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04 Mar 2010 20:05

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U.S.: Students protest California’s frustrating university budget cuts

  • My heart and my support are with everybody and anybody who wants to stand up for public education. I salute those who are making themselves heard today in a peaceful manner on behalf of a great cause.
  • University of California President Mark Yudof • Regarding the major protests being staged at his and other universities across California and in 17 other states. The protests are in the wake of massive budget cuts to the state’s educational institutions, which have the effect of lowering the quality of education and raising the cost of tuition. For his part, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says the cuts are terrible, but necessary, due to the state’s $20 billion budget deficit. Rock, meet hard place. In between? An education system. source
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21 Nov 2009 13:51

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U.S.: Daily Poll: California schools and their sucktastic budget crisis


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20 Nov 2009 12:03

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U.S.: How big budget cuts screwed over the California university system

  • Dismantling this institution, which is a huge economic driver for the state, is a stupendously stupid thing to do, but that’s the path the Legislature has embarked on. When you pull resources from an institution like this, faculty leave, the best grad students don’t come, and the discoveries go down.
  • University of California-Berkeley dean of the College of Chemistry Richard A. Mathies • Describing how a $813 million budget cut has decimated the system, forced tuition hikes and created huge protests at universities throughout the University of California system. We’d straight-up say the budget cut was a terrible idea, but we just want to point out the level of gridlock getting ANY budget passed in California this year. The state’s jumbled constitution and laws have had the effect of screwing the state. Simple as that. • source
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16 May 2009 21:22

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U.S.: Michelle Obama gives commencement props to a tiny school

  • There are few things that are more rewarding than to watch young people recognize that they have the power to make their dreams come true. And you did just that.
  • First lady Michelle Obama • Giving a commencement speech to the first graduating class of the University of California, Merced, which is the newest school in the University of California system. Students and their families lobbied Obama to show up and give a speech, and she proved that her heart is not made of stone. See, students, dreams do come true! (This is way more uplifting that this drama.) • source
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02 Jan 2009 13:44

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Offbeat: Did diamonds kill off the mammoths?

  • The evidence Scientists recently found sediment from nano-diamonds, and other impact materials, around North American sites. These materials could not be created through average processes, says James Kennett, a scientist at the University of California.
  • What they think happened Scientists believe that these materials could have impacted the Earth from space 13,000 years ago, causing diamond “rain” that led to the extinction of the wooly mammoth and the early-human Clovis culture in North America.
  • The impact theorized“Imagine 1,000 to 10,000 atomic bombs detonating within a few minutes over two continents,” says Allen West, co-author of the Science Magazine paper in which the theory was first put forth. We’re not sure if we really want to. It sounds scary. source
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