Word: california
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Street resident reported that an unknown maleasked her to wire $4,500 to Reedley, California onFeb. 27. He allegedly promised her a share of$525,000 in sweepstakes winnings after completionof the transfer...
...Albert Carnesale left his position as Harvard's provost and leaped into the eye of a storm as he assumed the chancellorship of the University of California at Los Angeles. Carnesale arrived at UCLA in the wake of the passage of state Proposition 209, the popularly approved initiative that barred state universities from considering race as a factor in admissions decisions. Carnesale knew that he had no choice whether to obey the law; if he did not, he would be fired...
Carnesale's bold disdain for fashionable public opinion is made even more extraordinary by the recent willingness of the University of California system's governing board to issue symbolic proclamations to win favor among racial minorities disenchanted with 209. In mid-January, the UC Board of Regents held its first meeting of the year, where a group of regents hinted that they would propose a symbolic vote whereby the board would voice their support for affirmative action in UC admissions...
Knowing full well that UC admissions procedures are governed by Proposition 209, the regents desire to send a signal to correct the opinion among some California racial minorities that the UC system does not want them. "We have tainted ourselves, rightly or wrongly, that we are adverse to diversity," regent William Bagle said. Carnesale chooses not to waste his time such fruitless symbolic gestures...
Another former winner, Shannon Jackson, left the department of English and American Literature and Language for the University of California at Berkeley before coming up for tenure. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Margo I. Seltzer '83 remains at Harvard...