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Complaints filed against USC, UC Berkeley over rape reporting
Students and activists joined together Wednesday to file complaints against colleges and universities nationwide, alleging that the schools have failed to follow federal laws, including those involving the reporting of sexual assaults and discrimination....Tags: Students, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dartmouth College, Teaching and Learning, New York City
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The triumph of progressivism: Graduation 2013 and 1968
Many of you soon-to-be college graduates are determined to make the world a better place. Some of you are choosing careers in public service or joining nonprofits or volunteering in your communities. But many of you are cynical about politics. You see...Tags: Graduation, Social Issues, Abortion, Martin Luther King Jr., Bodies of Water
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Her job: Stopping wage theft
SACRAMENTO — Julie Su doesn't back down from fights when she thinks employers are cheating their workers. In her two years as California's top labor law enforcer, Su has taken on scores of unscrupulous businesses. As state labor commissioner,...
Tags: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Employment, Urasawa, Justice System, Dan Logue
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Fossils radically alter ideas about the look of man's earliest ancestors
A treasure trove of 4.4-million-year-old fossils from the Ethiopian desert is dramatically overturning widely held ideas about the early evolution of humans and how they came to walk upright, even as it paints a remarkably detailed picture of early life...Tags: Harvard University, Paleontology, Bat (animal), Science and Technology, Elephant (animal)
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Immigration: A wider better welcome mat
As an immigrant and an engineer, I know the magnetic pull that the United States exerts on anyone who dreams of a career in science. From the time I watched NASA technicians on television during the first lunar landing in 1969, I resolved to get the...
Tags: Students, University of California, Davis, University of California, Irvine, Science and Technology, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Jerry Brown says new Bay Bridge won't open 'unless it's ready'
BERKELEY -- Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday he was "digging deeply into" the questions surrounding the safety of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and said he could not commit to a scheduled Labor Day opening for the new span. "I take it very...Tags: Executive Branch, Labor Day, Arts and Culture, Social Sciences, Chesapeake Bay Bridge
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Oakland police struggle to rebuild — using fewer resources
OAKLAND — It was a quiet evening by this city's standards, and still the police emergency lines were lighting up. As screams rang out behind her, a caller said her neighbor was being beaten. A woman reported that a front door down the street had...
Tags: Methamphetamine (drug), Conservation, Layoffs and Downsizing, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice
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Reagan the Berkeley basher
Responding to Seth Rosenfeld's May 10 Op-Ed article linking then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan's harsh condemnation of student protests in the 1960s to the eventual decline of the University of California system, reader Bruce Bates wrote in a letter...
Tags: Students, Colleges and Universities, Ronald Reagan, Teaching and Learning, FBI
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Students raised in foster system honored for completing college
Soon they’ll walk across stages at college campuses around Southern California, accepting their degrees and celebrating with classmates. But at a smaller, more low-key event on Friday, they were honored with a closer set of peers: fellow foster...
Tags: Students, Colleges and Universities, California State University, Northridge, University of California, Los Angeles, Schools
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NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope disabled
Planet-hunting scientists were dealt a major blow Wednesday when NASA officials announced that a crucial wheel on the Kepler space telescope had ceased to function and that the craft had been placed in safe mode. Even as NASA officials raised the...Tags: Science and Technology, NASA, Science
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Katherine L. Vaughns
Katherine L. Vaughns, a University of Maryland School of Law professor and secretary of the Center Stage board who immersed herself in the arts community, died of pancreatic cancer May 4 at a Sinai Hospital hospice unit. The Bolton Hill resident was 68....
Tags: Bill Clinton, Movies, Justice System, Lawyers, Arts and Culture
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Your brain on baseball: How hitters see a 95-mph fastball
Swing, batter, batter! In less time than it takes to say that phrase, Major League Baseball sluggers have their bat across the plate, and the best of them are golfing the shot over the outfield wall. How does the brain "know" when to swing?...
Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, Major League Baseball, Sports
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