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Kelly Hemphill, a UCSC sociology student and assistant editor of the The Human Body, poses with one of the video’s stars–a graphic model used by psychologists to study touch patterns. This model shows the pattern most common among Americans (forearms are touched most frequently, the torso and neck least frequently). Models from other countries such…

A Farm and Garden apprentice uses a wheelbarrow to harvest weeds at the UCSC Farm. After a soggy winter, there’s nothing like the sights and sounds of spring to inspire the gardener in all of us. Come feed your inspiration during a free docent-led tour of the 25-acre UCSC Farm, where spring is literally bursting…

| | African American/Black | 219 | 223 | -1.8 | | Chicano/Mexican American | 898 | 826 | 8.7 | | Filipino/Filipino American | 347 | 295 | 17.6 | | American Indian/Alaskan Native | 96 | 82 | 17.1 | | Latino/Other Spanish American | 347 | 333 | 4.2 | | Euro-American…

A Kathakali dancer Each year, the Alumni Association brings an outstanding scholar or teacher to UCSC for one quarter as part of its Distinguished Visiting Professor program. This year, the program is dancing to a new tune. Instead of a single person, UCSC will host six: all actors and musicians of the Kathakali Kalakeli performance…

All alumni, current and prospective students, and their families and friends are invited to visit UCSC for the Banana Slug Spring Fair on Saturday, April 18. Last year, more than 4,250 people attended the fair. This year’s campus open house features a faculty lecture, alumni reunions, tours of the colleges and special facilities, student support-services…

Last year, defaults on federally guaranteed education loans cost U.S. taxpayers $2.5 million. In an effort to cut these losses, Congress enacted a law authorizing student loan guarantors to withhold a portion of defaulted borrowers’ wages to repay their loans. The California Student Aid Commission, the state’s student loan guarantor, announced recently that it will…

Alumna Holly Edde spent part of spring quarter ’97, her final quarter at UCSC, as a first-grade teacher’s aide at Live Oak School through the Oakes Serves program. During his student career at UCSC, senior Javier Jimenez has balanced his academic course work with volunteer experiences. He’s educated people about the AIDS virus for the…

Except for the Whole Earth Restaurant, campus eateries are closed over the spring break. The Whole Earth is closed on Monday, March 30, and open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday-Friday, March 31-April 3. They take phone-ahead orders at (408) 426-8255. Discover how easy and rewarding it is to get and stay in shape. The…

Historian Gail Hershatter has received the American Historical Association’s 1998 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for her book, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (University of California Press, 1997). In announcing the award, the association noted, "This study of prostitution in Shanghai illuminates not only the various ways the institution is constructed but also…

UCSC Extension assistant dean Dale Stansbury was invited to testify before the State Select Committee on Economic Development in Sacramento last week. At the request of the committee chair, Senator John Vasconcellos, Stansbury addressed the economic impact of the worker shortage in the high-tech industry, focusing on proposals to address the problem and what UCSC…

Lise Bixler, director of UCSC’s Child Care Services, celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Children’s Center last year with Ivy Clarke, a preschooler in the center’s Child Development Program. The birthday celebration coincided with a visit by Chancellor Greenwood and director of housing services Jerry Walters, who participated in the annual "Chancellor Comes to Lunch…

A student dance troupe performing folkloric dances representative of various regions in Mexico is the subject of an upcoming exhibit of photographs at UCSC. The exhibit, "Los Mejicas: On Stage and Behind the Scenes," will be displayed at La Galeria de Casa Latina at Merrill College from April 6 through 29. The exhibit will feature…