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Swing bands, theater performances, and collaborative art projects are only a few of the entertainment options available at First Night Santa Cruz, a family-oriented New Year’s Eve celebration in downtown Santa Cruz. To make it all happen, First Night organizers need more than 600 volunteers. As one of the event sponsors, UCSC is offering an…

Police Chief Jan Tepper was invited to Washington, D.C., in November to participate in the White House Conference on Hate Crimes. President Clinton, Vice President Gore, Attorney General Reno, and several Cabinet secretaries presided over the meeting, which was attended by representatives from law enforcement, prosecutors, education, clergy, social service agencies, and a number of…

The University of California Board of Regents today (Friday, Nov. 21) voted 13 to 12, with one abstention, to authorize UC President Richard C. Atkinson to extend health care benefits to the same-sex domestic partners of UC employees and certain other family members who are financially interdependent. "This was the right decision by our Board…

UCSC employees have until Friday, November 21, to make changes to their benefits packages during this year’s Open Enrollment. Any changes employees would like to make to their health, vision, dental, DepCare, and TIP plans can only be made once a year, during the Open Enrollment period that started November 1 this year. Changes take…

The campus will hum with construction activity later this school year, as a number of major projects get under way in the upcoming spring and summer. Nine projects, including a new fitness center, apartments for students, improvements to the arts facilities, and a graduate commons and expanded bookstore, are under way or are scheduled to…

For Sale: ’93 Nissan Sentra, 5 sp., AC, Cruise, AM/FM Cassette, power steering. 108K miles. Original owner. $5,000 or best offer. Bridget or Christine, 425-3549 For sale: Volvo sedan, 1982. Excellent condition, one owner, $4,000. June Gordon. 425-2060.

Susan is a 35 year old manager who leads a new product development team in a large manufacturing company. She is very confident of her leadership abilities, in part because of her life experiences (she was college class president and captain of the women’s volleyball team) and because she seems to be valued and respected…

Jennifer Gonzalez: Assistant Professor of Art History Jennifer Gonzalez taught previously at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her focus is contemporary installation art, visual culture, semiotics, museums, and material culture studies. A former Whitney Museum of Art fellow, she has received numerous grants, including two from the Ford Foundation. She is the author of…

The lead story in the New York Times science section on November 11 featured several prominent biologists, including our own Burney Le Boeuf, discussing the extraordinarily deep dives of elephant seals, whales, and other marine mammals. A medical researcher "probably won’t believe" the extent to which a seal’s lungs collapse during its mile-deep forays underwater,…

Students practice with the University Orchestra in this 1994 photo. (Photo: Mickey Pfleger) Growth in the Music Department has not been limited to facilities. Along with the new Music Center, the department has been working on expanding its nationally recognized music program. This fall two related initiatives have been launched that will strengthen the department’s…

Earthquakes, endangered species, and Egyptian monuments are just a few of the subjects to be found on SlideCat, a new Web site supported by the University Library. SlideCat provides descriptions of the more than 200,000 slides stored in the library’s Slide Collection. Slides from the interdisciplinary collection are available to faculty and students for use…

"Democracy and Civil Society in South Africa: From Revolution to Multi-Ethnic Nation Building" is the title of a talk by Ari Sitas, professor of sociology and dean of social sciences at the University of Natal at Durban (South Africa), on Tuesday, November 18, at 12:30 p.m. in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. He will be available…