CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : LA JOLLA : University Seeks to Use King Name
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UC San Diego is seeking the endorsement of the family of Martin Luther King Jr. to rename the university’s Third College after the slain civil rights leader. Cecil Lytle, Third College provost, said negotiations with the family are nearly complete. An agreement would lead to “substantive connections” between the Third College, an undergraduate school, and the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, largely through student internships, he said. King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, remains wary of any plans by San Diego to honor King because two previous efforts failed. The San Diego Port District last year refused to name the new convention center after King, and in 1987, city voters rescinded a City Council decision to rename a major street after King.
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