD students did, however, ...

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Faculty Row -- Taxpayers Fund Million-Dollar Home Loans for UCSD Profs

Cover Story | UCSD
Published March 25, 2004

San Diego is one of the most expensive places in America to buy a house. But thanks to funds provided by state taxpayers, academics at the University of California are able to dip into a $6.8 ...

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Best of 2003: Best Sculpture Scavenger Hunt

Best of San Diego | UCSD
Published Dec. 25, 2003

The Stuart Collection UCSD Campus, La Jolla http://stuartcollection. ucsd.edu 858-534-2117 Take an hour or two to visit the 15 sculptures that make up this collection and you'll get a good introduction to the layout of the ...

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Best of 2003: Best Resource For Those Considering Adoption

Best of San Diego | UCSD
Published Dec. 25, 2003

Adoption Coalition of San Diego www.adoptioncoalition ofsandiego.com 619-542-7772 This volunteer coalition is made of agencies, lawyers, and consultants who work in adoptions, as well as representatives of the "adoption triad": adoptive parents, adoptees, and birth parents. ...

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UCSD Doc Slams Big-Gulp Culture

City Lights | UCSD
Published March 21, 2002

Dr. Kenneth Jones, a pediatric endocrinologist with UCSD, is concerned about the rise in Type II or "adult" diabetes in young people. "The age limit is moving down. Initially, it was thought to be a disease ...

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Best of 2000: Best Place To Read Old Newspapers On Microfilm

Best of San Diego | UCSD
Published Dec. 28, 2000

Geisel Library UCSD campus, La Jolla (858) 534-3336 The downtown public library has an extensive collection of local and national offerings. But you have to read the microfilm on cranky old machines in a room inhabited ...

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Best of 2000: Best Chamber-Music Bargain

Best of San Diego | UCSD
Published Dec. 28, 2000

UCSD's Chamber Music Series (858) 534-4090 The drawback to these concerts of quartet and trio music is Mandeville Auditorium, whose ugliness is matched by its variable acoustics (hint: sit in the back of the hall). But ...

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UCSD's gold

City Lights | UCSD
Published Aug. 17, 2000

How much does it cost state taxpayers to lure administrators to UCSD's La Jolla hilltop campus by the sea? Plenty. Latest example is Edward W. Holmes, new vice-chancellor of health sciences and dean of the UCSD ...

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UCSD, Big Money, and the Ball Club

Cover Story | UCSD
Published Feb. 24, 2000

When Robert Carr Dynes was named chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, in April 1996, he was said to be a man of humble origins. Born in Canada in 1942, the physicist who had ...

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