Author: Public Affairs

Dear Colleagues: I am pleased to share with you this copy of "Making Diversity Work", the final report of the Chancellor’s Commission on a Changing Campus. The Commission worked diligently, seriously and creatively to assess the status of our campus’ commitment to diversity in this post-Proposition 209 era. Many thanks are due the members of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The culture we live in and the media messages we are exposed to form a myriad of attitudes that we tend to internalize. For most women in our society these attitudes include displeasure with their bodies, difficulty in expressing their ideas, fears of violence against themselves and their children, and a fear of…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–When a magazine collector in Japan described the allure of America to young Japanese, he told film director Chip Lord that America has an "aroma of enchantment." Lord knew he had just heard the title for his documentary-in-progress. That documentary, The Aroma of Enchantment (1992), will be cablecast on Community Television, Channel 72,…

The Chancellor’s Office is seeking UCSC faculty, staff, and administrators to act as mentors for North Monterey County High School’s Job Shadow Program. Approximately 45 volunteers are needed for this year’s program, which will take place on Thursday, April 16, from 9:30 a.m. to noon. During that time, 45 North Monterey sophomores will shadow UCSC…

Nancy Stoller of community studies was interviewed on KPCC radio (Pasadena) on the show Ebony 98, concerning her new book, Lessons from the Damned. Among other things, Stoller discussed minority voices and organizing strategies in the AIDS epidemic. Sociologist David Wellman was tapped for an Oakland Tribune story on how society segregates its athletes into…

The Millennium Committee is holding a town hall meeting for the entire campus community on Thursday, March 5, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Kresge Town Hall. At the meeting, the committee plans to present preliminary ideas about principles to guide UCSC and to solicit feedback on those ideas.

As residents of California, most of us are keenly aware of the extensive role that science and technology are playing in society today. Our region of the state, in particular, has become the base for a veritable revolution in computer and electronic technologies. Early in the 21st century, California will repeat this spectacular success, this…

Calling for an end to U.S. intervention in Iraq and in the Middle East, a group of UCSC students rallied on campus and marched downtown Wednesday, February 25. More than 100 students gathered in the Bay Tree Bookstore parking lot around 1 p.m. They stopped at all of the colleges before heading toward the town…

Registration begins today for UCSC Summer Session’s 1998 courses, which cover a wide range of academic subjects, from cell and molecular biology to video documentary production. This summer’s offerings also include an intensive language institute and a live-in academic program for high school students. UCSC’s Summer Session is divided into two five-week course blocks, with…

Meet conductor Nicole Paiement and learn about her life and work. In celebration of Women’s History Month, Paiement, associate professor of music and conductor of the University Orchestra, will be interviewed by violinist Valerie Chase on Thursday, March 5, in the Cowell Student Health Center Conference Room at 12:10 p.m. For more information, contact the…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The AIDS epidemic has spawned a range of organizational responses, from radical groups like ACT-UP to the more staid San Francisco AIDS Foundation. The origins and strategies of both groups are among those examined in the new book Lessons from the Damned: Queers, Whores and Junkies Respond to AIDS by sociologist Nancy Stoller…

New Book Captures The Experience Of Women In The United States From Precolonial Times To The Present Just in time for Women’s History Month, a new book about U.S. women’s history is appearing in bookstores. The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998) is dedicated to capturing the experience of women in…