Campus News

Because the availability of parking spaces on campus is limited, the University Police Department is increasing parking enforcement. A recent survey showed that the majority of people receiving parking citations on campus either have no permit, have a permit which is not valid in the lot where their vehicle is parked, or are parked at…

Two new oral histories focusing on the area’s agricultural history have been published by the University Library’s Regional History Project. The volumes are Jack L. DeBenedetti, Jr.: Brussels Sprouts and Artichoke Growing on the North Coast, and Charles Dick: Agricultural Regulation in Santa Cruz, 1930-1967. The DeBenedetti publication, featuring the commentary of the late Jack…

Shakespeare Santa Cruz was awarded nine Drama-Logue Critics Awards for its 1997 season. The coveted awards, presented each year for the past 21 years by the Hollywood-based weekly theater review and casting magazine Drama-Logue, recognize exceptional theater produced in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas during the previous year. This year’s awards ceremony…

Swim, bike, and run at the 8th Annual Skippy Triathlon, sponsored by UCSC intramural sports, on Saturday, March 7, at 8 a.m. at the East Field House pool. The event includes a 1,000-yard swim in the pool, a 6-mile mountain bike ride, and a 5.2-mile cross-country run. The cost is $15/person. For more information, call…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–In non-Western countries, the rise of the global economy has led to an explosion in manufacturing facilities with substandard working conditions, according to organizers planning a one-day conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The emergence of these so- called "sweatshops," which often rely on child labor, is altering family and community…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–One of Europe’s oldest universities, the 650-year-old Charles University of Prague, Czechoslovakia, has presented a University of California, Santa Cruz, professor with its highest honor. Pavel Machotka, professor emeritus of art and psychology at UCSC, was named the recipient of the degree of Doctor of Education honoris causa, bestowed on him, according to…

Thanks to a recent gift, undergraduates in the Environmental Studies Department have a new Regents’ Endowment to tap to support their field-study projects. Alice Cooley recently contributed to the Richard A. Cooley Award for undergraduate field study, which was established in memory of her husband, who was the founder and first chair of the environmental…

The University of California, which is embarked on its own aggressive and innovative academic outreach program, endorsed a plan announced earlier this month by President Clinton to promote college and school partnerships and to prepare low-income students for higher education. The president’s High Hopes initiative, a $140 million competitive grant program, is designed to raise…

History professor Pedro Castillo was quoted in the Mexican newspapers–Diario de Chihuahua and El Heraldo de Chihuahua in Chihuahua and El Universal and La Cronica in Mexicali–after he presented a series of talks on Mexican immigration, the Mexican American community, and the Latino vote this past December. He was also quoted in El Norte and…

Manuel Pastor, director of the Latin American and Latino studies program at UCSC, moderated a high-level panel discussion on race and poverty last week with members of the Advisory Board to the President’s Initiative on Race. Advisory Board members were in San Jose to conduct an evening community forum and a daylong meeting. Pastor moderated…

The UC Santa Cruz Transportation and Parking Services Office (TAPS) has added two links to its Web site that provide timely road condition reports. The Santa Cruz County Road Conditions report is updated several times a day during the peak of heavy storm periods and appears to provide the best information on Santa Cruz County…

"Sustainable Development for the Central Coast" is the focus of a forum on March 13 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey. Dr. Tapan Monroe, chief economist for PG&E, will open with the keynote address, and then groups will form to discuss the following questions: Where are we now in terms of sustainable development? Where would we…