Santa Clara University

Sigma Alpha Epsilon and its fellow Greek organizations are no longer welcome at Santa Clara University. The school announced it will phase out fraternities and sororities on campusby June 2003. The decision follows a five-month study of the Greek system by a committee of faculty, staff and students. The committee had recommended continuing the Greek system, with modifications. But the school's president says the university needs to support programs that will benefit the most students.

California courts last year found that Los Angeles County prosecutors withheld evidence, intentionally misled jurors or committed other types of misconduct in 31 criminal cases, according to an Innocence Project report released last week. The decisions involved convictions dating back as far as 1984 and were among 102 California cases in which the group found that courts identified prosecutorial misconduct. In 26 of the cases — nine in Los Angeles County — the courts cited the misconduct in decisions to order a new trial, set aside a sentence or bar evidence, according to the Northern California Innocence Project, which is based at the Santa Clara University School of Law. Los Angeles County accounts for about a quarter of the state's felony criminal filings and one-third of felony trials.

Dave Cox Republican state senator Republican state Sen. Dave Cox, 72, who served as minority leader of the Assembly from 2001 to early 2004, died Tuesday at his home in the Sacramento suburb of Fair Oaks. He had prostate cancer. Cox represented the sprawling 1st Senate District, a heavily Republican area that encompasses parts of 12 Sierra and foothill counties from the northeastern tip of California at the Oregon border to Mammoth Lakes in Mono County. His death leaves two vacancies in the 40-member chamber.

Dave Cox Republican state senator Republican state Sen. Dave Cox, 72, who served as minority leader of the Assembly from 2001 to early 2004, died Tuesday at his home in the Sacramento suburb of Fair Oaks. He had prostate cancer. Cox represented the sprawling 1st Senate District, a heavily Republican area that encompasses parts of 12 Sierra and foothill counties from the northeastern tip of California at the Oregon border to Mammoth Lakes in Mono County. His death leaves two vacancies in the 40-member chamber.

The University of Santa Clara has changed its name to Santa Clara University, or SCU, so it cannot be confused with other schools in California when its letters are used. The old initials, USC, could stand for the University of Southern California.

David Guillen of Capistrano Valley High School has signed a letter of intent to play baseball at Santa Clara University, Cougar Coach Bob Zamora said. Guillen, an outfielder, batted .308 with six home runs last season.

I just wanted to drop a short line to thank you for the nice article (The Malleys, Santa Clara's First Family, Nov. 9). Obviously, I'm prejudiced on the subject, but I don't know if anyone has treated it better. You painted a marvelous picture of something we're all enamored with here. Thanks again for an excellent piece of work. MIKE MCNULTY Sports Information Director Santa Clara University

Iwould like to thank you for the article on the Malleys (Santa Clara's First Family, Nov. 9). I appreciate your research and I know that my children will feel a little closer to their grandfather and great-grandfather because of it. They were both outstanding men, very caring with a great sense of humor and competitiveness. Your article brought back so many fond memories and made me realize once again how fortunate I am to have them as my foundation. TERRY MALLEY Football Coach Santa Clara University

The small village on the National Mall looks like something out of science fiction: dozens of unusually shaped buildings with solar panels protruding from their rooftops. The temporary homes are entries in the Solar Decathlon, a biennial contest designed to spur college students to pursue careers in science and engineering, encourage the development of green technologies and raise public awareness of energy efficiency issues. Hundreds of undergraduates worked as long as two years to plan, design and build the solar-powered houses.

Thirty-two men and women from across the U.S. have won the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships for study at England's Oxford University. Among the Rhodes winners are Florida State University football player safety Myron Rolle, who missed part of Saturday's game against Maryland because he was being interviewed for the scholarship. Rolle is a pre-med student and hopes to become a neurosurgeon. Scott W. Hugo and Christopher D. Joseph, both of UCLA, and Noelle R. Lopez of Santa Clara University were also selected.

Santa Clara University knew going in that it was not going to be easy taking on the likes of MIT and two-time champion University of Colorado in a national competition to design and build the best solar-powered house. On the way to the National Mall, where this week's Solar Decathlon is taking place, the trailer carrying Santa Clara's prefabricated house broke down -- twice. Then in the first round of judging, the school's entry finished 18th out of 20.

Azia Kim, the Fullerton 18-year-old who posed as a Stanford University freshman for eight months, joined the Army ROTC program at nearby Santa Clara University, where she received training and military equipment, university and Army officials said Tuesday. Army spokesman Robert Rosenburgh called Kim a "stealth cadet" who used her phony Stanford identity to participate in the Reserve Officer Training Corps program for two academic quarters before dropping out in March.

A "South of the Border" theme party has stirred outrage at a Jesuit university in Silicon Valley after students showed up at the bash dressed as Latino janitors, gardeners, gang members and pregnant teens. Photographs from the private, off-campus party organized by Santa Clara University students in late January appeared on the Internet soon afterward, prompting an outcry on campus. One image shows a partygoer with a balloon stuffed under her shirt, making her appear pregnant.

THE problem of California, an especially perplexing subset of the everlasting American problem, is how to make a home here. And in California, what is called "home" is always compared to other places: the places where some Californians wish they lived or the places they regard with unease.

Two hundred students at Santa Clara University have made history at the 138-year-old Jesuit school with a rally supporting legal abortion. The demonstration was the first of its kind at the university, where students cannot receive birth control at the student health center. Other Catholic universities have banned similar rallies. The university's president, the Rev. Paul Locatelli, wrote in a letter to the university newspaper that school should support the expression of different viewpoints.

1800s 1849 The newly approved California Constitution, stating that "the Legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement," calls for the establishment of a University of California. Twenty years will pass before classes begin. 1851 Santa Clara College (now Santa Clara University) opens. The California Supreme Court, itself in its first year of existence, charters California Wesleyan College in Santa Clara.

HIGHER education in the state got its start in the Gold Rush era, when Jesuits and Methodists both established institutions in the Northern California town of Santa Clara. And 155 years later, it's still unclear which group should be deemed the founders of the first college in California. It depends on one's definition of "first." Although California Wesleyan College received its charter from the state in 1851, Santa Clara University considers itself the first institution of higher learning in California because it was the first to begin teaching students that year.