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Volume 1 Number 24 Mar. 31-April 6, 1997 More News Calendar Awards and Honors Contracts and Grants New Faculty ~~Publications~~ ~~Research Update~~ Text-based Edition Past Online Editions Newsprint Editions	Banana Slug Spring Fair coming April 19 Alumni, current and prospective students, and their families and friends will come to the campus on Saturday, April 19, for the Banana Slug Spring Fair. Does buying a Volvo really put U.S. autoworkers out of work? Economists disagree. At UCSC, labor economist Lori Kletzer is embarking on a 12-month research project designed to improve our understanding of the impact of free trade on American jobs.	UCSC hosts second Scholars Day Professor of literature Michael Warren discusses the Literature Board's new "intensive" major with a prospective student at the recent Scholars Day. (Photos) "Language that dare not speak its name" Commentary by linguist Geoffrey Pullum on the Oakland school board's recent decision on Ebonics--and on the firestorm it created--appeared in the March 27 issue of Nature magazine.

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