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The University of California Board of Regents has adopted a budget plan for 1998-99 that would restore faculty salaries to competitive levels, accommodate an additional 2,000 students, and continue to provide students with the classes they need to graduate in a timely fashion. In addition, UC budget director Larry Hershman said the university will seek…

Changhua Rich credits her academic success in part to her background, which includes working in what she calls "the real world" until she was 32 years old. "I have a strong sense of how people in the real world are going to respond," she said. "And I always ask myself 100 times how something is…

Youngsters from Aromas School joined their teacher Katy Stonebloom and UCSC administrators at the national conference of the Education Trust in Washington, D.C., where they discussed their collaboration on the bilingual children’s book Kids Around the University. During their visit, the children also toured the Capitol and the White House. Photo: Ottaway News Service

Currents online is now accepting classified ads from faculty and staff. Before submitting an ad, please read the policies and submittal procedure. For Sale: 1987 VW Cabriolet. All white with alloy wheels. Very good condition. 122K miles. Asking $3,900 or best offer. 429-9654. For Sale: Rossignol 4S 200 skis, Rossignol STS 190 skis, and Hart…

The Millennium Committee plans to hold two events during winter quarter to solicit input from the campus community. Faculty, staff, and students are invited to drop in at the Cowell Student Health Center Conference Room between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Tuesday, January 6, to discuss with members of the Millennium…

In a letter to the campus community, Julia Armstrong-Zwart, assistant chancellor for Human Resources, described proposed changes to UC’s electronic-mail policy. The policy has governed the use of faculty, staff, and administrative e-mail accounts on an interim basis since August 1996. It is proposed for full implementation, with the recent revisions, as soon as is…

Often, the most important experiences students have in college are the ones that take place outside classroom walls. That certainly seems true for 25 former UCSC students whose stories are told in a new book, Field Study and Life-Long Learning: A Research Project. The students all participated in the Merrill Field Program for Experiential Learning…

Global warming wasn’t making big headlines back in 1994, when UCSC economics doctoral candidate Changhua Sun Rich began her dissertation research. Rich was drawn to the subject in part by the issues of fairness that were being played out in the international arena. Since then, Rich’s work has placed her at the forefront of efforts…

Dear Colleagues: On November 21, 1997, the Board of Regents authorized President Atkinson to extend health care benefits to adults in a long-term, committed domestic relationship with a UC employee who are either same-sex domestic partners or precluded from marriage under California law because of a family relationship. We are in the process of formulating…

The joy, the triumph, the delight, the madness! The boundless, overflowing, bursting gladness, The vaporous exultation not to be confined! Ha! Ha! The animation of delight Which wraps me, like an atmosphere of light, And bears me as a cloud is borne by its own wind. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound The music of the…

Myrlie Evers-Williams will deliver keynote address at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on January 29 Civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams will deliver the keynote speech at the 14th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation. The event, which has been held on the UC Santa Cruz campus in past years, will take place at the…

Members of the Clerical and Allied Services Unit voted for a new exclusive representative in a recertification election held earlier this month. The Coalition of University Employees (CUE) received a majority of the votes in the November 5 vote count, winning the right to exclusively represent the unit systemwide. The unit had been represented by…