Archaeology goes wireless, Monterey Californian
By using more than a shovel, a California State University, Monterey Bay, professor hopes to find a long-lost wine cellar beneath the Carmel mission.

The wonder of water called for her to care, Press-Enterprise
Cal State San Bernardino art professor and conceptual artist Sant Khalsa and her cat Willow are surrounded by her photographs. Khalsa is one of 26 artists to win a state fellowship, based on her work on the Santa Ana River.

Retailer to appeal apparel ruling, San Luis Obispo Tribune
Bello's Sporting Goods plans to appeal a recent court ruling that prohibits the store from selling unlicensed merchandise labeled with the Cal Poly moniker, the store's attorney said Friday.

Final Page of Chapter, San Jose Mercury-News
A week of "lasts" is about to arrive at the old Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Main Library, which closes its doors as a center for learning on June 30, reopening a month later in its new home on the San Jose State University campus.

Fiscal crisis could give Chico State chance to plan, Chico Enterprise-Record
One of the few Chico State University administrators who went through the budget cuts of the 1990s says as bad as things seem to be, the institution will survive.

Budget crisis near mirror of earlier case, Chico Enterprise-Record
Few situations could more fully support the concept that history repeats itself than the current budget crisis at Chico State University.

Governor appoints trustee to Cal State governing board, Fresno Bee/AP
Gov. Gray Davis on Monday appointed Alice Huffman, president of the California State Conference of the NAACP, to California State University's governing board.

Ex-Lobbyist for Teachers Named to Cal State Board, Los Angeles Times
Alice Huffman, a retired teachers union lobbyist and political advisor to former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown Jr., was appointed to the California State University Board of Trustees on Monday by Gov. Gray Davis.

CSUCI gets grant to start child abuse center, Ventura County Star
California State University, Channel Islands, has received a $150,000 grant to start a regional Child Abuse Training and Technical Assistance Center that will serve 10 Southern California counties.

California budget impasse persists into crunch time, Contra Costa Times
With one week to go until the deadline for a new budget, state lawmakers remain split over how to cover a massive deficit and are making no progress toward a compromise.

UCD biolab proposal advances, Sacramento Bee
UC Davis' proposal to build a national biocontainment laboratory on campus has advanced to the final round of review by the National Institutes of Health, university officials announced Monday.

Affirmative action upheld, but high court sets limits , San Francisco Chronicle
Long before Monday's decision on affirmative action by the U.S. Supreme Court, the University of California had abandoned racial preferences in admissions, forced to do so by voters in 1996.

State Finds Itself Hemmed In, Los Angeles Times
Because of California's 1996 ban on racial preferences, the Supreme Court's rulings on race do not apply directly here.

Affirmative action ruling won't have much effect locally, Bakersfield Californian
Public colleges and universities in California don't use racial or ethnic preferences in college admissions.

Can Johnny read yet?, Christian Science Monitor
Once again US students have taken a reading test, and once again the results of that test are being called "mixed," with some pundits identifying them as proof of failure, and others insisting they demonstrate limited progress.

Supreme Court Splits on Diversity Efforts at University of Michigan, New York Times
The Supreme Court preserved affirmative action in university admissions today by a narrow margin but with a forceful endorsement of the role of racial diversity on campus in achieving a more equal society.

Colleges cheer affirmative action decision, Contra Costa Times/AP
Although the Supreme Court split on affirmative action, college administrators say the court's decisions will allow them to keep admissions policies that use race largely intact.

After 25 Years, a Road Map for Diversity on Campus, New York Times
Much of the secrecy that has shrouded the admissions processes at highly selective private colleges over the past quarter-century can be attributed to a basic ambiguity in the landmark Bakke decision.

Court Affirms Use of Race in University Admissions, Los Angeles Times
Justices render two close decisions involving the University of Michigan. One stresses the need for affirmative action, the other reasserts limits.

Decisions May Lead to More Lawsuits, Los Angeles Times
Observers on both sides of the affirmative action debate see the rulings as opening doors to disputes over how they should be carried out.

Editorial: A Welcome Affirmation, Los Angeles Times
The U.S. Supreme Court's message in Monday's affirmative-action rulings is clear and welcome: This nation's future depends on leaders trained by their exposure to "the ideas and mores of students as diverse as this nation."

Opinion: Negatives vs. Affirmatives, Los Angeles Times
Discrimination. Disparity. Disadvantage. Diversity. Across 30 years, the rationales have followed one another like mantras, justifying affirmative action in admissions offices, human resources departments and public programs.

Opinion: A Ruling That Only Goldilocks Could Love, Los Angeles Times
For 25 years, the country has struggled with the confusion over affirmative action left by the U.S. Supreme Court's deeply divided Bakke decision. Monday, the court returned to this subject and left even greater confusion in its wake.

Letters: Stop this fiasco, Fresno Bee
Fresno State President John Welty is out of touch with reality when he says that the Comprehensive Management System "has improved many essential services on campus."

Opinion: Swimming in talent, Fresno Bee
Like a warm summer thundershower, opportunities for cultural enrichment will drench Fresno during the California State University Summer Arts workshops June 29-July 26.

Dan Walters: California earned its ranking as worst-performing on budget, Sacramento Bee
The failure of Davis and lawmakers to wisely manage the bounty was a gross dereliction of public duty.

Viewpoints: Affirmative Action, USA Today
Twenty-five years after the Supreme Court outlawed affirmative-action quotas as a tool for increasing minority college enrollment, the high court provided needed guidance Monday for campuses struggling to achieve greater diversity.

Opinion: Looking for real leadership in California? Good luck, Fresno Bee
The budget mess in Sacramento underscores just how far California's political leadership has fallen since the glory days of the Golden State when ambitious leaders built freeways that tied this huge state together and created a world-class university system that gave everyone a chance to go to college.

Editorial: A 'baffled' nation, San Diego Union-Tribune
A public university, the U.S. Supreme Court has rightly ruled, has a compelling interest in admitting students diverse enough to dispel racial and ethnic stereotypes and thereby add to the education of all students.

George F. Will: Racial policy in a post-racial America, San Diego Union-Tribune/Washington Post
It was serendipitous. On the eve of the Supreme Court's rulings regarding the University of Michigan's two systems of racial preferences, for undergraduate and law school applicants, the Census Bureau reported that Hispanics have supplanted African-Americans as the nation's largest minority.

Several States Consider Action To Bar Oracle's PeopleSoft Bid , Wall St. Journal
Representatives of attorneys general from several states, including Texas and California, are discussing the possibility of coordinated legal action to try to block Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover of PeopleSoft Inc. on antitrust grounds.

Davis Seeks to Shift Focus to Recall Backers, Los Angeles Times
The measure isn't yet on a ballot, but governor takes aggressive strategy urged by Feinstein and blasts 'partisan mischief by the right wing.'

Recall drive has almost half on petition, San Francisco Chronicle
The recall campaign against Gov. Gray Davis has collected almost half of the signatures needed to qualify the measure for the ballot, county elections officials reported, as the deadline for organizers to prove themselves quickly approaches.