Author: Public Affairs

Human Resources Posts New Web Pages HR staff have been busy spinning new Web pages and improving old ones. The result is that a wide range of useful information on UCSC and UC Human Resources is now available to Web users. Along with expanding and reorganizing the existing Staff Human Resources Web page, new pages…

Roger J. Edberg has been appointed to the position of assistant superintendent/campus arborist. Edberg has most recently been the landscape manager at the UC Davis Arboretum. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in environmental horticulture from UC Davis, where his thesis work was on structural patterns in tree failures. He is a certified arborist and…

Although President Clinton proudly proclaimed the recent federal welfare reform effort "an end to welfare as we know it," political scientist Gwendolyn Mink writes in her new book Welfare’s End (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998) that the demise of welfare can be traced back almost to its origins. The latest assault is part of…

The following statement by University of California President Richard C. Atkinson refers to the admission of freshmen to the University of California for fall 1998, the first undergraduate class admitted without the consideration of race, ethnicity, or gender. We knew this would be a year of especially difficult and complex choices in the admission of…

Kelly Hemphill, a UCSC sociology student and assistant editor of the The Human Body, poses with one of the video’s stars–a graphic model used by psychologists to study touch patterns. This model shows the pattern most common among Americans (forearms are touched most frequently, the torso and neck least frequently). Models from other countries such…

A Farm and Garden apprentice uses a wheelbarrow to harvest weeds at the UCSC Farm. After a soggy winter, there’s nothing like the sights and sounds of spring to inspire the gardener in all of us. Come feed your inspiration during a free docent-led tour of the 25-acre UCSC Farm, where spring is literally bursting…

| | African American/Black | 219 | 223 | -1.8 | | Chicano/Mexican American | 898 | 826 | 8.7 | | Filipino/Filipino American | 347 | 295 | 17.6 | | American Indian/Alaskan Native | 96 | 82 | 17.1 | | Latino/Other Spanish American | 347 | 333 | 4.2 | | Euro-American…

A Kathakali dancer Each year, the Alumni Association brings an outstanding scholar or teacher to UCSC for one quarter as part of its Distinguished Visiting Professor program. This year, the program is dancing to a new tune. Instead of a single person, UCSC will host six: all actors and musicians of the Kathakali Kalakeli performance…

All alumni, current and prospective students, and their families and friends are invited to visit UCSC for the Banana Slug Spring Fair on Saturday, April 18. Last year, more than 4,250 people attended the fair. This year’s campus open house features a faculty lecture, alumni reunions, tours of the colleges and special facilities, student support-services…

Last year, defaults on federally guaranteed education loans cost U.S. taxpayers $2.5 million. In an effort to cut these losses, Congress enacted a law authorizing student loan guarantors to withhold a portion of defaulted borrowers’ wages to repay their loans. The California Student Aid Commission, the state’s student loan guarantor, announced recently that it will…

Alumna Holly Edde spent part of spring quarter ’97, her final quarter at UCSC, as a first-grade teacher’s aide at Live Oak School through the Oakes Serves program. During his student career at UCSC, senior Javier Jimenez has balanced his academic course work with volunteer experiences. He’s educated people about the AIDS virus for the…

Except for the Whole Earth Restaurant, campus eateries are closed over the spring break. The Whole Earth is closed on Monday, March 30, and open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday-Friday, March 31-April 3. They take phone-ahead orders at (408) 426-8255. Discover how easy and rewarding it is to get and stay in shape. The…