Governor Inaugurates New UC Campus
On a remote foothill site, Gov. Gray Davis inaugurated a 10th University of California campus Friday. The UC Merced campus is the state’s first since UC Santa Cruz opened in 1967, and will serve the San Joaquin Valley.
“You had a dream ... You were not going to take no for an answer,” said Davis, who committed more than $230 million in state funds to the UC Merced campus over three years, despite its potential threats to endangered species and doubts inside the UC system about funding a new campus.
The campus is expected to open in 2004.
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