University Of California

UC regents threatened Wednesday to place some unspecified limits on freshman enrollment next fall if the deficit-battered state government does not provide enough funding to the 10-campus university system. However, the regents avoided the definitive steps that the state's other public university system, California State, proposed earlier this week to reduce freshman admission and enforce earlier than usual deadlines for applications. At the urging of UC system president Mark G.

Despite recent improvements, Latino and black students continue to lag behind whites and Asians in becoming academically eligible to enter California's two public university systems, according to a state report released Tuesday.

Student leaders at California's two public university systems vowed Thursday to work toward rolling back Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget proposal to raise fees next year by about 7% at UC campuses and 10% at Cal States. Under the governor's plan, undergraduate UC student fees for state residents would rise about $495 to about $7,347 next year, including some individual campus costs but not including housing, books and other expenses.

California's two state university systems plan to sell $685 million of bonds over the next month to raise money from investors to pay off higher-interest-rate bonds and fund construction projects. California State University, the state's largest college system, will sell $360 million of bonds Thursday, according to the California treasurer's office.

Harold Miner, Sports Illustrated national player of the year and USC's all-time leading scorer, couldn't do it in three tries. Sam Clancy, Pacific 10 Conference player of the year, went 0 for 4. Then there was Nick Young, Gabe Pruitt and Lodrick Stewart, who came into the McKale Center on Thursday night and broke through at the raucous arena where so many distinguished Trojans before them had failed, lifting No. 22 USC to a historic 80-75 victory over the No. 19 Wildcats.

The Department of Energy on Monday cited the University of California for 15 violations of safety rules in 2005 involving nuclear weapons research at Los Alamos National Laboratory, including a case of mishandled materials where low levels of radiation were spread across several states. The violations would have carried a $1.1-million fine, but federal law waves such penalties for certain nonprofit contractors.

Time Warner Inc. will pay $260 million to end a securities fraud suit led by the University of California, resolving one of the last claims over the company's 2001 merger with America Online Inc., the university said. Investors claimed that America Online inflated its stock price prior to its merger with New York-based Time Warner by misrepresenting sales, revenue and subscriber numbers, the university said.

It costs twice as much to attend UC Davis law school today as it did four years ago. At UCLA's business school, fees have risen nearly 120% during the same period. Throughout the University of California, medical, nursing and dentistry students have faced similar hikes. The UC Board of Regents, meeting in Los Angeles this week, will consider an additional 10% fee increase for law and business schools.

University students will pay 10% more in fees at Cal State campuses in the fall and at least 7% more in the UC system to make up for what officials say are shortfalls in state funding. The raises were approved Wednesday over the protests of students, who complained that charges have nearly doubled in a decade without regard to the escalating costs of textbooks and housing.

The Energy Department on Tuesday awarded a seven-year contract to operate Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to an industry consortium that includes the University of California, which has run the lab since it opened in 1952. This year the lab was selected by the Energy Department to design and develop a new generation of nuclear bombs, known as the reliable replacement warhead. A report by an independent group of scientists warned that the project faced serious technical challenges.