Author: Gwen Jourdonnais
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President-designate Yudof speaks with campus editors
UC President-designate Mark Yudof participated in a group interview last week with campus faculty/staff newspaper editors and reporters, answering questions about his plans, the budget, fee hikes, and more.
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Zipcar usage at UCSC zooms to top of car-share’s university programs nationwide
The Zipcar service brought to campus and environs by UCSC has become the most well-utilized and fastest-growing car-share program of any university in the nation.
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Vigorous dissent, job-seeking coexist at campus career fair
Protestors at Tuesday’s job fair at the University Center maintained a noisy presence, while job seekers filing into the event to check out their options said they understood the demonstrators’ right to have their say.
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Chancellor’s wife promotes post-graduate education
UC Hastings College of the Law professor Kelly Weisberg–who is also Chancellor Blumenthal’s wife–was on campus last week as a panelist in a workshop introducing potential post-graduate students to law school and advising them on law school admission and
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Spring Spotlight offers a slice of Slug life
Admitted students and their parents are exploring the campus as part of Spring Spotlight, an event for admitted students that provides an overview of the academic, residential, and student-life experience at UCSC.
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University Cafe aims to spark ‘conversations that matter’
There were tea and cookies, but this was no ordinary cafe. Thursday afternoon, about 20 members of the campus community came together in the College 9/10 Multipurpose Room for University Cafe, a conversational process meant to bring various perspectives to the table, provoke thought, and create action in pursuit of common aims. The idea is…
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‘Endangered’ features creatures both exotic and familiar
“Endangered,” Santa Cruz wildlife photographers Kennan and Karen Ward’s 4th annual Earth Day presentation, is at 7 p.m. April 19 at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz.
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McHenry Library moves its way into the 21st century
Over spring break, University Librarian Virginia Steel oversaw the move of materials from the original McHenry Library into the library’s recently opened new addition.
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Rx for Health Care: Graduates of UCSC’s innovative health sciences program are good medicine for California’s ailing health-care system
Diego Inzunza grabbed a laptop on his way past the laboratory inside Plazita Medical Clinic, where jaunty Mexican music danced from a large speaker on the counter. Holding the computer open like a clamshell in one hand, the 21-year-old UC Santa Cruz stude
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Campus security report shows progress, says more to be done
A report on campus security by the University of California following the Virginia Tech massacre last year outlines the gains the system has made on measures to protect students, staff, and faculty–but acknowledges that the effort is a work in progress. “The university can take pride in the many positive and proactive actions that it…
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Telecommuting could help staff balance work, life
The Staff Advisory Board will host a panel discussion for all staff on telecommuting and alternative work schedules.
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Faculty debate the use of police force in campus demonstrations
A resolution proposed by a professor at Friday’s Academic Senate meeting prompted an emotional response from both supporters and opponents before being referred to committee for further study.