Author: Public Affairs

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Monterey Bay provides a happy home for rockfish. Reddish, canary, and cowcod rockfish live in the deep reefs, while blue, brown, and china rockfish stay closer to shore. This myriad of species attracts fishers to the bay and gourmands to the area’s seafood restaurants. But rockfish numbers are slowly dwindling, and the tastiest…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Bouquets of aromatic sweet peas and clusters of dramatic sunflowers are two of the most popular items sold at the organic produce and flower stand at UC Santa Cruz, and they’ll be back this year when the cart opens on Tuesday, June 4. The market cart features picked-that-morning fruit, vegetables, and flowers that…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The work of graduating visual arts students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will be on display the weekend of June 15-16 from noon to 5 p.m. in studios throughout the campus’s Baskin Visual Arts complex. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Board of Studies in…

Business, Education, And Government Leaders Focus On The Technology Revolution In The Classroom SANTA CRUZ, CA–The California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), the leading partnership of officials from academia, government, and industry in California, held a two-day "education summit" this week at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Attendees at the summit, held on…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Forget the Border Patrol. Forget Proposition 187. Forget fences, and barbed wire, and high-speed chases. The debate over immigration has become so distorted by anxiety over illegal immigration that the rhetoric on both sides fails to capture the complexity of what’s at stake. In a thoughtful new book titled The Immigration Debate: Remaking…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The last public talk of the 1995-96 Wednesday Night Lecture Series takes place on June 12 with a presentation by poet and UC Santa Cruz professor Peter Gizzi. Presented jointly by the Humanities Division at UCSC and the Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, the talk is free and open to the public.…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Oil tankers traveling through California waters pose a grim threat to marine organisms, for which an accidental oil spill could mean death. Most public attention focuses on slippery surface oils that coat the fur of marine mammals and the feathers of seabirds in a deadly black goo. But some little-noticed oil also trickles…

Book Is Accompanied By Cd-ROM Containing A Version Of The Program And Music Samples SANTA CRUZ, CA–Commander Data; HAL 9000; Robbie, the robot– speculation on the potential of computers has generated some extraordinary fictional characters. In recent years, a number of real-life computer programs have emerged that are nearly as remarkable as their fictional counterparts,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–There’s no more lovely setting for an afternoon of poetry and classical music than the Alan Chadwick Garden at the University of California, Santa Cruz. With roses in bloom, the garden will be the backdrop for "A Garden of Poetry and Music," a free public reading by four poets on Saturday, June 1,…

SANTA CRUZ–The University of California, Santa Cruz, is reorganizing its recycling program. By June 1, it will begin placing 300 new collection bins around campus in an effort to recycle more materials otherwise destined for the city landfill. A $56,000 grant from the state Department of Conservation has provided start-up funds for UCSC to enact…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Longtime viewers of "60 Minutes" may recall the weekly segment known as "Point Counterpoint," in which a female and a male commentator put up their intellectual dukes over issues of the day. Even those wise pundits could not have realized how closely their verbal sparring resembled a genetic joust of the sexes that,…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The public is invited to a free lecture on Wednesday, May 29, by UC Santa Cruz anthropologist Shelly Errington, who will discuss the rise and fall of "authentic primitive art" and some current transformations of related ideas and artifacts. Her talk, entitled "The Death of Authentic Primitive Art . . . and Other…