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Article: Students from SARS-affected regions denied enrollment at UC-Berkeley
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- May 6, 2003
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Kim-Mai Cutler
University Wire
05-06-2003
(Daily Californian) (U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif. -- University of California-Berkeley banned foreign students from SARS-affected regions from enrolling this summer, in a move that could cost the university nearly $2 million, Chancellor Robert Berdahl announced Monday.
The ban will turn away about 600 students in the English Language Program from four SARS-affected areas including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore.
Already reeling from millions in proposed cuts from the state, the university will have to absorb this additional loss.
The new policy is based on recommendations from the Center for Disease Control.
This UC-Berkeley Extension program will ...