Campus undergoes telecommunications renovation, Hayward Review
The roadblocks at Cal State Hayward this summer may be a pain, but they are for a good cause.

Foreign student program helps avert culture shock, Hayward Review
The Speaking Partners program, run by instructor Karen Privitt, sets foreign and American students together for conversations on whatever subjects they choose.

City, county, Chico State University hit hard by budget cuts, Chico Enterprise-Record
Chico and Butte County are looking at $2 million cuts, Paradise will have to chop $900,000, and Chico State University was unpleasantly surprised by budget the state Senate passed over the weekend.

Battle over state budget shifts from Senate to Assembly, San Diego Union-Tribune
Despite deep fiscal trouble, a $98.9 billion budget approved by the Senate Sunday night holds overall spending at about the same level as last year and may contain a small increase.

Budget plan stalls in state Assembly, Sacramento Bee
California Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson locked lawmakers in the state Capitol overnight Monday after a middle-of-the-night attempt to pass a budget compromise fell short by nine votes.

A Budget Process Built to Fail, Los Angeles Times
For a California Legislature that couldn't agree on very much this budget season, there is surprising consensus on one point: its own ineptitude.

Assembly in No Rush to Take Vote on Budget Deal, Los Angeles Times
The Senate-approved measure is debated behind closed doors. Leaders try to round up support as lobbyists seek last-minute changes.

Schools escape heaviest cutbacks, San Jose Mercury-News
Educators bracing for financial disaster were somewhat relieved that the Senate budget plan -- which slashes about $2 billion in school funding -- isn't as damaging as they expected.

Higher -- and higher education, San Francisco Chronicle
UC, CSU fee hikes threaten scholastic dreams.

Bible break helps students, study says, Sacramento Bee
A secular group evaluates an off-campus program at Oakland public schools.

U.S. Visa Rules Deter Students From Abroad, Wall St. Journal
A summer trip to the U.S. for a total-immersion dunk in the English language -- a rite that usually sends hundreds of thousands of foreign students chattering around the country -- has lost much of its cachet this year.

Applicants at the gates, Christian Science Monitor
Only 1 in 10 are accepted each year at Yale. The school could lock the gates, never host another tour, and the torrent of 18,000 applications would hardly slow.

Editorial: A higher standard, Fresno Bee
Fresno State wisely raises the bar for admission of athletes.

Daniel Weintraub: It's time for the elites to quit all their whining, Sacramento Bee
The people have called an election, and the political elites of both major parties hate it. So does big business and, for the most part, the media. But it's amazing the level of ownership real people feel over the recall. It is something they have done in defiance of California's ruling establishment.

Dan Walters: Davis, facing recall, swims in a sea of political uncertainty, Sacramento Bee
Gray Davis, even more than most politicians, loathes situations whose outcome he cannot predict and/or fully control, but now finds himself swimming in uncertainty, his fate at the mercy of forces that he can only marginally influence.

Editorial: Fix Broken Budget Process, Los Angeles Times
It is better to have a wretched budget than no budget at all. That is the depth to which California has fallen.

Recall's strange bedfellow, San Francisco Chronicle
Renegade University of California Regent Ward Connerly didn't plan it this way, but his Oct. 7 ballot initiative promoting a "colorblind society" could end up helping Gov. Gray Davis fight off a recall attempt on the same ballot.

Davis Takes Recall Fervor in Stride, Los Angeles Times
He appears unruffled in a visit to a Hollywood school. Schwarzenegger meets with his advisor while 90 potential candidates take out candidacy papers.