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Volume 1
Number 16
Feb. 3-9, 1997
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In King lecture, Cornel West delivers message of challenge, hope
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The keynote speaker at UCSC's annual Martin Luther King Jr.
Convocation, Harvard scholar Cornel
West said the slain civil rights leader's legacy should be
viewed in the context of
an ongoing struggle for social
justice.(Photo: Shmuel Thaler)
Multi-object spectrograph helps keep Lick Observatory at forefront
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A miniature forest of robotically controlled optical fibers has sprouted from the end of the 120-inch Shane Telescope at Lick Observatory, letting astronomers capture and analyze faint rays of light from dozens of distant stars or galaxies at the same time. (More photos)
UCSC alumna establishes library
endowment
A best-selling romance novelist has made a gift to
UCSC--her alma mater--to establish an important library endowment.
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