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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union [Cir. D. 217,324) (Cir. S. 339,788)

Loa Angeles, CA (Los AngelH Co.) Times (San Diego Ed.)

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F.sr. 1888 Undergraduate marine • s 1ence course created By Mfcr~t-Blair · .. Slaff Writer

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S aying, Rape Force ounty to Consider Freeway Call Boxes By C~[[ PAIRLEY, 'l'ime Staff Wnter

give st udents an outstanding envl- ron!'1_ent for study in a growing and exc1tmg field." . "The only thing that could possibly tmprove the arrangement would be a $20 million endowment," said an en- thusiastic Hughes. Letters outlining the program will go out soon to 1,000 graduating high school seniors aero, the nation, and the co~rse will open In the fall with an e~tlmated 30 to 35 students, ac• co rd mg to C. Joseph Pusateri, dean of the USO College of Arts and Sci- ences. Evans said that high school stu- dents seeking an undergraduate de- gree in marine or ocean sciences at present must go to the Ea t Coast or to_ a. fow offerings in the Ohio ~nd M1ss1ss1ppi area, because there are no such undergraduate programs in the West. See USD on age B-4

. One of the western United States' f~r t u~dergraduate courses in ma- rme sc1e~ces was launched here yes- te:day with the formal signing of a Jornt agreement between tb~ver- s1ty of San OieJ!o and the Hubbs=En World Re. earch Institute. ''San Diego is a major national oceanographic and marine research center, yet for years we have turned away hundreds of young students in- terested in the field because there are no undergraduate studies courses here," said William E. Evan ' presi- dent and executive director of the institute. The Jomt venture brings together what USO President Author E. l!ughe. called the "perfect combina- t~o?'.' of the university's academic fa- cihhes, ~he Hubbs research work and the marme expertise of Sea World to

boxc became a public issue after the death or USO honor student Anne Cath rine Swanke in No- vember and the rape of the 'l:l - year-old woman whose car broke down on Interstate 5. Th1clicke said a Joint task force of state, county and city offic1als has not yet been formed to study the call box su but "I'm working with the staffs of both Caltrans (the late Department of Trans- portation) nd the city. We've been workin togeth r ince January and we are sharing information and talking about the different (fund- ing) option ." Some of those option include I.I!' mg county and city general funds and local and state road funds. Other options might include plac- ing a charge on intrastate teie- p n bll , Thleitck said. 'The other point of view is that it's very costly and it may not be as cost-effective an exp nditure as road maintenance.' -Ralph Thie ldce County transportation spec,ahst Stuart H ~ey, cluef of the Cal- trans traffic afcty branch, said his office would "cooperate with any local agency that wants to proVide 1nstallation for the call box sys- tem." But proposals that the state agency fund the system, as some people have suggested, ''is not hkely und r the current con- straints on funds for highway con- struction projects," Harvey =d. Off cials also are exploring the p0SS1ble use of a mobile telephone system which, according to prelim- inary information, appears to be 1 costly that the other systems being conSJdered because no tele- phone cable have to be laid. Linda Bonn1ksen, assistant pub- he relations manager for PacTel Mobile Access, said that a cellular (mobile) communications system should be available in San Diego County by late June or early July. Calls mad from a cellular tele- phone are sent to a receiver which 1s connected to a regular telephone network. Bonmksen said. The calls are sent to a mobile telephone switching cehter and relayed But, Bonniksen said, it's too earLy to tell whether a cellular call box system is more economical. Be- cause this 1s the first attempt to place a mobile cellular telephone in a fixed location. she said. "The equipment 1s still in the testing stages and prices haven't been set." The freeway call box system is popular with motorists in Los An- geles, Thiehcke said. But, he said. "The other pomt of view is that it's very costly and it may not be as cost-effective an expenditure as road maintenance. It's just one more thmg competmg for a limited amount of money."

: Marine science program offered

:..<~continued from B-1 Students will be able to choose be- tween a marine ·c1ence major that will rrquire a second majo in a "hard" scienc~ su,b as ch mistry, bi- ology or physics, or an ocean studies major, which will require an addi- tional non-science major such as an- thropology, history, economics or in- ternational relations. "There is no question, we all gain the students, the university, Hubbs and the people who will come to teach and do research here." Evans said. 'There are outstanding graduate degree courses offered in the West such as those at the Scripps Institu'. tion . (Ii . Oce~nography," and high- qual!,y md1v1dual courses m marine sciences at San Diego State Universi- ty and other California campuses said Evans. ' But no Western school offers a full undergraduate course leading to a baccalaureate degree in oceanogra-

phy, he said. Most oceanography students in the ~est are seeking doctoral degrees, 10tend.ing to go on to teaching or re- search work, according to Evans. ''This leaves a tremendous vacuum in the growing field of marine tech- nology, where there are many new and interesting jobs opening up," he said This work is now done bv recent doctoral recipients or by graduate students still working toward their

doctorate, but it is an expanding and legitimate field of work for bac- calaureate degree holders, said Evans. Pusateri said the graduated stu- dent would have a wide held of inter- ests open upon graduation. The joint venture is expected to be a . mutually beneficial relationship, with the university being able to offer a new baccalaureate program without the investment m expensive research equipment that Hubbs al-

ready has, and providing students di- rect access to experts in the field of both oceanographic research and the marine mammal expertise of Sea World. For its part, Hubbs - a private, non-profit marine research comp::iny partially financed by Sea World - w~ll gai~ in stature through its affili- ation with a university, enhancing its chances of winning substantial re- search grants from corporations and foundations, such as the Nat10nal Sci- ence Foundation.

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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454)

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USD plans undergrad marine degree t 1, Cf D )t g }"1t i;.(f By J ph ThesCen 1 work io this field," Evam said. superb opportunity to consider a career in this Tnbune Education Writer ,- • "Up to now, if they wanted to get into marine field." . . . ) ln a rare collaboration between a university studies, they probably would have to go to the H_ug_hes said the degree program,. which will and a research orgaruzation, the U~ of East Coast, or Ohio, where they do have such begm m the fall, has been under cons1c!erat10n by

) San Di~o and Hubbs-Sea World Research Insti- tulewill offer what is believed to be one of only a few undergraduate marine studies programs on The academic partnership was announced dur- mg a news conference yesterday at the Sea World Marina. where USO President Author E. Hughes and Hubbs' President W111iam E. Evans signed "I keep getting requests from high school stu- dents, asking where they could do undergraduate the West Coast. the agreement.

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USO anti H~bbs for three years. "We spec1fically chose the undergraduate pro- gram because the graduate program 1s very well covered by ~rip!)S Institution ?f Oceanographr, (a pa~ of Uruvers1ty of Califorma at San Diego), San Diego State Umversity has a Center for Marine Studies, where _a variety of marine cours- es can be taken, but 1t IS not a degree program. he said. . . .

"There are a few marine biology programs on the West Coast, at University of Calif~-Santa Barbara and UC-Berkeley, but they are or tn'a- "What makes this program unique on the West Coast is that it is for both science and non-science "USD's outstanding academic reputation and the uniqueness of this program should be espe- cially appealing to students, who will now have a majors. rine biology majors only.

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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454) MAR 25 1985 Jlllat'• P. c. e

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l-§eminar to explore ink of diet, _c~_!!Cer cer will be discussed at a semmar on April 3 at the University .of San Diego. The public is invited to attend the meeting, which features three county medical and dental experts. The event is sponsored by tbt_American Cance! Society. The campus seminar will be held in the Rose Room on the northwest side of campus. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., and the program runs from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Cost is $2 per person. . To reg_ister by phone, or for more mformation, call Rose at the Ameri- can Cancer Society 299-4200. How diet is l~~

University of San Diego will s~l-4 ~t.eHfamiigton speak- inlf'on '"l'bt B~ops' Pastoral Letter: A Democratic Socialist's Response" at 8 p.m. Thursday in Camino The- atre on campus. There is no char~

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