Public Affairs

Ocean policy leaders from around the country will come to Monterey June 11-12 for the first National Ocean Conference in 25 years. President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and several cabinet secretaries plan to attend. Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood will serve on a panel focusing on Oceans and Commerce, one of four main areas to be addressed…

Enjoy an afternoon of poetry and music in the Alan Chadwick Garden at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Saturday, June 6, from noon until 2 p.m. The event, "Poetry and Music in the Garden," features readings by six accomplished poets. Internationally acclaimed acoustic guitarist Martin Simpson will also perform as part of the…

Patricia Zavella, a professor in the Community Studies Department, was one of 40 scholars invited to participate in a recent conference that was part of President Clinton’s Initiative on Race, One America. Titled "Social Science Knowledge on Race, Racism, and Race Relations," the conference was sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the White…

SANTA CRUZ, CA-Wanted for rent: a private room and bath with continental breakfast, a weekly cleaning service, and cable television–all at a very affordable price. Sound like an impossible dream in Santa Cruz’s competitive rental market? Not for 38 UC Santa Cruz students. These students, participants in the university’s Housing Partnership Program, found lodging at…

SANTA CRUZ, CA–What was the world like in Jesus’ time? What did his parables mean to the people who heard them? Gildas Hamel, a lecturer in French at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will address these questions in his upcoming lecture, "Jesus: Stories from Galilee." His talk is the last of the 1997-98 Humanities…

SANTA CRUZ, CA-Members of the UC Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz communities may listen to music, enjoy free food, and browse for information on volunteer opportunities at the Unity Festival on Friday, June 5. The festival, free and open to the public, takes place at the UCSC Student Center from 2 to 6 p.m. In…

Students who participated in East Side’s Saturday College took their final exams in early May. This young woman is taking a test for her SAT preparation course. Saturday College also offered a special component for parents, who were invited to learn how to access information about higher education on the World Wide Web during the…

More than 27,000 high school seniors are planning to attend the University of California as freshmen in the fall, up by 1,331 students or nearly 5 percent over last year. This is based on Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) responses from high school seniors who had previously been admitted to one of the UC…

The award-winning staff of City on a Hill Press and Primer. SANTA CRUZ, CA–Student journalists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, produced some of the best work in the region and country last year, according to two leading journalism associations. The two organizations presented multiple awards to the student- run City on a Hill…

KZSC has extended its 25th Anniversary Pledge Drive until Monday, June 1. The campus radio station, located at 88.1 FM on the radio dial, has also doubled its fund-raising goal to $50,000. KZSC had orginally planned to end its drive on Friday, May 22. This year’s fund-raising drive, which started May 11, marks the station’s…

Astronomer Stan Woosley has been all over the news lately, most recently commenting on a spectacular gamma-ray burst detected in an extremely distant galaxy; as a leading theoretical astrophysicist, Woosley was on a panel of experts assembled by NASA to discuss the findings, and was quoted in Time and Newsweek magazines, the New York Times,…

"A Mediterranean Victorian Medley" is the theme of this year’s Women’s Club Garden Tour, which will take place on Sunday, May 31, from noon to 4 p.m. Four unique Santa Cruz gardens will be showcased, and a reception at the Arboretum will follow from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Rita Pister Endowed Scholarship…